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bloodseal_soul

Array 131 // Video

Mar 04, 2010 20:57

[The sun's setting on the crumbling stones of a graveyard, and Al strolls through the graves, slow and steady, before crouching before one. He reaches out with gloved fingers, his breath puffing past his face in a soft, visible cloud, before he shuts his eyes as he touches the surface of the stone ( Read more... )

letting go ain't so easy, salute to the lost

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[Video] willdateforyen March 5 2010, 04:00:08 UTC

...Did those people die here or...?

[Video] bloodseal_soul March 5 2010, 04:05:59 UTC

No, they're not dead. They've gone home.

[It doesn't seem to cause him any pain to talk about it. Instead, he sounds wistful.]

[Video] willdateforyen March 5 2010, 04:08:05 UTC

That's not so bad depending on their circumstances.

[Video] bloodseal_soul March 5 2010, 04:12:24 UTC

Some of them, yeah.

Certain people probably aren't quite as lucky.

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motherofalchemy March 5 2010, 04:13:13 UTC

Alphonse...?

bloodseal_soul March 5 2010, 04:17:24 UTC

Hi, mom.

... you know, I'm sure he'll be back again.

voice; sanninlegacy March 5 2010, 05:53:55 UTC

Your dad was here?

Re: voice; bloodseal_soul March 5 2010, 06:07:00 UTC

[So was yours. See if you can find his name there.]

For a couple of months, yeah. I never grew up with him around, so it was nice.

Re: voice; sanninlegacy March 5 2010, 18:15:55 UTC

[He doesn't bother looking. It's too painful.]

Mine was too... for a week when I was here.

I never had him 'round either.

Re: voice; bloodseal_soul March 5 2010, 18:27:56 UTC

Yeah... you lost him early on, didn't you?

Mr. Minato was a great hero where you're from... and when he talked to me he was always kind. He's intelligent, and protective. I felt safe whenever he was around. Like even if something came for us, with him watching over the situation, we would all come out all right.

[He pauses, as if unsure if he should go on, whether Naruto will want to hear about him.]

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[Voice] endureandwait March 5 2010, 05:58:59 UTC

Al....you okay?

[Voice] bloodseal_soul March 5 2010, 06:08:14 UTC

Uh-huh.

I'm just... remembering, you know?

[You're there too, Winry.]

Because they can't.

[Voice] endureandwait March 5 2010, 06:18:17 UTC

...Yeah. I know.

I'm here, if you want to talk about it, Al.

[She may or may not have noticed that. It's still hard to take in that she was apparently here before.]

[Voice] bloodseal_soul March 5 2010, 19:34:53 UTC

[He hesitates a bit before shifting -- the feed catches the rustle of his coat and a soft sigh of leather as he adjusts his gloves, as if he's thinking it over. His voice sounds a little... heavy.]

It's just that... I've been here so long now, that... there are only a couple of people who remember as much as I do. Ms. Unohana and Vincent. And there are people who have been here so many times, that...

I've sort of... forgotten what they'll remember, and what they won't. So much has happened that I get things mixed up. I'll start a conversation with someone I used to know, and then... realize they don't know me half as well. So I'll backtrack, forget, need to repeat things, and sometimes I'll miss things that are important.

Sometimes I feel like the rock in the river that isn't taken along with the rest of the current.

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sauceytomato March 5 2010, 08:25:59 UTC

Al...

bloodseal_soul March 5 2010, 19:36:50 UTC

[Sasuke's name's there, too, up higher in the list, a couple of scoremarks next to it.]

Yeah?

sauceytomato March 5 2010, 20:51:28 UTC

Do you...mind if I ask where that is?

[He wants to mark graves for his parents.]

bloodseal_soul March 5 2010, 21:03:57 UTC

... it's behind the church, near Vincent's place.

[Near Whipstaff.]

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