video; @unchained

[hedonistic]

[There video opens to a beautiful scene of a sunset at the Fishing District, sky painted in magnificent pinks and oranges that reflect against the pristine ice. A few moments later, a young man's voice accompanies it, tinged with the telltale slurring of someone who's rather drunk.]

Hey, question.

[A pause hangs in the air for a minute, almost long enough that one might wonder if he's gotten distracted or forgotten.]

Did you like your life, before the Storm? [. . .] If the Natha gave you a chance to go back, would any of you stay here?

[Kagari doesn't miss Japan. He doesn't feel homesick. He misses his friends, sure, but he's had more in the past nine months than he did in the twenty-one years before it. But he's starting to feel like the only one.]

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voice; UN: SKULL

[sakabroto]

There was some shit going down back home, but given the chance? Yeah, I'd go back to finish it. There's somethin' really important to me an' my friends that we gotta do.

Why? Wouldn't you?

[hedonistic]

No.

[There's the sound of sloshing liquid as Kagari takes another swig of his drink.]

I wouldn't be alive right now if the Storm hadn't come.

[sakabroto]

...What? For real? You're... you're dead back home?

[hedonistic]

Super fucking dead, yeah. [He laughs, sort of a drunken wheeze-slash-cackle.] If there were awards for Most Dead, I'd probably be a contender.

[There would be nothing but a crater in the ground where he stood dead.]