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saveourearth2018-10-03 06:31 pm
iamnotgod) wrote in 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!]
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!]
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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?"
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Walter huffs lightly - then smiles.
"In the meantime, if you ever want to pick it up the hard way, I'll help you practice."
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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?"
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"I have no way of knowing, so, you might as well?"
Just don't expect to drag him along.
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"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.
Rolling, rolling, rolling... also LOL meta.
Or rather, he hopes that covers it.
;)
He checks the kettle, goes about the process for getting more tea started.
"Is it a sketchbook of her sketches, or one for yours?"
... Now I have to figure out what he said. |D
"It's one for me to draw in, you-"
The next word that comes out is very clearly a Japanese one. There's an even chance as to whether it's a swearword, though.
russell might ask later, but not right this moment
Under the mocking banter, there's a hint of concern.
"But, uh, are you already doing that by accident, then?
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In other words, it was deliberate on his part. Only a translation-fail, nothing to see here...!
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"And that one, I did understand, but I didn't. What's cheekybones supposed to mean?"
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"Possibly to suggest that you're the cheeky one here."
Which might not always be true, mind - but he can live with that.
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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.