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[oraorarush]

Didn't you say something about making them explain it as simply as possible? You should have expected pictures.

[hierophany]

I didn't think they'd want to explain. I don't know where they even found pictures!

[oraorarush]

Bet they found them especially for you.

[hierophany]

I really, truly hope they didn't. I don't want to have anything more to do with those images than I already do.

Something keeping you awake?

[oraorarush]

You had to expect it would backfire somehow.

Just stuff on my mind. I didn't message you to complain, I just figured you'd be awake, too.

[hierophany]

I thought I was bothering an innocent call centre employee! Not someone who had been waiting for an excuse to share their collection of incredibly specific porn!

[oraorarush]

Is all of this why you're awake at this time?

[hierophany]

The network's online encyclopedia doesn't have entries for a single baseball team.

I've been fixing it.

[oraorarush]

[. . . what]

Are you fucking with me?

[hierophany]

I'm halfway through an entry for the Buffaloes.

[oraorarush]

I see.

Why?

[hierophany]

Because nobody else thought to add one, obviously.

[oraorarush]

I didn't know Japanese baseball was that important here.

[hierophany]

Neither did the entire userbase of gemstonepedia.

So if it's any consolation, you're not the only one who's wrong.

[oraorarush]

I don't follow baseball so I'm fine with that. I don't even live in Japan anymore to follow it.

[hierophany]

You would enjoy it. Baseball statistics are fascinating. And very useful for making people stop talking to you.

I should clarify that that wasn't intended as a hint, just as a reason you might enjoy it. If I wanted you to stop talking I would say so.

You left Japan?

[oraorarush]

If I started rattling off baseball statistics I think people would think that something was wrong with me. But they're interesting, from what I have seen.

I didn't think you were, though. You'd tell me to fuck off if that's what you wanted.

Yeah. Went to the states for university and ended up staying there.

[hierophany]

As a rule, when people think there's something wrong with a person they choose to stop talking to them. You're the exception.

And here I thought you'd have had enough of going all over the world.

[oraorarush]

See, so it wouldn't work. My usual method works fine. I think you just want me to learn about baseball stats.

You'd think that. But I do even more of it now.

[hierophany]

And here I thought I'd be able to trick you.

[ It's probably for work. Or for his studies. Or because Miss Holly lives in Japan, still, and he has to visit. It has to be one of those, because it can't be that it didn't end. He probably shouldn't need to ask, because there's any number of perfectly good reasons that one might travel that aren't the one that seems horrifying. ]

Why?

[oraorarush]

You know better than most that I'm not that easy.

For research, sometimes. I'll visit my mom or my grandma and the old man. Sometimes I go home to see my kid.

[he could leave it there. He could leave it there because it's the truth, but not all of it. He doesn't really have to elaborate.

But he does anyway]

But it's mostly doing work with the foundation. That piece of shit might be dead, but his influence isn't.

[hierophany]

[ Here's the thing about dying: you usually don't get to know what happens next. You get to live, 'live', in a world where the people you love are probably doing just fine. Where they're safe. Where this all ends, and you don't have to know about whatever's going to hurt them next.

There aren't many perks, but that's one.

He doesn't get to be dead anymore. And that's nice. He's a fan, for the most part, of not being dead. But it means he doesn't get to pretend that things stop happening once he stops happening. Time doesn't stop. Not any more than it would otherwise.

This should be over. It should have ended on a January night. in Cairo.

Also what the fuck 'sometimes'. Who sees their kid 'sometimes'??? ]

I don't think you told me that you had a kid. How old are they?

[oraorarush]

I was going to tell you the next time we met up, actually.
She's seven back home. Here she's nineteen.

[it was at the top of the list of things he wanted to tell Kakyoin, no thanks in part to talking to Jolyne about him. He had to wonder if somehow, they'd already met. That would be his luck, and how it's gone so far here]

[hierophany]

Oh.

[ He has, in fact, met Jolyne. In fact, this information kind of explains the offscreen incident that's been bothering him enough to keep him up this late making gemstonepedia articles about baseball teams instead of pointedly not thinking too much about it. ]

I have a girlfriend.

[ This is a lie. And, on the surface, kind of irrelevant. And he immediately regrets it because FUCK what is he going to say her name is when the fake name he gave Kirigiri is also Jotaro's mom's name fuck fuck fuck.

But also fuck you. He knows how kids happen. He can also enter relationships with people after he dies. ]

[oraorarush]

Do you?

[he doesn't think "that's fast" or anything like that. He doesn't think any of the things he probably should or wants to. Really, there's only two things he thinks of and he goes with the second, as the first thought blips by too quickly for him to grasp]

Congratulations?

[that's what you're supposed to say, right?]

My wife and are separated. [since they're giving their marital statuses, apparently]