just decide your existence ain't a crime, keep resisting, die another day;

[recrypt]

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'Rather than anything premeditated,' would you prefer?

[ whether or not she was originally dressing him in the first place, she certainly is now. ]

It's more succinct than saying 'they were too far isolated to be able to get any help in time, they landed in just a bad enough way to deal an ultimately fatal head wound to a seasoned fighter, one of the two was too civilian to be trained in first aid or what to do in an emergency.' So forth.

[baori]

[ i'm glad that i'm exhausted while reading this tag because she's saying a lot of things that giyuu is kind of mildly squinting at. or, well, it takes him a moment to realize what she's saying exactly and he just wanders over closer to her. ]

No, I prefer keeping it as "terrible luck". [ and even though she worded it better the second go around: ] It's easier to say.

What are you out here doing?

[recrypt]

I don't know. Committing it to memory before we collectively push it out of mind, maybe.

[ to move on, or get back to business, or. what.

the simple familiarity they all have with these things by now? ]

[baori]

[ hmm.

not that he doubts her but at the same time— ]

Will you really be able to memorize all of this?

[recrypt]

No, and there's not much point to memorizing the layout, really. Not when people are in and out of here all the time.

[ bluntly, candidly. ]

... But I meant what happened here, more like.

[baori]

[ ah.

equally blunt: ]

It'll be hard to forget what happened here.

[recrypt]

Pushing it out of mind and compartmentalizing is different from simply forgetting. I think a lot of us do the former, though, whether we're aware of it or not.

[ they all deal with things somehow. ]

[baori]

[ he really won't argue that if only because he doesn't quite understand what she's talking about but also because he's guilty of it. or, well, was guilty of it. ]

Don't consider me as one of the people who would pushing it out of my mind.

I've learned to carry that weight.

[recrypt]

[ ... there's a slight change in her overall demeanor, not immediately apparent in any one of her posture, tone, or expression alone. but together...

faintly approving, marginally more relaxed, perhaps. ]

Duly noted. As an aside...

What method of address do you prefer, exactly? I believe I've heard at least two, but I can't say I'm familiar enough with the etiquette.

[baori]

[ he's glad he wins her approval(?) he thinks. clearly she knows things that giyuu is only hapless to understand, so with that in mind— ]

Either is fine; whatever you feel like.

[ the name on their passports...ump45.... that hardly sounds like a normal name, but they're hardly in a normal situation. ]

What should I call you?

[recrypt]

Hmm. Herr Tomioka... no. Herr Giyuu? Not that either. Perhaps Giyuu will do, then.

[ giyuu doesn't need the standard social niceties from her, probably. he seems the type to care more about efficiency than anything like that. ]

As for me, either Aki or 45 is fine. I'll respond to both.

[baori]

[ a name is but a means to communicate with someone. ]

Giyuu is fine. [ he trails off for a moment to consider his options. 45 or aki? one is a number while the other sounds like an actual name so it's obvious to which one he's going to pic: ] ...Aki.

[ he won't question what he saw on the passport because, well, it's not his was any better. ]