AKIRA

[third_alternative]

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w0, friday

[third_alternative]

[ Rex is checking out the wrecked kitchen in the hotel! He's just staring at it thoughtfully, like if he looks hard enough he'll manage to divinate what happened somehow. ]

Looks like all the action was indoors last night, huh.

[bloodread]

[ kitchen tell us your secrets. akira is here part due to part curiosity, part "are the knives really all gone" quest. ]

Did you think it'd be outside?

[third_alternative]

I didn't think anything would happen, period. I just happened to be outside when I got locked out of everything.

I mean...I kinda wanted to see if anything would happen near the lighthouse, but I wasn't expecting a murder.

[bloodread]

Even after the body that was there?

[third_alternative]

[ sputters a little ] Well--not so soon! Isn't it bad luck to return to the scene of your own crime or whatever?!

[bloodread]

Maybe? Do you really think killers give a shit about luck?

w1, post execution

[third_alternative]

[ well. i imagine they're both being grumpy loners right now, so. While Akira sits on the roof, let's say that some pebbles or whatever fall off and hit Rex down at street level. ]

If you're gonna Batman up there, you mind doing it with a little less rubble falling on me?

[bloodread]

It's not my fault you don't watch where you're going. [ That's just his instant response even though most people don't look up, but alas, grumpy. ]

[third_alternative]

Yeah? Then it's not my fault either that you don't know how to sit on a roof without making it everyone else's problem.

[bloodread]

You gonna do something about it?

[third_alternative]

Depends. You gonna apologize? Or keep being a jerk about it?

[bloodread]

...do you think I'm twelve? [ Which he is in fact acting like, smh. ]

[third_alternative]

No. A twelve year old would be smart enough to know when they messed up. You? I'd say you're acting more like a seven year old.

[bloodread]

Like I said, you gonna do anything about it or what?

[third_alternative]

...you know what? Yeah, I think I will.

[ he crosses his arms, smug, as Amparo shifts into hawk form and soars up to the rooftop to start ominously swooping around Akira's head and screeching in his ear as well ]

[bloodread]

Your plan is to make me go deaf!?

[ Augh ok that's actually annoying though? He pulls his hood as close as he can to his hears. ]

[third_alternative]

Hey, if it works, it works.

Is it? Working, I mean.

[bloodread]

Fucking... [ Yeah, it's working. Akira climbs down from the roof with the agility of someone who isn't 6'2". ]

[third_alternative]

[ Amparo backs off to let him actually get down. Once he's back on the ground, Rex just gives him the smuggest fucking look. ]

[bloodread]

[ This is back date city I am sorry but Akira's gonna just go to punch him. That's his only response to all of this. ]

[third_alternative]

Oof--hey!

[ Rex takes the hit to the jaw and stumbles back but recovers just before he falls, and counters with his own punch! ]

[bloodread]

You started it. [ He will take the hit, it's probably just what he needs right now after today's events. Fisticuffs is a go since he's not stopping at just one. ]

[third_alternative]

Nuh-uh, you did, when you started kicking pebbles off the roof!

[bloodread]

You could have gone the other way. Or learned how to dodge.

[third_alternative]

And you could've been less clumsy with scattering all those rocks, but here we are.

[bloodread]

Maybe if I gave a shit, I would be?

[ .... ]

This is freakin' stupid.

[ He does not want to argue over pebbles and is going to just try and leave. ]

[third_alternative]

Sure, go right ahead, pal.

[ Akira can leave, but Rex will look so fuckin smug about it as he goes. Bailing because he's got no leg left to stand on? Pffft, scrub. ]

w7, friday

[third_alternative]

[ approaching Akira out of the deadvoid ]

So...how are you handling it here in our...little village of the dead?

[bloodread]

[ There's a small blink but Akira recovers soon enough, sometimes you welcome conversations which don't have a million feelings attached to them. ]

...this is my second time in the land of the dead. Shit's a lot less colorful here.

[third_alternative]

Second time? Like, you were dead back in your world before?

[bloodread]

No, I just got pulled there by this crazy bitch who was obsessed with me.

[third_alternative]

...sure. Why not.

And you got back out to the living end of things?

[bloodread]

Pretty much. If you connect two mirrors, it makes a path. It probably wouldn't work here?

[ A tilt of his head. Maybe he should have told the dead to try that instead of sending them random food and jilted conversations! ]

[third_alternative]

Yeah, I don't think so. I feel like we would've stumbled onto that by now if it was just that.

How do you even connect two mirrors, anyway?

[bloodread]

Reflect them on one another. It's pretty simple, but it doesn't work everywhere, I think. Just places with the right connection or whatever.

[third_alternative]

Huh. So like, the infinite mirror thing, except it actually connects someplace. Weird.

Do you have to get back the same way too?

[bloodread]

Yeah, it's the only way to do it. Even if you try to break the mirror from the inside or outside it won't work.