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because this isn't going to be stupid

[preybeforemeals]

[Well. Hello.

Tsukiyama is hardly one to talk about being strangely-dressed, given his usual...that; that said, however, this girl is one that more or less demands attention regardless of how much (or how little) she may actually want to attract it - there's just something to be said about beautiful people in public that makes people look. And so look he does, though it isn't long before his attention darts to that massive-ass butterfly that she seems to be really pointedly disregarding somehow - given that he arrived here with nine feet of snake in a ball that really shouldn't have been able to contain nine feet of snake, he can't say that he blames her for it, but it amuses him a bit regardless.

So. Excuse him while he approaches this incredibly lost-looking woman just because she's made it sufficiently impossible for him to not approach her. Clearly this is her doing for seeming a bit out of sorts on a public thoroughfare, out-of-the-way though it may be.

And he's certainly not going to complain either way.]

I don't suppose you have a moment?

you brought that username it's already stupid

[heartspoken]

[It really says something, when her first thought upon sighting the young gentleman's approach isn't so much something to the effect of "sir, please learn to dress yourself" and actually falls somewhere more along the lines of, "oh, thank goodness, someone dressed properly for once". Admittedly, the colors are a little...much, but she supposes she's likely been dead long enough to have lost track of which ones are in fashion this season, and at least it's better than the collarless short-sleeved...things most of the other shameless people have been wandering around in lately.

Someone like that...it's funny, isn't it, how backwards they are? She's the one wearing black, and he's decked out in a young lady's bright colors. What a little spectacle they make.

Oh, but he's said something — courtesy would demand a reply, then, and hers comes on the form of a slight bow (mostly in her shoulders) and her attention finally turned away from the flowers around her.]

Good morning! It's a very pretty day out, isn't it?

wow rude

[preybeforemeals]

[...at least there's the general acknowledgement that the colors are a bit much. Your fashion sense is still a bit of a worry, but at least you're not colorblind.]

So it is! A bit on the warm side, but it's pretty regardless.

[Oh god, are we talking about the weather, we're talking about the weather.]

That's a beautiful dress, by the way, though it's not a sort of style I've seen around here often.

[heartspoken]

Why, thank you. It's...

[Borrowed, actually, but she can't very well say that, true or not. Especially not in front of the first person about her age (and a gentleman, at that) that she's seen thus far today.]

— I don't know what's the matter with everyone, to be honest, walking around dressed the way they are. No one seems to mind it in the least — it's as if they haven't even noticed at all!

[preybeforemeals]

[...THERE IS NOT ENOUGH "OH HONEY NO" IN THE WORLD FOR YOU, MERIDIANA.]

Oh, it is all a bit crude - but it's not as though any of them will listen to reason, either.

[heartspoken]

[OH HONEY YES YOU MEAN]

It's just shameful, really.

[...]

I wonder if I might ask you something of a strange question?

[preybeforemeals]

Anything - if you desire to know, I'll do what I can to answer!

[...this is going to either be the best question he's received all week or it's going to go from zero to shitshow in point-six

let's see]

[heartspoken]

Well, it's simply:

[...Apparently it's not really "simply" anything, given how she pauses and seems to grasp around mentally for the right phrasing.]

Is there...well, a place you feel as though you ought to be, right now? One that isn't here?

[...wait, shit, that sounded like a passive-aggressive brush-off —]

— That is, may I ask how it is you came to be in this city? Do you live here?

[#catlike grace #nailed it #so smooth #no one saw that]

[preybeforemeals]

[Well, for what it's worth that actually gets a laugh out of him - really, even if it was a brush-off...well, he's had worse and they didn't deter him then, so, uh. Take that as you will!]

...Ah, no, no, I'm not from this place, either. Many of us seem to be in the same situation, really - c'est malheureux, terribly unfortunate all around, but from what I've heard there's not much we can do about it for now besides enjoy the view.

[heartspoken]

[Honestly, it's because of the catlike grace of the last question that she hesitantly opts out of the follow-up she's tempted to ask, if only because there is literally no social protocol whatsoever that can prepare someone for the rather awkward question of inquiring as to whether or not someone is currently supposed to be dead and really kind of not, and...

...well, she's a bit oddly situated when it comes to supposed to be dead and really kind of not as it is, anyway.]

You're a foreigner, but you speak French very well.

[And that is a curiosity to her Victorian English sensibilities.]

That must be nice — do you travel often?

[preybeforemeals]

[It's probably fortunate that she's opted out of that, just because goodness no social protocol for that indeed. Even where he's from, the closest he's gotten to that question being anywhere near appropriate was aimed toward someone who quite simply wasn't dying fast enough and kept grabbing him at the most inopportune times.

...It's good that Nishiki isn't here right now, that isn't a particularly fond memory.]

Ahh, not nearly as much as I would like, sadly enough! Before now, my travels were restricted to the worlds shown to me in books - which really isn't a restriction at all, should the authors be competent enough.