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[alt_regulus]

It's dark as pitch

behind you, the bright one

there, low in the south, with the Lyrids shooting

like hexes towards you, past you

   there: one

       another

 

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[alt_pansy]

You can bet she's committing every word of that to memory.

You're right, though. I think the key is to find out which people's opinions you really do care about, and just not bothering with the rest, because why waste the energy?

[alt_pansy]

good.

[alt_pansy]

It's getting late. I'd better try and get some sleep.

Good night, Pirate.

[alt_regulus]

That's a good idea, I think.


Good night, Pansy.

[alt_sirius]

Have a good chat?

I've been watching. Didn't want to interrupt.

[alt_regulus]

Oh, now. That's not creepy at all.

[alt_sirius]

You should know.

Anyway, I didn't mean it like that. I just meant

I didn't want to chase her off.

[alt_sirius]

You're between Mars and Jupiter, here.

And there's one - right past you.

ORDER ONLY

[alt_alice]

You just keep drawing one another in, don't you?

Please be careful, love. I know how you can get when you talk to him.

[alt_regulus]

Yeah. Thanks for that.

She's a good

kid

person

She thinks about other people, you know, and also she just thinks. About what things mean, about what people are about. She thinks.

Re: ORDER ONLY

[alt_sirius]

I know. 've been drinking thinking about it most of the day.

Promised myself I wouldn't, though. Not tonight.

[alt_regulus]

Yeah.

So where are you?

I don't mean where where, but what kind of place?

I'm in the great park. Nothing but wand light here. And you.

[alt_sirius]

I've noticed that.

Not that I've had the

No

Yes, you're right.

So. It's poetry again? Does London still have tatty coffeehouses where everyone wears berets?

[alt_sirius]

Me? Why, I'm at the Elysian, of course, waiting for you to drop by.

[alt_regulus]

Not so many. Berets are a bit out of fashion here these days

[alt_regulus]

Right.

Nice chatting, then.

G'night.

[alt_regulus]

Oh, look.

I'm just tired of it.

Just tired.

Can't we just

Right.

Never mind.

[alt_sirius]

Don't

I wasn't taking the piss, all right?

Fine.

I'm outside, as well.

Somewhere... quiet.

[alt_sirius]

Oi, you started off wanting to talk. So? Talk to me.

I've been waiting all this time.

Just

She's right, you know. It's important to know whose opinions matter.

Trouble is sometimes the ones who matter aren't the ones you want to care about, but you do, nevertheless.

It's not as easy as saying you're done.

[alt_regulus]

It's not as easy as saying you're done. Too right, there.

Oh, I don't know, Sirius. I just don't.


The trouble is some opinions trump all.

[alt_regulus]

Good.


Quiet is good.

[alt_sirius]

It's thinking like that that made me leave. Made me need to leave.

You've just changed one tyrant for another. It's the same trap.

And do you really think escaping was equal to not standing up?

[alt_regulus]

Home wasn't a trap. And he was strict, but not a tyrant. He just thought what he thought, and you had to fight him, but for what? A bike and some notions about making things 'fair' by giving up everything we had?

I don't know.

I don't.

[alt_regulus]

It looks like there's a war up there in the darkness.

I can't tell who's winning.

[alt_sirius]

Not to you, maybe. Things changed once they thought you were their only hope. Didn't need me anymore, did they?

And it wasn't about giving up everything. It's about

Being decent to people. Isn't that what you meant when you said your friend thinks about people?

Look what his way creates - horrid little hags like the one you were discussing. That's your future down the road.

Is that really what you want?