hadriel | duel 2.「video」

「Good morning, Hadriel. How's your day? Hopefully better than this guy's!

Said guy appears on the little screen of your devices, drenched and with semi covered in... what is that? Foam? (yes, yes, before you ask, that spiky hairdo is totally flatten and looking rather normal...)

Why you see, someone decided to finally do laundry.

Someone who never, in his whole life, had touched a washing machine... and never an alien looking one. Well, he had to at least try, Yugi made it look so easy (or his mom!)! Plus, getting new clothes from the stores at any opportunity given, can only be a good idea for so long before the pile starts... well, you know, pilling up!

And that's why you see on the background (and if you happen to be around)... this humongous amount of foam coming out from one of those new houses. The big one, btw, because this small guy needs all that space, sure...

Why didn't this thing come with instructions... HE'S A PRO AT READING INSTRUCTIONS!

Good Ra, help him...」

Hmm... I... 「 This is hard. 」 I seem to require some... assistance, here...

Thank you.

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Ah, too bad... I could have owed you a favor. Hmm, you mean the little robots that clean all around?

I don't have much uses for favors.

[Unless it's Tranquility's, and she finally asks him to make good on his gift. Which she'll get around to... someday.]

Oh, yes, I am talking about the cute little robots. Cats like to hitch rides on them, too. They are quite charming!

Gonna have to find one then. And a cat.

「Shhh, he likes cute things... Just look at Yugi. Yeah, why not.」

And you are?

And it is a fortunate thing that we are in abundance of cats.

[Just imagine the possibilities.]

I am called Ravine.

Really? Haven't seen one yet.

「Are you keeping them all to yourself? Are you that cat lady?」

Cool name.「Birb... but, is it really her name, or is she like Whistler? You know what? He likes that name he won't question it, for now.」 I'm Atem.

Edited (Tagging from phone so hard sorry ) 2017-10-12 13:58 (UTC)

You mean you haven't seen them? They're around. Some must simply be more shy than others.

[At that, she sends the image of a strange feline to Atem's phone. One bearing four green eyes and three ears.

[It is, in fact, not really much of a name, or her own for that matter. It's just easier for now, especially when introductions are so rarely needed for her to know a person.] Would that be anything like the deity?

「WHt is thasdlkf?!」

... that's new...

「A cat is still a cat, right?

Oh, but his voice is a little different this time, he's a little bit surprised, maybe a little hopeful. No one he knew had made the connection so far!」

You've heard of him.

Hardly. He has been around longer than you, by only a few months.

[Still, the cat has murdercave seniority.

[She chuckles, amused.]

I certainly have. He was a creator, born from nothing. [i.e. Nun.]

Touché.

「Can you hear his smile, Ravine, can you? YEahhhh.」

Next thing you're gonna tell me is that you do know what a Duel Disk is...

「LOOK, HE HAS TOO.」

Alas, I am not quite that all-knowing.

[Only to an extent, but she tries to keep that reigned in. People tend to get uncomfortable when they find out that you know more about them than they realize.]

Damn!

「OH, COME ON! there is a snap of fingers in the background, and he definitely doesn't sound mad or anything of the sort, not even disappointed, just, damn! He was so close! Only, no, not really, not even remotely.」

Where are you from anyway?

「No problem, gurl, we can always go back to ancient history.」

[So close... and no cigar.]

My city has many names, but the one that is most commonly known would be Jerusalem. That is where I was born, anyway.

[There's a slight hint of it still in her accent, even after all these millennia.]

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「While the most modern name would have been completely lost to him, it is actually the way she says it that calls his attention. Many names, huh?」

Do you mean... Rushalimum...?

「His own pronunciation of an already dead language rolling effortlessly off his tongue.」

Edited (now that i finally slept!) 2017-10-18 05:13 (UTC)

Ah, yes! That is what they called it in old Egypt. Although I suppose that is why you would know.

[Just guessing. No psychic prowess required.]

「No, yeah, it's quite obvious. Plus he's the one with the frigging Egyptian God's name.」

Yeah, I guess I know some stuff. But that explains why you know some stuff too...

「Eh, yeah. It makes sense.」

[Maybe if Ravine did always avoid using her real name like a freaking weirdo...]

Imagine that. We know stuff.

[Also maybe teasing a little.]

「Oh sush...」

Just imagine if we didn't.

「Hey, he can always tease back.」

You live long enough, you tend to pick up on a stuff or two.

[Some words, coming from someone who doesn't really sound that old.]

I'd say.

「He has to wonder. But see him not asking, why would he, it's not like she's like him.」

Have you been stuck in here long enough to pick up a thing or two?

Here?

Let's see... Suppose that it has been roughly seven months now, so that would be enough time to know enough things without knowing everything.

Like what? What is it that you would have liked to know when you just arrived that you know now?

Ah. For one, although I have always been aware of the existence of other worlds, it is a first that I have ever walked through one. The people here, from so many different threads, are rather interesting.

Threads?

The little details that change the course of a lifeline -- some intricate, some simple and barely noticeable. Threads.

Wait -- can you see them somehow?

「Sounds like it? Like, how else, how do people know about their own threads for them to be a conversation topic?」

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