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[ morning, afternoon, evening, it doesn't matter when or where. you could be in the library or the computer lab or even in your own cell if the door was open. only the hint of giggling and the sudden prickly sensation on the back of your neck would alert you to the fact that you're not alone and more importantly something is definitely crawling on you--

choose to slap the cockroach or the new prisoner girl who put it there, it's up to you! it's good entertainment for her either way. ]

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Where I am...

[ shielding her eyes as she glances around, even if they're indoors and there's no sun. location, location~ ]

... Does it matter, as long as you're here too?

[openedeyes]

This time? Yes. Yes, it is. Do you remember the trial? When we had to be separated for a while.

[Satori actually sounds a little...less composed than usual.]

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[ she stares hard at Satori, but almost seems to be looking through her. her eyes were almost never focused, anyway. ]

If something like that happened, it wouldn't be worth remembering anyway.

[openedeyes]

Koishi. This is very important. I won't be angry if you honestly don't remember but I don't like it when you purposefully forget.

[she stares right back.]

[closeminded]

I don't do it on purpose!... Most of the time! [ while still trying to hold staring contest with sis, jiii. ]

[openedeyes]

That's what I mean. Most of the time you don't mean to, so I don't get angry but I know you like to 'forget' bad things. You even said that it wasn't worth remembering.

[she doesn't waver. in fact, she seems a little angry.]

Like when you brought that puppy home one day. You said him alone but it turned out that he was our neighbor's? If you're 'forgetting' like that, I will be very angry, Koishi.

[closeminded]

[ may or may not actually recognize Satori's growing anger. emotions are hard. ]

Did something like that happen?

... Actually, if it did, the puppy would've been happier with you than with our neighbor. I know if I were a dog I would be. [ flawless logic. ]

[openedeyes]

Of course it happened. I spent hours on the phone with that neighbor, the police, and the manager of the apartment building for weeks.

[she doesn't mean to get mad but... this is for Koishi's own good.]

Do you even realize that we aren't going home?

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Woow, that's a lot of people! Way more than I thought you could handle, sis.

[ not trying to be insulting. maybe. you can't tell with Koishi. she blinks, but trying to explain anything to her is a trying process. ]

... We're not?

[openedeyes]

Koishi. Our neighbors hated us both and our pets. After that, they didn't want us living in the building. After all, you might just steal one of their pets or even one of their children.

[a sigh]

No. Even if we were to leave this place, the manager wouldn't want us going back to the apartment.

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Gross, I wouldn't steal a baby! They're not as cute as puppies. There's no point!

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... He didn't want us there in the first place. Nobody there did. Nothing lost there, either.

[openedeyes]

Koishi. Even if our neighbors hated us, that was our home. We spent years there and all our pets were there. We won't see any of our pets again, either. They took them away.

Every single one.

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[ oh. well, that's something she can understand.

she just stares blankly back at Satori, as if unsure what to think about this. thinking and being serious about anything is difficult for her. ]

[openedeyes]

Do you understand it now?

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They're gone? All of them? Orin and Okuu...

[openedeyes]

That's right. Even Orin and Okuu.

[closeminded]

... Unfair. That's unfair of them, not being with us.

[openedeyes]

We're in prison, Koishi. You know you what that is.

[closeminded]

I think I do! But this is my first time being in jail, sis.

[openedeyes]

We're going to be here a long time.

[closeminded]

How long?

[openedeyes]

Twenty years.

[closeminded]

[ trying to imagine that... ]

We're going to be so old--!

[openedeyes]

Do you know why it's important now you have to be careful?