audio; 4/6 late night / early morning ish

[thxforthememories]

[It's probably around midnight or so when the post pops up. Or close enough to it that the effects of the red energon have finally worn off. He can touch things now. He's no longer a ghost.]

[And... still considerably unsettled and upset by recent events. Enough to make the following statement:]

I ... I want to learn how to be drunk.

[Because that seems like a great idea. It always worked for his role models around here, after all.]

Someone. Show me how. I'll be grateful.

[And that's all he says. He'll be at the bar, an unhappy pile of metal and wings. Waiting.]

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[thxforthememories]

[And he totally copies him.]

It might be.

[loyalflier]

It's not.

[ sounds pretty confident there. or maybe he's just trying to comfort Kagerou. ]

[thxforthememories]

But.

I know him.

I should have... Why else would he hate me now?

[loyalflier]

Probably doesn't. Probably embarrassed.

[thxforthememories]

But...!

But he can tell me anything. He's -- I was there when he walked. For the first time. He almost fell.

It was embarrassing.

But I didn't laugh!

[loyalflier]

It's different, I think. Maybe he's scared that he might have ruined things?

[thxforthememories]

But.

He should talk to me.

That's what you're supposed to do. You're supposed to talk.

[loyalflier]

Maybe you should hunt him down and force him too.

[thxforthememories]

I'm not sure how... he would take that.

He's the wolf, he's supposed to do the hunting.

[Kagerou what.]

[loyalflier]

Doesn't make sense...

[ you're robots, not organics, kiddo. you had noticed that, right? ]

[thxforthememories]

That's what he turns into.

I turn into a bird. [He frowns.] And a car.

[loyalflier]

But birds are hunters as well...

[ they totally are. they hunt insects and stuff. what's the problem really. ]

[thxforthememories]

...




They are?

[loyalflier]

Some eat other birds. Some snatch insects from the sky...

[ waving hand about with a smile. ]

[thxforthememories]

I ... didn't know that. I didn't know birds ate. Things.

[loyalflier]

[ nodding. there goes another cube. ]

Some do, yes...

[ here comes the approximation of robot squinting. ]

Why was I saying that?

[thxforthememories]

Because I'm a bird.

[He says that in total seriousness, too.]

[loyalflier]

Don't look much like a bird to me.

[ already had too much to drink, mmhmm. ]

[thxforthememories]

[He sort of drunkenly flutters his wings.]

I turn into one!

[loyalflier]

You will have to show me sometime. Maybe even fly together.

[thxforthememories]

[He almost jumps right out of his seat.]

Okay!

I can do that!

[loyalflier]

Later. Not now.

[ sliiiiding another cube Kagerou's way. ]

[thxforthememories]

Oh. Right.

[It's drinking time now.]

[loyalflier]

Then you can go after that guy too.

[ the guy that they were originally talking about. ...that had been a part of this conversation, right? ]

[thxforthememories]

... No, I can't do that.

He doesn't want me to.