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[bountyfull]

[ he COULD choose not to answer this.

and yet. ]

Sorry, is the light bothering you?

[placation]

Not at all!

Are you doing anything in particular, or just can't sleep?

[bountyfull]

Nothing important.

I like how quiet it is at night.

[ There's a pause. ]

Is everything okay?

[placation]

[ don't you try to turn the tables on him motherfucker ]

Yes. Just a little worn out on counseling every time I dream, so I'm enjoying the quiet as well.

I was going to go sit outside and admire at Akechi-kun's enemy, the moon.

Would you like to join me?

[bountyfull]

[ That gets a chuckle out of him. The second part, anyway. ]

Sounds pretty tiring...
Sure, I'll be outside in a minute.

[ It doesn't take him too long, but he does hop out through his own open window rather than going through the door. It's fine, he's on the first floor. ]

[placation]

[ Maruki, a normal man who gets places normally, goes out the front door just in time to see Vash clamoring out his window and laughs way too loud for such a quiet, peaceful night. Frankly, it's incredible that his spindly legs don't get caught on the ledge and send him tumbling ass over teakettle. ]

Thank you for joining me. I thought the company might be nice for both of us.

[ Not that he doesn't love three-way bonding time with Akechi and Vash, but sometimes The Adults Need To Talk. Maruki stuffs his hands into his jacket pockets and rocks a little on the balls of his feet. ]

Where's your favorite place to stargaze around here?

[ yeah he read and internalized your sleepr profile :) ]

[bountyfull]

[ He does make it out of the window without incident. Look, it was open and closer than the front door. He's also a little bit of a weirdo. He flashes Maruki a small grin at the laugh though. What? ]

Haha, you remembered that, huh?

There's a hill to the south that's nice. So long as you don't mind resting in the grass.

[ He doesn't mind at all. A year in and grass and trees and weather in general is still novel to him.. ]

[placation]

[ Hill to the south it is! As they head off that way, Maruki does what Maruki does best: Chatter on with a bit of self-deprecation to hopefully put the other person at ease. ]

I don't mind at all. Akechi-kun and I may be incurable city dwellers, but I've always appreciated the times I've been able to take a break in nature. Laying in the grass or a field of flowers is soothing. That's about where my outdoorsy aptitude ends, though! I once went on a camping retreat with my grad school cohort and managed to contract two different types of poison ivy and twist my ankle by day two.

[ A good-natured laugh at himself, a shrug as they climb their way up the hill. ]

What about you? I barely know anything about what your reality was like.