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[lapidarius]

"This is Kakyoin Noriaki. Please leave a message, I'll contact you as soon as I can."

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[lapidarius]

Do you know where the toy store is, near the city's center? Meet me just outside of it--there's a quiet place on the second floor that we can stay for a while. I doubt anyone will really bother us there, least of all at this time.

[sorry jojo your keys are getting borrowed]

[mylegacy]

The toy store?

[Why . . . but okay . . .]

Fine. See you soon.

[lapidarius]

[for god's sake caesar just trust his judgment and let him show you where the mafia's probably gonna start hanging out]

[it's totally cool]

[BUT WHATEVER he would just be waiting patiently with stolen liberated borrowed keys in hand and Hierophant hanging around next to him.]

Didn't have too much trouble getting here, did you?

[mylegacy]

Of course not. It's not like it's a huge city or anything.

[Caesar looks. Normal? Maybe slightly grumpier than usual. His hands are shoved in his pockets to protect against the breeze.]

[lapidarius]

You're the one that said it was dangerous.

[Shrugging, he opened the door and started upstairs and oh lookit that, it's actually kinda okay in here.]

[mylegacy]

[. . . Damnit, he can't think of anything rude to say. SHIT. Following Kakyoin anyway.]

I meant from the wildlife.

Why did you want to come here, anyway? I thought you meant a walk or something.

[lapidarius]

If you wanted to do that, we could. I just thought it'd be nice to have somewhere quiet and solitary where we wouldn't get jumped by a wendigo.

[mylegacy]

. . . I'm fine with this, thanks.

[lapidarius]

That's kind of what I thought.

[mylegacy]

You don't have to be so smug about it.

[lapidarius]

Sorry, sorry. I'll stop.

[mylegacy]

I'll believe that when I see it.

[lapidarius]

[you get the world's most Innocent Smile in response, caesar.]

[mylegacy]

[LOUDLY SHOULDERCHECKS AND SHOVES PAST UP THE STAIRS]

[lapidarius]

[OKAY OKAY geez]

[he'd just follow laughing under his breath]

[mylegacy]

[Rude . . . whatever. Once he gets to the top of the stairs, he makes a beeline for the nearest chair, one of the wooden ones by the card table. When he sits, it's clear he's holding tension in his shoulders.]

This is the place your weird friend was standing in front of without clothes on, isn't it.

[lapidarius]

[SIGH.]

For the record I had absolutely nothing to do with whatever that was. I know Polnareff lost a bet and I chose to ask as few questions as possible.

[Kakyoin dropped down onto a chair across the same table, rolling his eyes.]

But this is the place. Jotaro owns it, so I borrowed his keys to get in.

[mylegacy]

I'm not going to tell you what happened when Jojo and I met up with them, because it's awful and I don't want you to have to live with that knowledge.

. . . He just lets you take his things all the time?

[lapidarius]

...I definitely don't want to know and I'm sorry they're both idiots.

[SIIIIIIIGH.]

I left a note. Besides, I don't think he'll be looking for them right now.

[mylegacy]

Hm.

[He thinks about that for a moment, then just shrugs.]

So that's a yes.

[lapidarius]

Basically.

[No point in denying it.]

If it bothered him, I'd know. Or he'd outright tell me to knock it off.

[mylegacy]

Trusting people with your things is strange. Not family people, I mean — other people.

[lapidarius]

Is it? I don't really have much that he'd borrow--the most important thing I own technically belongs to both of us anyway. [Beat.] Then again, Polnareff and I steal each other's earrings once in a while. I never really thought much of it before.

[mylegacy]

Maybe it's just because I never had anything to share before.

[But his life is full of things now, objects and things less tangible, most of them shared so well that he doesn't know which part is his and which isn't.]

[He rakes his bangs out of his eyes, frowning.]

I'm starting to think that none of the things I'm used to are really normal.

[lapidarius]

I didn't have anyone to share them with.

[What a pair of disasters they made.]

...I've been thinking the same, occasionally.