voice; un: shiro

[shiro2hero]

[Shiro it's like 7am, why are you awake, and why are you running around town.]

Has anyone - has anyone else seen that little girl?

[Oh, that's why.]

She's - dark hair. Not very tall. I - [Please hold, he's turning a corner, still jogging.]

Listen, people who've died can wash up here. We know that. It - it could be her.

[And Shiro is desperate to find out. One way or another. He has to know. What if it is? What if there's a chance. Just in case anyone is confused about what her he's talking about, he goes full silent hill dad calls out to something off-camera.]

Julia!

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[eudaimonikos]

...okay. Where are you?

[shiro2hero]

Market area. Just outside the mushroom jerky place.

[eudaimonikos]

Okay. I'll come check it out.

[shiro2hero]

Thank you.

I - I've seen you around. You're Michael, right? One of Vyng's friends?

[eudaimonikos]

Yeah, yeah, that's me. I've seen you around too, actually - [oh god, wait - ] Oh, were you at that whole...people trying to burn Vyng alive thing?

[He has no actual idea if Shiro was or not, mostly because he Beasted out like two seconds after showing up! He's just, you know, afraid the guy saw that.]

[shiro2hero]

Part of it? Mostly the end. Making sure he was okay, safe, that kind of thing.

[He did not see the Beast Mode Michael, nope. He'd been a little preoccupied.]

Were you?

[eudaimonikos]

Yeeeeah, briefly. Mostly during the...beginning part...

[A N Y W A Y]

Anyway, not enough of us Deerington folks left. We'd better stick together.

[And...well, if Julia is around, who's more Of Deerington than her?]

[shiro2hero]

No wonder we didn't run across each other then.

[Hah.]

Yeah - yeah, there really isn't. We're thinning out fast. Aren't we?

[eudaimonikos]

Hm. Yeah. Just stands to reason, I guess, it's been a little while.

[By human standards - but then, that's how things run here.]

[shiro2hero]

Almost four years in Deerington, over a year here.

You?

[The time got pretty fuzzy for him, after a while.]

[eudaimonikos]

Same, here. I think it was a year or two back in Deerington. I showed up when they were doing that...spring festival with all the burning.

[Years are tiny increments of time to his mind; it's hard to splice them exactly.]

[shiro2hero]

Oh, that... that was. Sure a thing that happened.

[Granted, it could have been a lot worse, but... Oof.]

[eudaimonikos]

Heh, yeah...

[Michael wasn't that fussed by it! Helps that he hadn't really known anyone there at the time.]

Could've been worse. Fire doesn't hurt me.

[shiro2hero]

Really?

That's handy. In a lot of ways.

[eudaimonikos]

Yeah, it's worked out. Cold doesn't tend to get me either - all that human temperature stuff.

[shiro2hero]

Human?

You're not?

[Just plain old curiosity here! At this point, Michael could say just about anything and Shiro probably wouldn't blink.]

[eudaimonikos]

No, I'm a demon.

[Most people around here take that sort of thing in stride! Some don't, but it hasn't really changed his approach any.]

[shiro2hero]

Oh. That's a new one for the books.

Nice to meet you officially, regardless.

[eudaimonikos]

Really? [Haven't met Paimon yet?] Well, nice meeting you, too.