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[betrayedblade]

...perhaps I miss the old routine a bit much. This new one, while nice and cozy, makes only for a decent vacation. Yes, even despite the odd happenstances here and there. It is too...boring.

[He pauses. He's complaining. And he realizes he's turned the communicator without much thinking about it. He was past due for an update anyway, before he discovered for himself just what sort of energy the device packed, and had been thinking about it before he started in on the complaints of this place. Ah well.]

Boring. Listen to me--complaining like some sort of youngster who has nothing better than to get into trouble every day. I converse much too often with giovani here and start to reminiscence on my old lifestyle as if I could get away with what I used to.

[He sighs.] I am getting old. When you start saying 'I'm getting too old for this' it is well past time you are too old for...things.

...Ugh. Now I'm using circular arguments and boring unto death those silly enough to listen to these devices.

[...]

Though I can't help but to miss the action back home. Not just the routine... but the purpose. What purpose is there here?

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[vengefulblades.livejournal.com]

Why not tell her? She will find out eventually, there are many who know the two of you and it will not take long for someone to make the connection.

[He stiffens somewhat at the mention of her secret, you know the one he kept for the most part.]

It was a secret. I only told you where I was, not the circumstances. And I did not speak a word of it to anyone else. [Then it dawns on him.]...She believes I told you, doesn't she?

[withoutawing.livejournal.com]

It is indeed. I find it is more annoying when others tell me to find something to do if I think it is dull.

[betrayedblade.livejournal.com]

That is hardly beside the point, after all. [He agrees, definitely.]

[betrayedblade.livejournal.com]

...I'm not sure anyone is really agreeing with me, Utena. Quite the opposite; they are more than happy to tell me to quit complaining like a child.

Basically.

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[betrayedblade.livejournal.com]

Possibly. [He doesn't look as sheepish as he sounds, but he is repressing the urge to out-right grin for humility's sake. Your father isn't even remotely apologetic for his actions, Ezio.] Probably.

I'm sorry it was easy to figure out and that I mentioned it when she brought up her own woes--I thought they were petty and uncalled for really. [He waves a hand dismissively into the air.] And be that as it may, I have no intention of telling her who I am myself. (Neither does it bother me if someone tells her or she figures it out on her own.) When the conversation hit a certain point--just before she started defending you while trying to sound as though she wasn't--I couldn't help it anymore. The way she was talking about you to me of all people...

[Grand pause for dramatics.]

It was amusing. [He shrugs, not looking nearly as innocent as he probably should for the confession. Have a taste of your real dad, Ezio, and not the super!dad you once thought of him as. Whoops.]

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[saw-utopia.livejournal.com]

I haven't found such a thing in a very long time.

[saw-utopia.livejournal.com]

May I ask you a question? To satisfy a little curiosity.

[withoutawing.livejournal.com]

Indeed. We are men used to a certain kind of action. This laziness is not suited to our natures.

[princelyrose.livejournal.com]

You're voicing your- [She sighs, sounding frustrated.]

No one can get along here, can they? It's not like people keep quiet all the time and no one complains, you know.

[betrayedblade.livejournal.com]

Mostly, I think, because they wouldn't recognize it to say it. There are plenty out there.

Go ahead.

[betrayedblade.livejournal.com]

I very well know. I also know that just as many people tell the others to zitto!, to be quiet. Everyone has their own way of being tired and put up with this nonsense. I do not need to add to all the frustration.

But I have. And I am beginning to regret it.

[betrayedblade.livejournal.com]

Sì, sì. Busying ourselves with actions only similar to what we're used to is hardly satisfying.

[withoutawing.livejournal.com]

Yet there is little else this place can offer us. It is not as if the monsters are worthy of our time save as slight amusement.

All I can offer is some games.

[princelyrose.livejournal.com]

People voice their opinions every day. It may hurt or offend someone, but...that's just how it is. I mean, you can apologize for offending them, but it's still your opinion and it's not like anyone can keep you, or others, quiet.

I don't think it's right to keep people quiet when things are wrong.

[saw-utopia.livejournal.com]

I should hope so, for their sake.

You're from Italy, is that right?

[betrayedblade.livejournal.com]

Are you saying you pity such people?

It is.

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[vengefulblades.livejournal.com]

[Blinks. Blinks again. Ok Papa you are starting to creep him out just a bit, but for the most part he sees this as beginning to be pretty damn funny.]

Well, I suppose I am glad she gave a half hearted attempt at defending my honor from my own father. That's one worry off my shoulders. [He is smirking by now the sarcasm clear and snarky in his voice.]

Amusing for you perhaps! You do not have to go and listen to her upset ramblings while I try to sort this out. Papa...I had no idea your sense of humor was so...[He can't find the word for it so he'll go with the next best thing.] I see where Federico got his from now.

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[sing-nonomori.livejournal.com]

Purpose is thing you choose.

You do not always choose place you are. You choose where you go.

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[betrayedblade.livejournal.com]

There is no where to go here Yorda. You don't understand. It's not even a physical destination I crave. It's not a place that I need. It's not even--

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[sing-nonomori.livejournal.com]

I do understand. I did not choose to be born of dead children. I did not choose to be in cage, or to come here. I did choose to run, I choose to learn how to fight, to speak, to know. I choose to stay.

When we find way back to other world, when that day come, I know you go home. You find family. You be with them. You are lucky. So lucky, to have such thing.

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[betrayedblade.livejournal.com]

I would gladly take anyone who wished it back with me, home with me, and take care of them forever.

[techoutmystaff.livejournal.com]

[A chuckle.]

I do understand. I don't have as much to work with here as I do back home, so it.. isn't as intellectually stimulating in some ways. And it isn't home, and Master Splinter isn't here.

But there's a lot of new people to meet and some are smarter than me! It's pretty exciting.

[foxtamer.livejournal.com]

It is not the same as I once had, either... I've gone from being the leader of an entire village to an teacher of a few handfuls. Still, it's nice to be alive.

But it cannot replace my wife and son, even now.

[betrayedblade.livejournal.com]

I am glad for you.

[But he is no less better off than before.]

[betrayedblade.livejournal.com]

Do you really think my family is the only thing missing?