samantha_grey | IC Inbox - Asgard Eventide

An old, brick edifice stands in front of the burnt-down ruins of a home in the hillside. Mountains rear up in all directions, covered in lush, green vegetation. Nobody comes this way anymore, but you have the sense that anything placed in the mailbox attached to this old structure will be found by someone, the only living person for whom this place still has any meaning.

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From:

seventeenpills

Ah - You've been to New York? I really want to go there some day and try the food. I hear it's some of the world's best. And are the subways really that dangerous? Being the trains in Japan are so safe I'd always assumed it was kind of a joke. Like aligators in the sewers.

I know she doesn't mind being alone but... I don't know. I just hope that when she is, it's a choice she makes. Not something she does because she feels other options aren't open to her. Lonliness is pretty unpleasant in general but it can lead to other, more troublesome things and I wouldn't want that for her.

From:

samantha_grey

Part of what makes them unsafe doesn't apply to you. Tight little crowds like that are harder to hide brimstone and wings in. So I tended to not like cramped spaces like those. Some of the bums were a bit unpleasant, though.

And, it's probably good to be concerned. Just don't push too hard. She might bolt the other way in the end, you know. That wouldn't help anything.

From:

seventeenpills

Ah - I see. Yeah, not problems I've got.

Oh, beleive me, I understand. It's a delicate thing and I do my best to be encouraging but not forceful. I've gotten good at that.

From:

samantha_grey

Around here, god, I'd have to imagine you have to. If you're dealing with basket cases like she and I on a regular basis, you're going to need patience for one. Heh, it's not like we come with instruction manuals.

From:

seventeenpills

Actually, most of what I know in that regard I learned from being friends with Hanako - Again, no instruction manual for that. Just... a lot of patience and gentleness.

[That would have been useful though - Possibly a lengthy tome but he'd never been afraid of a thick book.]

From:

samantha_grey

Kind of a crash course, is she? She ... well, I don't want to say, but the burns sort of tell me that she's got to have a pretty unpleasant story that's none of my damned business. But, I'd bet she'd be a good teacher on being gentle.

From:

seventeenpills

She is. The first time I ever spoke to her, we managed about five words between the two of us before she ran away. I learned very, very quickly the level of patience and care required to be a part of her world. Heh.... even if she decides never to speak to me again, I'm grateful I got to spend even a little time there.

[He gaze became a little distant as he looked out over the water, a hand running up to push his bangs out of his eyes.]

From:

samantha_grey

I... I don't plan on letting it end that way, so please stop talking that way, Hisao. I'm going to find something to fix this problem, one way or another, so you two don't have to be this pissed off at each other.

It's just that simple. You two are forcing my hand. I have to find a fix.

From:

seventeenpills

[He looked back at her, honestly a little surprised. He knew she felt responsible, but he hadn't asked her to provide a fix. He'd taken that upon himself.]

....Samantha, I really appreciate that...

[He had half a mind to tell her not to. That she had enough to worry about herself. And that was true, really. But she sounded so sincere, he didn't have the heart to say no to her offer.]

...And anything you can think of would be just great.

From:

samantha_grey

I have to somehow find a way to make it so I'm not as much a danger to you. She's mad because you're putting yourself in danger, right? I... if you're going to be stubborn, then I just have to find some way, either getting locked up or something else or both, to not do what I did to you ever again. [much less worse]

From:

seventeenpills

Well, something will be figured out, I'm sure. Just so long as it's nothing that hurts you - Obviously I'd hate to think of you being harmed, even in your Other state. I mean, it was all I could do that night not to try and heal your bite wound before getting out of there.

....how's that healing up by the way?

From:

samantha_grey

I got whatever was done taken care of after I was more lucid. As much as I'd prefer not to, she took a hunk out of my arm, so it was harder to just ignore. Everything's pretty much taken care of. Just a little scarring.

...odd, really. Not used to having scars. Don't worry, though. I'm not suicidal. As much as I think the world's better off without me, it's not in my nature to go and do something that stupid or get myself in a situation that's just as bad. We'll find a way that doesn't overdo it.

From:

seventeenpills

[Hisao looked a little green at the memory, swallowing hard.]

Yeah that was really... something. Ugh.

[Such a frail constitution.]

Well, I'm glad we're on the same page there. Safety is important but it has to be safety for everyone, including you.

From:

samantha_grey

She... has her own demons to struggle with. I wish I could help her more, but she frightens me at times, and I feel bad about that. It's very hard for me to associate with half demons.

[She didn't fully agree about her safety, but she also wasn't the sort to just put her head on the block, so it was an easy request to go along with.]

From:

seventeenpills

I'll admit I find her pretty scary myself. I tried talking to her when she first arrived and she made it kind of clear it wasn't exactly welcome. I mean, all I saw was a person with arms that looked like they'd been injured, so... I mean, my instinct was to offer to help. I think she took that the wrong way or what have you so, after a few tries at conversation I kind of gave up...

From:

samantha_grey

She's... something you need to keep in mind when dealing with a half-whatever is that we usually get really touchy about things. The whys vary, but I've noticed most of the others I've seen are like this. We're not entirely in one world or another, and with half demons especially, there's usually some deformity involved.

In my world, demons mating with humans make for what are basically deformed monsters. It's not that different for her. She's a lot like Painwheel in that she doesn't like people trying to get close to her, doesn't seem to understand it, and to top it off she seems to have a very... old fashioned way of looking at things.

It can make her really hard to talk to.

From:

seventeenpills

Painwheel I've been able to get through to at least. I haven't seen much of her lately but we agreed to meet for lunch one day and I said I'd cook for her. Regina... Yeah. There's a really big wall there that I'm just not able to get past. And I mean, it's frustrating in a way but it's her right to chose who she does and doesn't talk to. So, I've just backed off. I really do want to thank her for her role in helping me out of there, though.

From:

samantha_grey

It is her right, yeah. Something I want you to remember, too, is that you can't save them all. That's not your job. Some of them have to walk their own path. Everyone does, really.

From:

seventeenpills

Save them....? Ah. I see what you mean. No, I'm not trying to 'save' anyone - don't misunderstand me. I went through a short lived phase of that mentality but lost it quite a while ago.

[He gave a small, self depreciating chuckle and shook his head. Another life lesson courtesy of Hanako.]

It's not about saving people. Believe me, I'm in no real shape to 'fix' anything for anyone! But if I can make anyone's day a little better by being there for them then that's something. There's a lot of things I can't do - that's one thing I think I'm pretty alright at.

From:

samantha_grey

[She could be such a hypocrite about these things herself, so she didn't have much room to be talking.]

Heh. I'm either insanely lucky to have a friend like you around, or insanely unlucky. One of these days, someone's going to fall in love with you with an attitude like that, and you're going to drive them absolutely insane.

From:

seventeenpills

Heh - Hopefully it's lucky. As for the love part, that would be nice though I could do without driving anyone insane!

From:

samantha_grey

Let's hope for lucky, yeah. Somehow, though, I think love's pretty much insanity no matter what.

From:

seventeenpills

I wouldn't say that. At least, I hope it isn't. I can see where some of the paralells can be drawn I guess.

From:

samantha_grey

Well, this is me we're talking about. Anything romance-related with me is bound to have a little more insanity than the average.

From:

seventeenpills

I guess there IS that. I mean, I wouldn't call it insanity. Just.... there's some specific challenges there. That doesn't really change much though because everyone comes with a set of specific challenges.