#eyestealing

Welcome to scenic Isola Radiale, Kousuke!

You will be housed in CONDO 428.

You will retain the ability to use your stealing eyes up to five times daily and will also be allowed to have your pet hamster with you.

Given the legend of Medusa being true, is it too difficult to believe in ghosts? Ayano isn’t sure what she’d qualify herself as. Something that shouldn’t exist and yet does-- the way this world works has always been a mystery, and with the Heat Haze as her afterlife, it’s almost as if she’s come back from the dead.

There hadn’t been time to say many goodbyes. She departed without a spoken word, and did what she felt was best. Maybe that was her biggest mistake thinking on it now, but she couldn’t erase what she’s done. If she told them what she planned, they would’ve tried to stop her, she knew that. That was love, a familial bond that couldn’t be broken no matter what. Even now, as she was gone, lost to mist, they loved her. And continued on her tradition in her name.

Being in this place now, there was opportunity for a reunion. Feet planted at the edge of the Savior’s Respite, her sight is focused on the beauty below-- a memorial for the past and how things used to be. It reminded her of a lot. The flowers made her mourn what had happened even if it wasn’t worth regretting over and over. She still continued to question: what was the right choice? Maybe she’ll never find out.

Her focus is faltered at the sound of someone approaching, body partially turning to face them. It made her eyes widen instantly. Her heart swelled. It couldn’t be-- could it? Her eyes take a moment to scan his appearance. That face... Those eyes... That hoodie... Yes. Without a doubt, it was him.

“Seto...?”

Her voice was quiet.

     onyx eyes swivel to the side--- done out of a sense of awkwardness and straight-up social anxiety. is there anything shintaro can do that won’t look oddly creepy and suspicious? he’s beginning to doubt it.

          “ you wouldn’t know . . . what a decent birthday present for ayano would be, would you? ”

     he’s hoping that seto--- kind and strong and considerate seto--- was the one person who wouldn’t find this suspicious, that if his analyzing eyes looked into shintaro’s intentions, it’d be anything but vile.

She hasn’t met any of her roommates yet. For the better half of her first few days here, she’s been something of an ethereal presence in the condo - namely, she really only left her room to go out for an indiscernible amount of time a day, and when she came back, she didn’t leave her room. But something about this isolation move didn’t feel right. A certain special something was missing.

So that morning, having realized she didn’t have internet connection, she went out and bought at CD and a CD player - something she hadn’t seen since she was much younger, and even then it was a vague memory of something that fell out of her parent’s junk drawer - and a small speaker to hook it up to.

At which point she returned home, went straight to her room, got everything hooked up. And played one song on repeat while she laid on her bedroom floor and stared at the ceiling.

Bill laughed loudly, the chiming sound of his bricks clattering through the air around them. “THAT’S BECAUSE IT IS... DREADFULLY SO. ALTHOUGH I AM SURPRISED, YOU KNOW ANYTHING MORE ABOUT INNOCENCE THAN HOW TO TEAR IT INTO SHREDS.” His eye squinted a tad. “SCAN AWAY, GET EDUCATED ABOUT THIS PLACE... THIS IS SIMPLE MATERIA, THE ONE THAT YOU GOT TAUGHT ABOUT IN THE FIRST STAGES OF YOUR EDUCATION... AS SIMPLE AS IT IS AS DESCTRUCTIVE IT TENDS TO BE THOUGH... JUST ONE WORD AND THE PURE LIFE-ENERGY EATS OUT OF THE PALM OF YOUR HAND, READY TO CORRUPT TO YOUR WILL.

I GUESS THAT IS, WHY SO MANY FORCES ENJOY THIS KIND OF REALM SO VERY MUCH. IT’S SO EASY TO MANIPULATE.”

Likewise. Well, I’ve been pretty busy at the shopping center these past few days. You’d be surprised by how many people have been ordering flowers for family and loved ones lately!

[Kano nodded  bit] 

Hey! It’s nice to see you here too, Kano!

[The cat-eyed male gave off a small smile, and sat on the couch.] Haven't seen you in forever~