VOICE.

[veryhuman]

This rabbit saw a body flee. That means there is still life within them, right? Right? Yes... the life within that person still wishes to ...

[ Silence.

A softer, warmer voice -- but still sounds very much like the one that was just talking, only slightly muffled -- comes over instead. ]

I apologize. A person got a little excited and now he has gone to sleep. That is... for the best, I think.

Life is much better when we are smiling with one another, but the way that he smiles...

Anyway, why don't we talk about what makes us smile? Joy is best had when it is shared with others, isn't that how that saying goes?

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[codecmoment]

Sorta, yeah. I helped some people who removed theirs, or lost theirs. I kept mine on, and I'm glad. I don't like the idea of losing control like that.

[veryhuman]

It is... terrifying.

They had gotten drunk on the banquet and on the feasting. When that happens... they will come to regret what happens. Yes, they will regret what happens from the bottom of their hearts.

That is why... they should remember what makes them smile.

[codecmoment]

Wow, you have a poetic way of putting things. I don't think it was their fault. What I did with them made us both feel good, and I don't regret it. I hope they don't, either, but they consented the whole way.

[veryhuman]

Bragging?

[codecmoment]

What? No, I'm saying that you can turn what happens to you during the moon phase into something good. Or... I'm trying to. Trying to make them not in danger or pain.

[veryhuman]

[ He cannot help but giggle a little at the response. ]

Of course, of course. And I am trying to tease you, because you're earnest words are quite sweet. They're sweet and kind and so I want to bully you a little. That is all.

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[codecmoment]

[ The speaker has a male voice, but he's very soft spoken. So the sincerity of what he types now matches his tone with how he actually speaks - nervous, nerdy, but gentle. ]

That's creepy, y'know.

:)

[veryhuman]

What is creepy?

[codecmoment]

Saying things like that! It's weird! I'm trying to be genuine here and some pervert over the network says he wants to bully me.

[veryhuman]

Perhaps, you should not be so easy to bully, then?

[ He chuckles a little. ]

I, too, am being genuine. I already like you... and the people I like... I bully.

[codecmoment]

[ He gets a weird shiver through him, because this sounds like the kind of dialogue in a visual novel or a BL game. Urgh. ]

Shame you'll never meet me.

[veryhuman]

Perhaps, it isn't for me to say...

But if you should meet someone else and say that... they definitely would take that as a game. A game of hide and seek.

[codecmoment]

It's really not, it's someone who keeps to themselves and has nothing to offer.

[veryhuman]

Nothing to offer?

Don't sell yourself short.

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[codecmoment]

38/m/iris, lop rabbit/has a long term partner and a... lady/hacker/engineer

Everyone else is like, buff and available.

[veryhuman]

Did you get shy? How cute!

[ A cheerful laugh. ]

I see. Rather than say that you have nothing to offer because you think you have nothing, it is more... you are already taken, then? Someone that loves and has given you a home? How wonderful.

This humble monk is quite happy for you.

[codecmoment]

We're co-dependent at this point, I think.

[veryhuman]

I don't recognize that term.

What does it mean?

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[codecmoment]

Can't live without the other.

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[veryhuman]

[ ................................... ]

[veryhuman]

What a scary thing... what a scary thing... to have with someone...

[codecmoment]

Grief is hard.

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[veryhuman]

Grief?

No ... you'll not know grief until... well... you have an idea... but if you are not careful, one of you will end up breaking.

[veryhuman]

Love is love... but to be unable to live without someone... you'll definitely...

[codecmoment]

He's already dead in my time. He's from the past, here.

[ His tone is much harsher this time. And he never gets like this. ]

Don't tell me what grief is. I have to deal with it every day I wake up. I can't move on - I'm stuck here.