thirty-first breath ✧ voice/action

[musubi]

Saggitarius
• 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?

Comments

[Voice]

[ingrate.livejournal.com]

Usually in that case it's that the original town inhabitants have become zombies. Sometimes overnight. Like if one bites you it might turn you into a zombie too.

[Voice]

[markofthewise]

... so it's like a disease, then.

[Voice]

[ingrate.livejournal.com]

Kinda. One you don't usually recover from.

[Voice]

[markofthewise]

So you have to kill them. [...] That's not like any disease I've heard of.

[Voice]

[ingrate.livejournal.com]

It's more the stuff of scary stories than anything. But you never know here.

[Voice]

[markofthewise]

Yeah, this place does kind of specialize in stuff that isn't supposed to exist.

[Voice]

[ingrate.livejournal.com]

Not to our benefit, usually.

Honestly, I'm a little surprised I haven't seen any zombies since my arrival.

[Voice]

[markofthewise]

Don't say that. Now it will probably happen.

[Voice]

[ingrate.livejournal.com]

Oh you're right.

Whoops.

[Voice]

[markofthewise]

Yeah, well, when it happens? You're getting blamed. I have your name.

[Voice]

[ingrate.livejournal.com]

Weak.

[Voice]

[markofthewise]

That's how it goes. You may want to consider using an alias in the future.

[Voice]

[ingrate.livejournal.com]

It's not like you made it any better.

What if you saying they might do something with it is what made it worse?

[Voice]

[markofthewise]

Me saying that would discourage them from doing it, otherwise they'd just look unoriginal.

[Voice]

[ingrate.livejournal.com]

Since when was that a thing the Malnosso actually cared about?

[Voice]

[markofthewise]

It could be. They're weird people.

[Voice]

[ingrate.livejournal.com]

I guess that's true.