[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]

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.]

[payback]

You! [Okay. Now she's raising one hand to bop at him. GIN ICHIMARU.] You are such a creep. Maybe you baked these wearing a pretty apron, huh?

[onehundredswords]

Sorry. Don't care quite that much.

[yh rite]

Don't worry about it, alright? Just eat them.

They're good, aren't they? I wouldn't be eating them too if this was a trick.

[payback]

[She gives him a pointed look to demonstrate that he's not actually forgiven - but she returns to nibbling at her sweet. It is pretty good, somehow, weird as it is to envision Gin as someone with sweets-baking friends - good enough for her tastes, at least.

As she slowly eats, something occurs to her. The glance Gin-wards should be a tipoff, as should the suddenly slightly anxious set to her expression.]

Couldn't you go and finish your thing while they still let people skip around worlds? And then come along?

[onehundredswords]

You can just say "I'll miss you" you know. It's fine!

[Deflecting the topic is an acceptable response right.]

1/2

[payback]

Don't make it weird!

[payback]

[But no she's pretty sure this is a good and feasible idea. So... she'll press it.]

Why can't you do that?

[onehundredswords]

[...]

Don't feel like it.

Besides, does it matter? Look, I've taught you everything I can. You don't need me around anymore.

[payback]

So what? You could go do other things. And... I mean... there's so much to see. [She stuffs the remaining part of the cookie into her mouth and bites down on it grumpily.]

What's the big deal?

[onehundredswords]

...I can't. I told you I was dead, right? I might be too scary a ghost for people to handle.

[He's admitting to it...in a lying kind of way, sure, but he said it.]

[payback]

[That's kind of a weird thing to say - but she'll tackle the latter first.]

That's stupid! Look, why don't you take it seriously? This is the kind of thing you only get to decide once. Why pick to stay in one world when you could go see a lot of them? Hardly anyone even knows you're [disdainful sniff] a ghost.