[closed] Despite the interminable distance, in a brumous and sunny path

[onehundredswords]

Date & Time: March 8th; 8pm
Location: Somewhere outside the city you have a good view of it all
Characters: sensei and student
Summary: goodbye

[He'd arrived a little earlier considering he wanted to be there before she was. Seated on the ground and looking out to the city, his memories of these place really were fond. A lot fonder than anything he could remember in the past 100 years.

That in itself was kind of sad, now that he thought about it.]

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[onehundredswords]

[He turns his head to look at her, his more typical grin returning.]

Nope! You-

[...hah.]

No, before I move on, how long do you think my sword can extend to?

Don't say you don't know. Take a guess.

[payback]

Um... [She blinks. It's, in a weird way, reassuring to see him leer like that. She was getting pretty serious there and this feels so much more normal.]

I don't - [He already told her not to say that. She'll just spit out a random number.] Um... six miles.

[onehundredswords]

Close! So close. It's eight.

Now - how fast do you think it is?

[payback]

I don't even know how to talk about that! As fast as a cheetah.

[onehundredswords]

[Laughing! Oh Rin, never change.]

Not even close.

[He claps his hands once all of a sudden, pauses briefly, and then-]

500 times that.

[payback]

[A

pause.]

So pretty fast.

[onehundredswords]

Pretty fast.

But the real question is - which one's the secret?

[payback]

What, so... I have to guess?

[onehundredswords]

Yup.

It's fun to watch.

[payback]

I don't want to! Why can't you just tell me?

[onehundredswords]

I'm trying to prove a point.

Now I'm telling you - one of those is the secret. Which is it?

[payback]

[she ROLLS her EYES. Gin Ichimaru is a pain in the ASS. At random:]

How fast.

[onehundredswords]

Hm.

I lied. It's neither.

[payback]

[TYPICAL!]

So what?

[onehundredswords]

Everyone believed me.

They worried so much about what I was telling them that they didn't consider what I wasn't telling them.

[He pulls out a danish-]

It isn't the snake's bite that's dangerous. It's the venom.

That's the real secret - the sword is poisonous.

[-and takes a bite out of it.]

[payback]

[LMAO SHE CAN'T EVEN HANDLE THIS??? How to react... what the fuck]

So... it's really fast, it's really long, and... it's poisonous.

[Is that all true now or...]

[onehundredswords]

Yup.

[He nods.]

No more lies, I promise. That covers it.

[payback]

Yeah... okay. So, uh...

[What... was his original point again...]

[onehundredswords]

[Maybe one day she'll realize she should have focused on what he didn't tell her, like he suggested.]

What do you think of the goods? [Gesturing to the basket.] My friend made them for me.

[payback]

[She'll get back to it!!! She'll ask more. It'll be annoying. Maybe she'll realize something.]

Your friend? Who's that? [A little pause. She takes out a Danish to eat too. She crumbled up a lot of that first cookie.] They are good...

[onehundredswords]

[In a bit of an exaggerated, theatrical sort of voice.]

Christopher Chareau De Red! Lover of flowers and hyperbole.

[Then he cuts it out immediately, laughing quietly to himself.]

That's how he'd wanna be introduced. He was a real freak.

[payback]

[It's kind of a weird moment of dissonance to see that out of him - it's so... affectionate, maybe, is the word she wants. That quiet laugh. She looks at him carefully out of the corner of her eye. Noting the "was."]

Did he leave?

[onehundredswords]

Ah, yeah. Shame that.

[A nod.]

Few months ago maybe. I wasn't really paying attention to the date, so he just scurried off back home while I wasn't even looking.

[payback]

W-wait... how old are these snacks, then?

[onehundredswords]

They're fine! If you could taste the mould you woulda said somethin' by now.

[He's just messing with you Rin don't worry.]