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Paul Rovia ([personal profile] hippie_ninja) wrote2022-06-27 04:36 pm
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[personal profile] konstant 2022-08-28 03:31 am (UTC)(link)
"We have time."

Maybe they do, maybe they don't, but what K really means by it is that they have more than only their plans for music.

"If nothing else, this place gives us time."
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[personal profile] konstant 2022-08-28 03:40 am (UTC)(link)
"The sky," K says immediately, because he has a list of things that he could love, that would enamor him of this place and this city without exception if he could only choose how he engages with it.

It's simple, but he means it: "I'd never seen it before I came here. Or, well. Sometimes outside the biome of Los Angeles I'd catch glimpses but it was always soupy and dull, like muddy water. Or the sun was too bright and hot and would burn anything it touched. But there are clouds here, and stars, and the sun is... nice. And there's wind that doesn't make you want to hold your breath."

He speaks with quiet reverence, means every word of it and more that he's not saying.
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[personal profile] konstant 2022-08-28 04:03 am (UTC)(link)
"Crowded," he chuckles, but like there is a part of him that was programmed to be angry with rogue replicants to do his job better, there's a part of him that is forever attached to Los Angeles as his city.

"The biome was built to keep the conditions inside it hospitable for human life. You can hear the air purifiers constantly, and the vent systems controlling the temperature. There's a shield to stand in for the ozone layer and to keep out radiation, and walls all the way around to support all of it. So the air always smells the same, and feels the same, and no one that's saying anything knows where the ash that falls all the time now comes from - probably a by product of the vents. There are storms sometimes that get through but who knows what you're standing in."
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[personal profile] konstant 2022-08-29 01:35 am (UTC)(link)
"What city was that?" Jesus has seen one of K's memories but that doesn't sound like this now. That wouldn't be a memory he'd expect Jesus to talk about.
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[personal profile] konstant 2022-08-29 03:23 am (UTC)(link)
"That was the first major city to collapse in my timeline," he offers, no opinion about it either way. That was before he was activated. It's a name on a map and a handful of surviving pictures.

"That was where you lived?"
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[personal profile] konstant 2022-08-29 03:31 am (UTC)(link)
He hears farm and thinks of the miles and miles of uniform white tents on gray, wasteland sands in northern California. He knows it's not what Jesus means, but like the biome in reverse, he can't really picture it.

"Tell me about it?" Then, remembering that he's seen at least part of it, and remembering how Jesus had reacted outside the Listening Room: "If you want."
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[personal profile] konstant 2022-08-29 03:52 am (UTC)(link)
K sighs gently, a slow deep inhale and a soft exhale as he thinks about it. Pictures it, or tries to anyway. He has no idea what corn and beets and turnips smell like; he's only just getting used to dew on leaves.

But Jesus is leaning against him and he feels that hitch of movement, and his fingers squeeze ever so slightly around the other man's shoulder.

"I've never seen a real horse. Or cows, but -" The horses catch his attention. "I used to see them in movies. I always thought I'd like seeing a living one."
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[personal profile] konstant 2022-08-29 04:05 am (UTC)(link)
"I know someone who has a home outside the city. He let me stay the night there when I first arrived." It had been the most miraculous, unlooked for blessing, even if it would have been too quiet for him to sleep if he hadn't been half dead still.

"Yes. Westerns." Not that he'd forgotten the name but he wasn't sure it would be recognized the same. "They're very dramatic. I like the animals in them."
konstant: (Gauging)

[personal profile] konstant 2022-08-29 05:39 pm (UTC)(link)
He smiles, a little when he remembers that they have some of the same friends so there's a non-zero chance it's the same friend.

What he focuses on though is, "Why couldn't you?"
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[personal profile] konstant 2022-08-29 06:09 pm (UTC)(link)
"But why couldn't it be someone else that lives away from the city if not him?"

Just to be sure he's not missing anything.
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[personal profile] konstant 2022-08-29 09:10 pm (UTC)(link)
K nods, letting it go. If they were in Los Angeles he'd have more resources, he'd know who to ask. Not here.

"Are you talking about Vrenille?" he asks instead.
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[personal profile] konstant 2022-08-29 11:21 pm (UTC)(link)
K smiles.

"That's the person I was talking about, too," is all.

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