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.]

Comments

[hedonistic]

I mean, explosives are pretty useful to criminal types...

[speaking from experience.]

[stuns]

Yeah, no kidding. But am I looked for criminals or am I looking for fireworks, Kagari, which is it?

[ dumb boy.............. ]

[hedonistic]

[uhh]

....Criminals who have fireworks?

[so u can ... steal or confiscate them or something ???? it made sense in his head at one point]

[stuns]

[ if he could reach through the device and shake kagari aggressively by the collar of his shirt, he would. he really would.

a long-suffering sigh. ]

Sounds like a lousy and noisy as hell scheme.

[hedonistic]

[Well, he can at least do the shaking once he hunts Kagari down, anyway.]

You mean criminals having fireworks or going after criminals with fireworks?

[stuns]

[ he's lazy. ]

Why not both?

Criminals with fireworks to cause trouble and criminals using fireworks to stop someone from going after them.

Let's take it a step further and say criminals with fireworks strapped to their backs.

[hedonistic]

You gotta admit that'd be a badass way to die, though.

[stuns]

There are way better ways to die, don't make me laugh.

[hedonistic]

Hey, I never said it was the best possible way to die. Just one that'd be cool and not unbearably suckish.

[inasmuch as dying itself wouldn't be unbearably suckish, anyway]

[stuns]

Yeah sure, 'cause going out as an over-sized party popper full of guts is so cool.

[ ew ]