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thirty-first breath ✧ voice/action

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• The body under the couch is starting to smell.
• Quit whining about the pain, it only makes it worse for everyone else.
• Stop smoking. Or start. Whichever you're not doing.

[Isamu is sitting outside the house, a cigarette in one hand. Every so often he tilts his head to the side, as though hearing a voice that only he can hear. He didn't smoke before now, and he still doesn't really care for it, but he felt a need to start today.

His journal lies open in his lap.]

I don't know what this place wants from me sometimes. No one does, I know.

Guess it's about that time again, huh?

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Hey... I wasn't done with that.

[That's about as far as his argument goes, however.]

You are now.

[... and then, out of horrible, morbid curiosity (he just wants to know why people do it, okay?), he lifts the cigarette to his own lips and inhales probably a bit harder than he really should...

... and promptly starts coughing.]

[That earns him a snort from Isamu.]

Idiot.

And anyway, if you wanted one you could've just asked.

[It takes him a moment to stop coughing long enough to speak.]

And people enjoy doing that?

[He shrugs.]

It soothes the nerves or whatever. Plus it's addicting.

All the more reason not to do it.

[He knows he's already got a bit of a problem with his drinking and he is not going to be adding to that.]

But what made you decide to start? I thought you didn't like it either.

I dunno, it's kinda weird.

Like I woke up this morning and decided it would be a good idea.

...Well, nah. I knew it would be a bad idea, but I wanted to do it anyway.

If you wanted to try something that you knew would be a bad idea, I would've been happy to take you to Good Spirits instead.

[The smell of alcohol is far more tolerable. :|]

Nah, it was a pretty specific want, you know.

[He shrugs.]

Makes the voices easier to listen to, anyhow.

Voices?

[That's sending up warning flags in his mind-- he knows quite well from personal experience that hearing voices in one's head is usually not a good sign at all.]

Yeah, I figure it's just the usual Malnosso thing.

It's a new thing, though. Kinda bothersome.

[Isamu will find Richard bending down to stare very intently into his eyes without so much as a word. Hmm, they're both still the same color, at least, and Isamu's voice doesn't sound odd like it did with Noah...]

Uh.

[Blinking back.]

Do I look funny now? I checked in the mirror earlier.

No, you look exactly the same.

[And he sounds almost confused by that as he settles down next to his friend.]

Is there anything different about me?

[The goat doesn't count, because goats are awesome and there is nothing weird about wanting to bring a goat home, okay.]

Not that I can see physically, no.

Same girly hair as always.

Do you think I should get it cut?

[It's... actually a serious question. He hasn't trimmed it in a while and it's starting to become obvious.]

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It's your hair, man. I'm not gonna tell you what to do with it.

[Just tease you about it until you figure it out on your own.]

You don't have any opinion at all?

My opinion is that if it gets long enough to get caught in your ass you should probably cut it for safety's sake.

Now that you mention it, long hair wouldn't look bad on you either. Perhaps a ponytail...

Ahaha... Nah. Not my thing.

[Too late, Isamu, he's already trying to pull your hair back into one to see how it would look.]

...Knock that off.

[Richard laughs.]

It really would suit you, you know.

If I wanted it in a ponytail, it would be in a pony tail.

[He would turn you to his ways. Best kill him now.]

Wow, that wasn't subtle at all.

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