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[asthecroweflies]

[It's very early in the morning, but Jagger sounds wide awake.]

Did anybody else feel that?

[It's a brief question, his tone urgent. He's also not offering any details, because he's wondering how many know what he's talking about.]

Comments

[skyward_eyes]

Well now that is a useful talent!

[asthecroweflies]

It causes a lot of problems but yeah, I've gotten some use out if it.

[skyward_eyes]

Problems? That would make my job so much better. I sorta envy it.

[asthecroweflies]

Except for all the memories, no matter how traumatic, becoming yours. That's a fairly large negative.

[skyward_eyes]

Wait, you retain them?

[asthecroweflies]

Yep. The good, the bad, I feel it just like the person who left the imprint did.

It, in a word, blows.

[skyward_eyes]

Oh geez. Does it happen every time you touch something?

[asthecroweflies]

A lot of the time, yeah. That's why I wear gloves, mate.

[skyward_eyes]

Wouldn't the gloves be a thing you were touching?

[asthecroweflies]

That's...different. They're mine.

[skyward_eyes]

But they aren't when you first acquire them.

[asthecroweflies]

I've had them for years, mate, and when I first got them, I learned they came from Singapore and were packaged by a little old lady who worked because it filled her days instead of remembering she'd just lost her husband to a stroke. That memory's still there, but lots of others have layered on top.

Happy?

[skyward_eyes]

Not happy. I'm sorry that's what you have to live with.

[asthecroweflies]

She's...more a comforting presence than anything, anymore, unless you mean in a general sense, because yeah. It's shitty.

[skyward_eyes]

Well, I'll try and remember not to touch you.

[asthecroweflies]

Sometimes it can't be helped, but I've gotten used to it. I try not to look. It's sort of like...constantly nearly walking in on someone in the loo, you know?

[skyward_eyes]

That can't be very comfortable for you. I'm sorry.

[asthecroweflies]

Thanks, but it's just...normal I guess? Anyway, something happened, and I don't like it.

[skyward_eyes]

You and me both. Even this conversation hasn't given me enough time to be free of my headach.

[asthecroweflies]

Same.

I get the impression this is going to suck, but maybe I'm just pessimistic.

[skyward_eyes]

I have to agree. Things like this don't bode well. Maybe we're realistic.

[asthecroweflies]

That's what I like to think, but evidently that "fatalistic".

[skyward_eyes]

Anyone who calls it fatalistic hasn't survived enough ends of the world yet.

[asthecroweflies]

I've never survived the end of the world before. Maybe I am fatalistic.

[skyward_eyes]

Well then, I guess you are a fatalist. I'm just going to see how many world ends I can survive.