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solnet2016-07-18 10:13 pm
justribbing) wrote in solnet2016-07-18 10:13 pm
Nothing says accidental network post like pocket dialing.
[ At first, it's all black, just the loud, raspy sound of cotton against a receiver, until the image is just of dim blue interrupted by bars of fuzzy black as the rasping cuts out. Having apparently accidentally activated his phone while extracting it from his hoodie's pocket, Sans swings himself upright with the sort of hollowed-out and unreceptive expression that belongs to those who just woke up far earlier than intended.
He had pulled his phone from his pocket because it was digging into his hip. Now? He blearily gazes down on it like it offended him down to his bones. Several ways to Sunday. Not that he has much of a right to complain; of those who were snatched away for a few days under inexplicable circumstances, Sans was perhaps the last to return, crashed for a few hours, and once his phone had recharged itself on the ambient free energy transfer from the generator, a few careless movements had activated it.
It's not like anybody woke him. In any case, it's only 10:00 PM or so, and whatever ruined timepiece makes up his "internal clock" is surely totally messed up by now.
He tosses the phone aside. From its now awkward, ceiling-fixed angle, it still picks up his staggering silhouette shuffling away in a corner of the view screen. ]
Heh. Runnin' on empty. You want anything?
[ It's debatable if anyone answers, at least, in his room anyway. ]
He had pulled his phone from his pocket because it was digging into his hip. Now? He blearily gazes down on it like it offended him down to his bones. Several ways to Sunday. Not that he has much of a right to complain; of those who were snatched away for a few days under inexplicable circumstances, Sans was perhaps the last to return, crashed for a few hours, and once his phone had recharged itself on the ambient free energy transfer from the generator, a few careless movements had activated it.
It's not like anybody woke him. In any case, it's only 10:00 PM or so, and whatever ruined timepiece makes up his "internal clock" is surely totally messed up by now.
He tosses the phone aside. From its now awkward, ceiling-fixed angle, it still picks up his staggering silhouette shuffling away in a corner of the view screen. ]
Heh. Runnin' on empty. You want anything?
[ It's debatable if anyone answers, at least, in his room anyway. ]
1/2
[ This is shot back in parting, a quiet joke as he flexes his phalanges, shuffling off toward the balcony. It isn't the sort of thing he expects to get an answer. He gets it, Rin, he'll leave you be.
There's, uh, a sky full of stars to get back to, a skull full of thoughts to sort out, and--
My, what a lovely day outside...
Sans doesn't turn his head back but thinks he might have tried to ask if she'd said something, alone on the balcony, but all he sees is a table full of schoolwork. Can't--can't exactly tell if what he sees is tears swimming in the kid's eyes (no, her eyes, his, he's never had them but of course she always has) or just fatigue (or illness?).
He has never had muscle, or nerves, nor has he had the HP to really endure pain like that for... for a long while anyway. And he's out of practice or unprepared (or just young, young and determined to be so much more than her years). Her duty and her resentment, both large, heavy words and burdens for a kid so young to carry, just like that thing being put into her arm.
Too much.
(Like the future of monsters and humans.)
Too much responsibility for a child that lonely.
Yeah, he doesn't blame her for crying. ]