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[lucentia]

HELLO

"Greetings."

GOODBYE

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[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.

[lucentia]

[a little laugh]

Is that how it works?

[vacuous]

Otherwise you'd probably be surprised or have an ego about it.

[lucentia]

I don't know that I've met anyone who purportedly claimed to be mature, so I'll have to take your word for it.

[vacuous]

It probably sounds a bit full of yourself if you're the one telling other people you are.

[lucentia]

Yes, it does tend to sound quite arrogant if you speak of your own virtues. Though I do also believe people should be confident in what they're good at.

[vacuous]

Sure. As long as they're not jerks about it.

[lucentia]

Do you speak from experience with these "jerks"?

[vacuous]

...Not people acting like they're mature for their age... Just...

...Self-important, selfish people and stuff...

[lucentia]

... From work?

[vacuous]

Yeah.

[lucentia]

... I can see why you chose to quit.

[vacuous]

I just couldn't do it anymore. Weird, right. I'd still been going to work despite everything... then one morning, I just couldn't bring myself to do it.