(pc) -> sousuke

[siffriend]

[ Sousuke had wanted to speak later, for whatever reason, and so

Siffrin has been practicing their "walking" with flings. Keeping mostly to the tea room, though they begin to throw themselves around in the banquet hall, which is where Sousuke can find them. Zip. Zip. Zoom. There they go, and then-- flouncing as they try to land on a table, up and over.

(...

You think the stairs might be easier. Maybe. Would it be worth it to try? No. Maybe not.) ]

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[arbalestrier]

[Once everything settles down somewhat and people are no longer bleeding, Sousuke wanders out of the tea room, although he instinctively quiets his steps at the commotion in the banquet hall. After peeking out from the doorway, he walks in once he realizes what--or rather, who--he's looking at when he watches the fumbled landing.]

Siffrin, it's me.

[...]

What are you doing?

[siffriend]

[ (Oh, it's Sousuke.)

The knife pauses, wiggling on its handle before hopping closer. ]

Practicing. I'd like to go upstairs before I can't anymore, so I'm trying to... go up.

[ ... Sort of. ]

It's harder than you think. [ Difficult, being a little carving knife. ] Hi.

[arbalestrier]

[Internally, all he can think of is the impossibility of a knife moving on its own rather than the difficulty of it. It's something he'd been putting out of his mind when they had that impromptu meeting, but he can't ignore it now that Siffrin is actively talking about it.

His meager imagination is too undeveloped to even picture what it would be like to be an inanimate object, so he focuses on the other point.]

Upstairs... [Hmm...] The workshop?

[siffriend]

[ A shake... of the blade? Head? Uh. It turns from side to side. That's probably a headshake. Anyway, Sousuke should die and get his own item. ]

Observatory. I miss looking at star charts.

[arbalestrier]

[Even if the gesture wasn't relatively straightforward to interpret, saying it outright makes it pretty obvious his guess was wrong. It's a hard life(?) for those on the other side, so he resolves not to die here.

Useless meta aside, he looks thoughtful for a moment.]

I see. Then let's go.

[siffriend]

[ Yippee!!!!! Stars time.

Siffrin will remain as still as they were earlier that day, when Sousuke was helping Ayaka. No cuts for people who don't deserve them. ]

[arbalestrier]

[He'll interpret that as a tacit agreement, so he takes Siffrin and starts walking over. He doesn't find silence awkward, but he had been wanting to ask something before he got distracted by the odd sight of a knife bouncing around the room. When they make it to the stairs, he speaks.]

...Did something happen while you were over there?

[He can't quite bring himself to say dead, if only because their current state is nothing like the death he's used to, where conversations with the deceased are purely one-sided.]

[siffriend]

[ The silence is nice, isn't it? Siffrin often keeps it himself; he prefers to listen to others, to answer if asked a question or if they've got something to say, but...

... there's been people, here, who they make an effort to keep a conversation going as long as possible with. Sousuke isn't one, but they don't dislike the man any. He's been fairly kind. ]

Um. What makes you ask?

[ Because a lot has happened. ]