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iamnotgod ([personal profile] iamnotgod) wrote in [community profile] saveourearth2018-10-03 06:31 pm

Half time goes by, suddenly you're wise

Date: October 6th, 2018
Characters: Walter Weekes; anyone who wants to bug the birthday boy!




A year before, and he might not have paid attention to the date on the calendar, with how he tried to keep himself busy.

Oh, he never forgot it; he'd just never asked for anything spectacular as a gift. Close friends either found out the date through casual conversation or ferreted the information out somehow on their own, but his family had never thrown lavish parties and he'd never wanted one.

(Haley had gotten one, once, once she'd chosen her degree back in London. Everyone involved had agreed afterwards to Never Speak of it Again.)

But he found the day special for a separate reason - or perhaps the same one, if people considered "discovering who you were" to be a form of rebirth.

What with what he now knew as a Numbered, though - that this day, six years ago, had been the activation of his first Echo/flashback/remnant of another's memory - it was all the more surreal.

[This is a post for Network communications, threadings for birthday shenanigans at the flat, and one (1) bike run in the evening!]
spaghettimonster: (HUMAN: COLLEGE)

[personal profile] spaghettimonster 2018-11-03 10:01 pm (UTC)(link)
"Huh. That sounds useful."

Russell considers the mostly-empty tea cup in his hand, swirls it around and considers the reflections. There's a lot of opportunities that open a little wider with knowing extra languages, and he's never had the head for it. He offers a crooked smile.

"Can I sign up for those memories, instead of monster tea parties?"
spaghettimonster: (HUMAN: BONE)

[personal profile] spaghettimonster 2018-11-04 08:47 pm (UTC)(link)
"Ughh."

After another sip at his tea, Russell rolls his eyes and elaborates beyond just the complaining groan.

"I have enough to practice. Have you heard this rumor, Pinewood's looking for extras in a few weeks? I'm thinking - what if film is the break I need?"
spaghettimonster: (HUMAN: EYEROLL)

[personal profile] spaghettimonster 2018-11-06 08:08 am (UTC)(link)
The eyes just keep on rolling, and Russell pushes up from the table in search of more tea.

"Oh, never mind. I know you know (almost) nothing of the arts... I'll ask someone else."

Don't worry, he expects someone else will drag Walter along. The player has skimmed that log and the meta-knowledge is leaking.
spaghettimonster: (RUSSELL 4)

;)

[personal profile] spaghettimonster 2018-11-07 03:38 pm (UTC)(link)
"Very different," Russell agrees. "It's good you recognize it. Though..."

He checks the kettle, goes about the process for getting more tea started.

"Is it a sketchbook of her sketches, or one for yours?"
spaghettimonster: (HUMAN: EYEROLL)

russell might ask later, but not right this moment

[personal profile] spaghettimonster 2018-11-08 04:42 pm (UTC)(link)
"Now, I didn't understand that, but I think I understood it well enough."

Under the mocking banter, there's a hint of concern.

"But, uh, are you already doing that by accident, then?
spaghettimonster: (HUMAN: EYEROLL)

[personal profile] spaghettimonster 2018-11-10 06:44 am (UTC)(link)
Concern, totally cancelled, it's just amused annoyance here. Russell gives Walter a look, and finishes stirring the newest cup.

"And that one, I did understand, but I didn't. What's cheekybones supposed to mean?"
spaghettimonster: (MMHMM.)

[personal profile] spaghettimonster 2018-11-11 04:22 pm (UTC)(link)
"Yeah, alright."

It's true often enough...

Even if the truer thing today is that they're both being cheeky buggers and playing some witticism game. But's too early for him to have any real chance at winning, especially with other languages throwing him off, so Russell takes comfort from the warmth of the tea.