Sixtieth Rebirth [Video]

[neverquitedies]

Two years.

[A small pause- Yuca looks down at the PCD, fiddling with some of the buttons.]

It's something to look back on, I suppose.

[He's quiet, almost vulnerable. Yuca bites his lower lip and looks away. He doesn't care. He's never cared. People were just here for a short time before they died, and took all of their feelings with them.

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[soulcontracts]

And what else, exactly, were you expecting, Herr Collabell?

[neverquitedies]

I don't know.

[Quietly.]

It seems like it could be different. You have- people from different worlds, people with different abilities. But in the end, nothing has changed.

[soulcontracts]

You're upset about Horst leaving.

[He and Yuca were friends. He remembers that.]

[neverquitedies]

I am.

[Softly.]

He was- [A pause. What was he, exactly?] -we were close.

[sauceytomato]

That's always how it's been, especially here.

I guess it has been two years for you, hasn't it?

[neverquitedies]

It seems longer than that.

[sauceytomato]

After all the shit that goes on here...yeah, it does.

[neverquitedies]

I don't know. I feel as if I've been here forever.

[bloodseal_soul]

[Al knows who it is. And his eyes are rimmed in red.]

Feel like company at all?

[neverquitedies]

What's the point?

[Soft, broken.]

[bloodseal_soul]

For neither of us to be alone right now.

[neverquitedies]

We will always be alone.

[Leaning back, taking a deep breath.]

You'll just never be old enough to realize it. I'd forgotten, but...

[law_of_reason]

Don't assume that.

[neverquitedies]

It's not assumption, it's fact.

[law_of_reason]

How do you know?

[neverquitedies]

Because it never has been different.

[Coldly.]

There is nothing in this world, Kurotsuchi, that links you to anybody else. Nobody will ever stay with you, nobody will take you with them- and if they say they will, then they're lying, and the sooner- the sooner you realize that-

[He pauses, tries to take a deep breath to recollect himself.]

-the sooner you accept that as fact, the better. I'd known, I'd known all this time, and yet.

And yet.

[Video]

[notamageiswear]

... do you need some company?

[He can tell something is wrong, but he's not sure what.]

[Video]

[neverquitedies]

No.

[Quiet. Oh son, you're the last person he needs to see right now. :(]

[Video]

[notamageiswear]

[Sob he only wants to help. D:]

... o-oh, okay. Ah... not even just to bring over some tea...?

[Video]

[neverquitedies]

I don't know.

[Quietly.]

Negi, Horst is gone.