Chapter 2: (Ab)Normal Days

[iruy]

[...Well, that was fun.]





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Comments

lev

[(Anonymous)]

[...this is discomforting]

[so he's gonna write an obituary for Tony on the blackboard]

[have to put the spirits at peace, right? right]

Re: lev

[kalaaveisto]

[watching from the doorway like a creep]

lev

[(Anonymous)]

[...is he being watched]

[he turns around and yep some punk kid is watching him]




[w...ave]

Re: lev

[kalaaveisto]

[awkwardly waves back]

What are you doing?

lev

[(Anonymous)]

...Writing a draft of an obituary.

[duh]

Er, I mean, it seems like the nice thing to do.

[and will put spirits at rest, right]

Re: lev

[kalaaveisto]

Ah, I see. That's something to do, I guess.

[wonders if you'd bother writing one for the murderer, but figures it's better not to ask]

Must be hard to write about someone you don't know.

lev

[(Anonymous)]

[no, she was an asshole]

...Yeah. But it feels like someone has to.

[frown]

The only person who seemed to be so close to her... was the one who killed her, after all.

Re: lev

[kalaaveisto]

Ah, right. I guess the dead can't write for each other.

[wow that's a pretty sad existence you had there, Tony]

lev

[(Anonymous)]

[Tony kind of led a sad life, period]

...Right.

[pause]

And it'd be sort of... bad, if she could. [since she killed her and all]

[uhn]

What are you writing?

[can't read Cyrillic]

lev

[(Anonymous)]

[god why does EVERYONE SNEAK AROUND HERE]

A-An obituary.

[pause]

I mean, a draft of one...

uhn

[(Anonymous)]

[it's a new floor! that means a new opportunity to search for soil!]

[and look, he's even comfortable enough with him to ask him a question]

Ah.

...

Um... what is an obitshary?

lev

[(Anonymous)]

[why is everyone weird]

Er, like a... notice of someone who's died. It talks about who they were, what they did, what they were like... you know.

[uhn]

[raised by trees, in this case]

But... we don't know all those things about Tony and the others. I don't even know what their names have been... do you? O-or their Super High School Levels?

lev

[(Anonymous)]

Well... She was a Fun Expert. Her name was Tony Romano, and... She was nice to everyone, so she made good relations with us all.

[mostly]

It's just to be nice. Save her memory.

uhn

[(Anonymous)]

[nods]

It is a good idea.

...

Do you not know about the other two?

[he still isn't entirely sure if Tony's friend really killed her, and if so, if she did it in cold blood and without regrets]

[and that boy Yuri killed... he just lost his nerves; he didn't deserve to die like that]

lev

[(Anonymous)]

[he shakes his head]

I didn't know the boy... We only spoke once, I think. The girl, Pidge...

[frown]

I don't think she deserves one.

uhn

[(Anonymous)]

...

[feels his fury deflate]


It's--

You--


[that alarmed and confused expression... "I'm not evil"...]

[is this what a liar and cheerful killer looks like?]

...

It-- it takes so long for a tree to grow, you know? And then people cut them all down, just to make things that could be made out of stone or cement or other plants or plastic...

[thinks of his own tree and its crossed out picture and swallows]

Do you enjoy cuting them down?

[he's willing to take back what he said about him having killed Tony, but first he wants to know the answer]

lev

[(Anonymous)]

[...should he lie? he doesn't know what there is to lie about]

...Not really... I mean, I don't hate it, but I don't look forward to doing it... It's just part of life.

[frown]

Do you... I mean, what about apples? Or pears? You eat those, right? What's the difference?

[uhn]

[shoots back immediately]

I save the seeds!!

[but the rest of what he said makes him think]

[killing and dying is part of life, that much is true... but still, no living beings other than humans cut down trees; that's unnatural]

...

[locks eyes with him, trying to see if he's a good person or not]

[but he cannot tell no matter how long he looks]

lev

[(Anonymous)]

[that's because right now he just looks kind of angry and annoyed]

Seriously... Stop staring at me, you're weirding me out.

[he pushes past him, hurrying from the room without looking back. he doesn't want to be murdered]

uhn

[(Anonymous)]

Uh-- wait!

[he can't just run away like that!]

[speeds after him]

Hey!

You're-- you're suspicious!

lev

[(Anonymous)]

...What??

[he stops and looks at him, annoyed]

How am I suspicious? What did I do? You're the one being weird about trees...!

teentouch!anon

[(Anonymous)]

/takes photo/

/ducks out of room before he can yell at her/

lev

[(Anonymous)]

[WHY]