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[lucentia]

HELLO

"Greetings."

GOODBYE

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[vacuous]

It's fine. It's a little awkward to be honest, but maybe it is nice to have someone...

[ Though like, what would he talk about is his issue. ]

It's really foggy, isn't it? And grey.

[lucentia]

Indeed. Be careful not to get lost in the fog—although I suppose the point of my accompanying you is to prevent that.

[vacuous]

Oh. Yeah, thanks...

How did you say you knew me again? Through my niece...? Which side? I guess it doesn't matter that much. You're... a tutor...? English?... She's probably too young to be learning English yet, huh. How?

[lucentia]

Ah, apologies—I may have misspoke earlier. I have a younger sibling, you see, who I help look after when I'm home, and who plays with her on occasion. I met her and her family that way.

[continues lying with such a straight face that might be surprising to someone with memories of lucien considering that he's usually honest.]

[vacuous]

Oh. Okay. But you're all the way out here?

[ He kind of aimed for a place with zero acquaintances so maybe this is a bit awkward... oh well. ]

[lucentia]

[SORRY, TOKINAGA!!!]

... Well, you could say I wanted to get away from everything for a bit as well.

[vacuous]

Really? Funny coincidence.

What're you getting away from then?

[ School...? ]

[lucentia]

Mm... worried about the future, I suppose, and whether or not I'm equipped to handle it.

[vacuous]

[ Oh, yeah... he looks maybe around high school or college age, huh... ]

...Yeah, that's pretty scary stuff. Society is a lot.

[lucentia]

Any advice as my elder?

[vacuous]

...

[ Thinks about it... ]

Find someone you like...

[ Thinking about how his sisters and parents are such happy people. ]

...

[lucentia]

[...

the awkward look of someone who doesn't think this is going to happen for himself?]

[vacuous]

[ Kids these days. ]

...Find a decent workplace with decent people...

[ Still thinking about what to say. He hasn't really noticed. ]

[lucentia]

[lucien already knows that there is probably no advice tokinaga can give that he can use, but he listens to see if tokinaga is going to say anything else anyway for fun.]

[vacuous]

...Enjoy life.

[ Finishes off on that. Dead air... ]

[lucentia]

[just :man_standing: because he can't follow any of this advice. luckily he only asked to avoid having to talk more about why he's on this alleged trip, in which case he'd either have to lie or vomit disguised truths to a tokinaga who might remember later...]

... Thank you. I'll keep those things in mind.

[vacuous]

[ He just nods vaguely. Trails off into awkward silence walking. ]

[lucentia]

[he lets the silence continue for a bit as they walk, since he does feel bad that he interrupted tokinaga's solo contemplative time. lets him gather his thoughts for now...]

[vacuous]

[ No he fucking hates thinking

The point of this entire trip was to be head empty

He's doing his best to disassociate midkey he's spacing out ]

[lucentia]

[OKAY CAN YOU STOP]

Er...

[vacuous]

Oh, sorry. I was spacing out.

[ Feels genuinely bad for this kid that's just following him wherever and he's ignoring him. ]

Uh... how old are you?

[lucentia]

No, I apologize if I was interrupting your thoughts.

[blinks]

Eighteen.

[vacuous]

I'm... trying not to think, actually...

So you're in high school? You seem pretty mature for eighteen...

[lucentia]

Do I? I think I'm fairly normal.

[his other reference point for how eighteen years old act is anastasia.]

[vacuous]

That's what a mature kid would say, probably.