Fifth

[akapeanut]

[Considering the whole non-permanence of death thing, not to mention the closets, George isn't too worried about her track record with pets. And after all, she kept her frog for a long time! Like, two years!

It might be that overconfidence that made fate decide to fuck with her, though.]

Hey. Uh, if anybody finds a yellowish-orangeish frog about [She gestures.] this big? That's, uh, mine. So if you can just put him in a box or something, I'll come get him.

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[akapeanut.livejournal.com]

[But George knows what "maybe" means in Apathetic.]

What? What's wrong?

[second-first.livejournal.com]

...It's a lot of responsibility.

[Never having had parents, that isn't just Rei repeating what she's heard. She really means it.]

[akapeanut.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but eventually they're just part of the family, or whatever.

[second-first.livejournal.com]

[Rei is quiet a moment, then turns the device to pan the camera around her room (http://karyx.spectrumvoid.net/images/room.jpg). Maybe that will speak for itself.]

[akapeanut.livejournal.com]

[...]

Dogs don't mind if it's messy.

[Okay she knows that was lame.]

[second-first.livejournal.com]

I don't mind either.

[A pause.]

But it's not good for them. [Or for her, being the implication.]

[akapeanut.livejournal.com]

You could...work on it.

[She's a little worried now.]

[second-first.livejournal.com]

Yes.

[akapeanut.livejournal.com]

And I can help you clean up, I guess.

[Not that she was ever the neat one in her family. She just let her mom take care of that crap.]

[second-first.livejournal.com]

[Though her neutral expression doesn't change, Rei does redden slightly.]

...It's okay.

[akapeanut.livejournal.com]

Hey, I know you uh...had a lot of shit to deal with back home. Don't worry about it.

[Read: don't be embarrassed, I didn't mean it that way.]

[second-first.livejournal.com]

[She nods slightly.

....]

I didn't have parents.

[Which is meant more to explain why she doesn't clean up after herself than anything else.]

[akapeanut.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry.

[She looks away, awkward. She only realized how much her parents meant once she died, but she still doesn't know what it'd be like to not have them at all.]

[second-first.livejournal.com]

[Rei kind of notices she made it awkward so she attempts a save.]

I have only been alive for two years.

[...Didn't really help did it?]

[akapeanut.livejournal.com]

...What.

[second-first.livejournal.com]

This soul was implanted in this body two years before I died.

[akapeanut.livejournal.com]

So your body was...someone else before that?

[second-first.livejournal.com]

It was empty. A replacement vessel.

[akapeanut.livejournal.com]

Uh...

So it was...dead?

[second-first.livejournal.com]

No.

It had no soul.

[akapeanut.livejournal.com]

[O...kay.]

You know, I'm beginning to think, what with that giant fucking statue of you and all, that you were really important.

[second-first.livejournal.com]

Corpse.

[akapeanut.livejournal.com]

Can we just pretend it was a statue?

[She's dealt with dead bodies, she just can't quite handle a giant one.]

[second-first.livejournal.com]

Okay.

[akapeanut.livejournal.com]

[Fidget.]

Your world still freaks me out a little. I know that's probably rude or something but...

[Well, she's embarrassed enough at being freaked out without worrying about the rudeness.]