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They've always seemed inconvenient to me, but I understand my perspective isn't typical of an ordinary person.
... Road head.
[pupils dilating]
Let's do that in your car.
Where would you go first? If it was your version of earth, would you visit the home you had?
... Road head.
[pupils dilating]
Let's do that in your car.
Where would you go first? If it was your version of earth, would you visit the home you had?
maybe. it's a nice place in toronto. i bought the building just after the second world war, so... idk, 50 years ago?
（ cy: great at math, bad at time. ）
i lived down in a place called new orleans, in the country of america, with james and moved up to toronto (in canada) afterwards. spent about a decade patching it up and doing a bunch of repairs/renovations until i got it how i like it.
i think you'd enjoy it.
（ cy: great at math, bad at time. ）
i lived down in a place called new orleans, in the country of america, with james and moved up to toronto (in canada) afterwards. spent about a decade patching it up and doing a bunch of repairs/renovations until i got it how i like it.
i think you'd enjoy it.
you're not the only handsome weirdly powerful endearingly charming miscreant in this relationship with an nebulously healthy desire to learn everything about their betrothed you know.
anything you want to tell me, i want to know. period. au-delà du temps.
anything you want to tell me, i want to know. period. au-delà du temps.
[why does his mind only zoom in on "betrothed"]
Naruto and I grew up... not together, but we were alone in the village at the same age. He'd always been on his own because he'd never known his parents — they both died when he was born. I noticed him more once my own family was gone. He was always starting trouble for attention, which annoyed me because I didn't understand it. I thought he was childish and immature.
We had more in common than I realized back then, especially our drive to become stronger. He was my rival when I was young. Every time I did something well, he had to do it better in order to beat me. That competition was... almost enjoyable at the time, because it gave me focus. It was a concrete way to measure my improvement. And he made me feel like I did when my family was still alive.
I don't know if I told you before, but he was the one I wanted to kill. Well, there were others. But he felt the most personal to me apart from my brother, and the man who used my brother. I first tried to kill Naruto when I was thirteen and failed. That was when I left the village.
Naruto and I grew up... not together, but we were alone in the village at the same age. He'd always been on his own because he'd never known his parents — they both died when he was born. I noticed him more once my own family was gone. He was always starting trouble for attention, which annoyed me because I didn't understand it. I thought he was childish and immature.
We had more in common than I realized back then, especially our drive to become stronger. He was my rival when I was young. Every time I did something well, he had to do it better in order to beat me. That competition was... almost enjoyable at the time, because it gave me focus. It was a concrete way to measure my improvement. And he made me feel like I did when my family was still alive.
I don't know if I told you before, but he was the one I wanted to kill. Well, there were others. But he felt the most personal to me apart from my brother, and the man who used my brother. I first tried to kill Naruto when I was thirteen and failed. That was when I left the village.
（ he wishes, abruptly, that he'd thought to ask this in person. it's a lot to take in, and he reads in solemn silence, trying to give the words the weight that they deserve. but he knows even as he does that parts of this story will not stay with him, that things will slip away like the pool of water in cupped hands, draining like a sieve until it's excised from his mind as cleanly as a surgical cut.
perhaps, then, it's almost better that it's text. he can come back to this later in review, and at least — try.
at length — ）
Thank you for telling me. I'll try to remember as much as I can.
You said you failed. That makes it sound like you lost the fight — but that wasn't it, was it?
perhaps, then, it's almost better that it's text. he can come back to this later in review, and at least — try.
at length — ）
Thank you for telling me. I'll try to remember as much as I can.
You said you failed. That makes it sound like you lost the fight — but that wasn't it, was it?
It's okay. It helps to say it. I've never told anyone else.
[He's done things. For so long, he's done so much he regrets — and so many people in the world are aware of those actions. But he's never spoken them aloud, to someone else, willingly. And he does not trust another person as much as he trusts Cy to hear it.]
The first time, no. I won. But I couldn't do it.
So I tried again later — when I was older and more powerful. And I lost. I think I would have done it then, if I'd succeeded.
[He's done things. For so long, he's done so much he regrets — and so many people in the world are aware of those actions. But he's never spoken them aloud, to someone else, willingly. And he does not trust another person as much as he trusts Cy to hear it.]
The first time, no. I won. But I couldn't do it.
So I tried again later — when I was older and more powerful. And I lost. I think I would have done it then, if I'd succeeded.
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