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siafukira ([personal profile] siafukira) wrote2009-10-01 08:32 am
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[Light shrugs, leaning back against the counter.]

I grew up in Japan. Tokyo. I'm probably not supposed to tell you that, either.

[[OOC: private to [livejournal.com profile] stripesandheels. continued from here.]]

[identity profile] righteous-pen.livejournal.com 2009-10-01 09:58 pm (UTC)(link)
And the mansion - [He swallows, faintly.] I'm not certain this qualifies as reassuring, but it has to be said. The mansion has an interest in keeping us alive.

[identity profile] siafukira.livejournal.com 2009-10-01 10:11 pm (UTC)(link)
[It says a lot that that piece of information actually does reassure Light.]

And if it was going to happen, it would already have happened. I know. But we can't trust that. We can't assume the mansion's good nature, in that regard. Someone could be brought in tomorrow, freshly infected. The place loves trauma. Or—

[More tea. Yes. His hands don't tremble; instead, he becomes even more still, and quiet, and prepared, and now what's left of the defensive brightness in his voice is wholly gone.]

"People involved with the Kira case". My father would certainly have been involved, if Sayu was. He didn't make it out of Japan.

[identity profile] stripesandheels.livejournal.com 2009-10-01 10:14 pm (UTC)(link)
I know. We'll be as vigilant as we can be.

[Watching him, curiously.]

But it's- yellow alert, not red alert.

[identity profile] righteous-pen.livejournal.com 2009-10-01 10:58 pm (UTC)(link)
...I'd never assume this place's good nature, no. More imagine that it doesn't want to break its toys. But yes, we'll be on guard.

[He doesn't know what else to say.]

[identity profile] siafukira.livejournal.com 2009-10-02 07:38 am (UTC)(link)
[It's probably as much overt emotion as he's shown since he arrived in the mansion, because it's the first time he's felt like Kamchatka was actually the safer place. Part of him's eighteen again, running through the streets of Tokyo, tasting blood.]

I want it to stay that way. I don't want to see a red alert.