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]

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?

[voice]

[kuritsun]

Don't apologize.

[ wait whoops NOW WHAT DOES SHE DO... how does she conversation... ]

H-how about your parents...?

[voice]

[motioned]

Oh, um, I don't have anybody related to me back home or anything.

[AWKWARD...]

I have a legal guardian here, though!

[voice]

[kuritsun]

N... Nobody? [ SO AWKWARD... GOOD JOB KURISU ] W-wait, you were adopted here?

[voice]

[motioned]

I think there's a difference between adoption and him just being a guardian, but I think of him like a father no matter what.