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[cranekin]

WHO: (cranekin) & you
WHAT: catch-all for october
WHERE: Poison Garden, around the city
WHEN: October
WARNINGS: light body horror

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[cranekin]

(He takes the piece back and is careful when he closes his fingers around it.)

This form is quite human. (Stiffly, he holds out his arms as if to show himself off,) It gets tired, it needs to eat, it gets sick, it bleeds, and all other human things.

(And yet, there's that lingering "but" in the air. Like there's more to be said,)

But this isn't my true form. I'm not human; just a thing in human form.

[justscribing]

Are you a thing made of metal, or something else? [Because that begs the question, then, if the tea is meant to reveal a true state or if it's meant to twist you into something else. The second is safer to assume, if only because most people here are probably as naturally human (or whatever they are) as he is.]

[cranekin]

Tsurumaru Kuninaga.

(He raises a hand to his chest, right over his heart and he bows stiffly, )

Forged in the Heian era and passed down from owner to owner. I'm quite renowned where I'm from... (And he studies Alhaitham's expression to see if any of those names mean anything to him. Seeing nothing, though--) ... As a beautiful sword.

[justscribing]

[Youkai, then, like Kaijin. Alhaitham looks over Tsurumaru with consideration.]

And is this form something you had before, or something you gained in the city?

[cranekin]

(Tilting his head,)

Are you worried this city might change you? (Is that why he's asking?) I had this form for some time before I arrived here.

[justscribing]

I see no reason to worry about it. [Because of it can and will, what will he do to stop it? What can he do? Solutions and preparations are worth more than concern, and if that isn't possible... well, no reason to concern with it at all.]

Simply curious about how far it's already gone to change people to fit into it.

You're experiencing the consequences. What are you going to do about it?

[cranekin]

Is that why you're always watching?

(He'd observed him the last time too but at least the ice cram parlor had been mostly harmless (even if he still thinks he was dying).)

Keep it together, of course. What good will falling apart do?

[justscribing]

[Tsuruno asks why he's always watching. In fact, there is much that can be learned from simple observation. Apply a little patience to one's life to look and listen, and you come away with pieces that build up to a bigger picture, clearer truth, better solution.

The turn of phrase causes the slightest quirk in his expression. It is the shift in his shoulders as he leans an elbow forward.] And how's that going for you?