thirty fourth dance | voice;

[motioned]

[A rustling sound, like someone shifting around on a bed.]

You know, I make sure to pay really good attention to the calendar and changing the days, and I realized that it's been a whole year and a half since I first got here. It's sort of weird - sometimes it doesn't feel that long at all, but there are times it seems a lot longer. Even though it's hard, I'm glad. I learned a lot of stuff I probably wouldn't have, from some really amazing people. Some of them have gone home, but...

[She pauses, making sure her voice will hold before continuing.]

I know most of them are back where they would want to be. Even if I miss them, being sad just shows that we were close, so I think even that is something to be glad for. I hope everyone wouldn't be too sad for very long if I got sent home again, too.

I guess I just wanted to say thank you to everyone, all my friends and even people I've only talked to once. I don't know if I could have been very happy here at all if I didn't meet all of you, so I feel like owe you a lot.

[ooc: Forward dated to the 2nd! Tags will be sloooow because hiatus, but I wanted to slap this up now, because I'm not sure when I'll have a mostly free evening in the near future.]

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[voice]

[motioned]

Their names are Jack, Sirius, and Luca.

[voice]

[kuritsun]

Ah... Sadly, I don't know them. ... Not that it's surprising, of course.

[voice]

[motioned]

Because you haven't been here that long, right?

[voice]

[kuritsun]

Ah... yes, that's it. [ sort of... Well, Ahiru's friendly enough. ] ... To be honest, socializing isn't really my strong point. I've been concerned with a lot of other things.

[voice]

[motioned]

Huh? Oh, I can try and help you make friends if you want! It'd be pretty bad to be lonely in a place like this.

[voice]

[kuritsun]

H-help? Ah, that's not what I meant, I just... I could if I wanted, I'm just busy trying to figure things out! It's not like I just sit on the internet trying to distract myself or something!

[voice]

[motioned]

[but kurisu it's not just a river in egypt]

A-Ah, I'm sorry, I didn't mean to seem rude! What have you been working on?

[voice]

[kuritsun]

[ denial is basically her middle name ]

It wasn't rude! It's fine! [ wait what has she been working on umm QUICK ] -- I'm trying to find a job so I can get closer to the Core and figure out what's going on!

[voice]

[motioned]

Nobody will give you a job? That's so sad...

[voice]

[kuritsun]

Ah, that's not it! I think I might have found one in the hospital, but... we'll see.

[voice]

[motioned]

Oh! Well, good luck with that, then! Do you know how to do doctor stuff?

[voice]

[kuritsun]

Well... No, but I could learn. I have the background... [ sigh. ] I'm hoping that I can just do research work.

[voice]

[motioned]

Oh! People research stuff at hospitals, too? I thought they just took care of sick people.

[voice]

[kuritsun]

Usually, yes. Unless it's a very small hospital... They may not necessarily be in the same building, of course.

[voice]

[motioned]

Do you want to study brains again?

[voice]

[kuritsun]

[ wow, it sounds really weird put that way. ] ... If I can, yes. It's my life's work.

[ not including the time machine she's going to pretend that never happened. ]

[voice]

[motioned]

What got you interested in them in the first place?

[voice]

[kuritsun]

Ah, well... I'm not sure if there's something in particular, but my father was a well-known scientist, so I grew up around such things.

[voice]

[motioned]

Oh! What kind of stuff did he work on?

[voice]

[kuritsun]

Physics. Theoretical and quantum physics, particularly. It was very fascinating. I liked to read his papers when I was little.

[voice]

[motioned]

You really understood it when you were little?

[voice]

[kuritsun]

Not right away, of course. But I thought they were interesting, so I would keep trying. My father would talk about them with me, too, back then.

[ a bit of sadness creeps into her voice, but she tries to overpower it. ]

[voice]

[motioned]

What was he like? Other than really smart.

[voice]

[kuritsun]

He's... Well...

[ What should she say? Kurisu barely remembered what he'd been like back then. Before he'd started the yelling and hitting and the tears. How long ago was that...? She bites her lip. ]

... I'm sorry. If it's all the same to you, I'd rather talk about something else.

[voice]

[motioned]

[She blinks in surprise, then pauses, ashamed.]

Sorry, I... Um, what do you want to talk about?