Seventh Night: Way of the Dead

[berry-paunch.livejournal.com]

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[Bodies have washed up again. Once more, Tatsuma has gone to the shore. However, this time he's standing with his head down in front of one particular corpse.

It's easily identifiable as a teenaged girl, probably in high school. If your character has a good memory of faces, she probably looks familiar.]

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[revivedpianist.livejournal.com]

Tatsuma. [Neah himself has been visiting the beach to see what new things would appear. He did not think he'd see Tatsuma here.]

[unknownrival.livejournal.com]

[He stops a respectful distance away.]

That person is...

I'm so sorry.

[crownedexorcist]

[Quiet and at a respectful distance. He recognise the girl.]

...Tatsuma?

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[berry-paunch.livejournal.com]

[He turns ever so slightly to see who it is, before nodding and looking back to the body.]

[berry-paunch.livejournal.com]

[Tatsuma doesn't reply verbally. Instead, he puts his hands together in prayer and bows his head in respect.]

[unknownrival.livejournal.com]

[Issei quietly prays. It's what he does; he prays, as a monk, for the dead to reborn peacefully.]

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[revivedpianist.livejournal.com]

She will return, Tatsuma. I am sure of it. [Prospero was a weird city, after all.]

[berry-paunch.livejournal.com]

...Thanks.

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[berry-paunch.livejournal.com]

She wasn't one of us.

[She was normal. Just... a perfectly normal girl who had nothing to do with any of this.]

[unknownrival.livejournal.com]

I wish I could do more.

[berry-paunch.livejournal.com]

[He shakes his head very slightly, clenching his fist.]

...No one can do anything more for her now.

[unknownrival.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry.

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[revivedpianist.livejournal.com]

I am aware of that. But this place...

[It's weird. But he feels like she will come back... Regardless.]

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[berry-paunch.livejournal.com]

...You believe it will?

[Bring her back, that is.]

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[revivedpianist.livejournal.com]

Yes. Her death was not from a natural cause. [From what he's seen, it's definitely not from the hands of a human.]

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[berry-paunch.livejournal.com]

[He shakes his head. No way something like this could be an ordinary death.]

...

It probably has something to do with that time.

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[revivedpianist.livejournal.com]

Time?

[This peeks his interests. Seeing that this whole city and this whole month has been far too strange.]

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[berry-paunch.livejournal.com]

[A nod.]

The shadows...