Forty-Eighth Explosion

[deusexhormones]

[Voiced]

...Y'know, there's been a lot of kidnappings lately, hasn't there? I mean there's been bigger drop-offs before and such, but in the last week or two there's been a lot. Thing is, I mean I hadn't been here all that long last summer but I seem to remember something similar happening last summer. I don't think we had a calender though so I'm not sure if it's the exact same time or anything.

...Whatever. Stupid aliens.

[Pause, grunt, and then some clothes rustling] Doesn't look like rain today.... Oi! Rena! Shiki! Porcupine! Any and all members of the SOS-Brigade! Summer's no good if you don't enjoy it properly, so in the absence of a public pool we're going swimming at the main lake! [Another pause, and then a sigh] When it warms up or something. It's still muddy-looking outside.

...Jeez. [And then there's the sound of some clothes rustling again before he stands up and clicks this thing off]

Comments

[cladinthedark.livejournal.com]

Hmmm... The same time last year? Perhaps there is a schedule even to this.

[god-is-a-dude.livejournal.com]

I guess it's possible or something.

[cladinthedark.livejournal.com]

I haven't seen much of a pattern to the kidnappings, but... perhaps I simply haven't been looking at a long enough view.

[god-is-a-dude.livejournal.com]

How long've you been here, anyway?

[cladinthedark.livejournal.com]

Since December last year.

[god-is-a-dude.livejournal.com]

There was a calender then? Huh.

Also what's with all that armor? You some kinda' black knight or something?

[cladinthedark.livejournal.com]

No, but since the calendar was implemented I was able to count back accurately.

It's a long story. In short, I'm used to it... and I'm more a mage than a knight.

[god-is-a-dude.livejournal.com]

You're used to wearing ridiculously heavy looking aromor.

[cladinthedark.livejournal.com]

Yes I am. [He finds your disbelief amusing, Haruki.]

[god-is-a-dude.livejournal.com]

...That's retarded. So you're a black mage that wears armor? That breaks like every convention ever unless you're the arch-villain, and you're not laughing at me glaring, so you already break that one. Jeez.

[cladinthedark.livejournal.com]

Old story conventions are for the predictable.

[god-is-a-dude.livejournal.com]

You're the one looking like they just stepped out of a King Author story. I bet you only have one name and it's all imposing and such.

[cladinthedark.livejournal.com]

[He has no idea who "King Arthur" is, but the kid's kind of amusing him.] Well, partly true. I don't know how imposing "Golbez" is to you.

[Technically, of course, he does have two names, but as he doesn't go by "Theodore Harvey" anymore...]

[god-is-a-dude.livejournal.com]

...Yeah, point proven. You're clearly an arch-villain, though you're probably all attractive under the armor or something.