Owl to Light Yagami
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(The struck-out words are still legible, although both the handwriting and the crossing out look increasingly erratic.)
To Light Yagami
We have a problem. I visited Hogsmeade this morning to buy a wand, and on the way back to the castle encountered a man threatening an old woman for her handbag. I attempted to use
The 'no death field' is supposed to be confined to Hogwarts campus, but I was definitely
The Notebook is no longer
I tried to couldn't it doesn't work I
The Book is
God. I need to speak with you.
Mikami
Not long after the letter was delivered, there was a frantic knocking at Light Yagami's door.
If Mikami had looked frightened when confessing the soup incident, that was nothing compared to how he looked now. He also had a cut lip. He'd had to defend the woman with the handbag, after all.
We have a problem. I visited Hogsmeade this morning to buy a wand, and on the way back to the castle encountered a man threatening an old woman for her handbag. I attempted to use
The 'no death field' is supposed to be confined to Hogwarts campus, but I was definitely
The Notebook is no longer
I tried to couldn't it doesn't work I
The Book is
God. I need to speak with you.
Mikami
Not long after the letter was delivered, there was a frantic knocking at Light Yagami's door.
If Mikami had looked frightened when confessing the soup incident, that was nothing compared to how he looked now. He also had a cut lip. He'd had to defend the woman with the handbag, after all.
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Date: 2008-07-29 07:33 pm (UTC)"Mikami, have you thought of any reason why the notebook would not work?"
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Date: 2008-07-29 07:44 pm (UTC)"I - I was outside the field," he explains. It's not quite babbling yet. "And I spelled the name correctly, I know I did, it was a simple name, John Baker, I got it right, I know..." He looks up at Light, pleading. "Your father. In the Sorting Room, after he attacked me, he used a Summoning Charm to find out whether I had the Note, I thought - I've assumed that he performed it incorrectly..." Please, he doesn't add, tell me he got it wrong.
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Date: 2008-07-29 08:09 pm (UTC)"I doubt my father would get the charm wrong," he stares at Mikami completely serious. "Since the notebook could not be summoned, nor could it work when you are so sure that you got the name right and was out of the no kill zone, then maybe there is something wrong with the notebook itself." There's no maybe about it, but he wants Mikami to realise that himself.
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Date: 2008-07-29 08:21 pm (UTC)"...but - but I was sure! The names were all there, I checked them before I - they couldn't have!"
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Date: 2008-07-29 08:29 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-07-29 08:38 pm (UTC)But it's all an excuse. It's all lies. He failed God, he failed the world, Near lived and Kira died (like a rabid animal) and the world slipped back into chaos and it's all his fault and Near's lifespan was shorter, how could he not have seen it?
(you couldn't live without your illusions)
"G-God..." He looks up at Light through his hair, face streaked with tears. "What - what are you going to do?"
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Date: 2008-07-29 10:04 pm (UTC)"What do you expect me to do, in this world where Kira has no recorded existence beyond the memories of those that already know of the new world's failure? Where I have neither the Death Note nor my memories?" When your god could not act under suspision, how do you believe he can when the truth is known.
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Date: 2008-07-29 11:02 pm (UTC)God isn't bound by temporal paradoxes, surely.
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Date: 2008-07-30 12:04 am (UTC)Light does not want the crying man to redirect his overemotional state into anger towards the person who already agreed to not change the future, so making it about Mikami more than himself should be distracting enough from that.
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Date: 2008-07-30 06:50 pm (UTC)"...you are too merciful," he breathes. "I don't - can't deserve your forgiveness."
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Date: 2008-07-30 09:09 pm (UTC)"What will you do now, Mikami?" he withdraws his hand.
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Date: 2008-07-30 09:18 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-07-30 11:02 pm (UTC)"You'll have to figure out what you can do on your own. I have nothing I need for you to do now."
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Date: 2008-07-30 11:21 pm (UTC)He does understand. It's not even a matter of punishment or forgiveness. There's nothing to be done in this place, but that doesn't make the words hurt any less.
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Date: 2008-07-30 11:31 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-07-30 11:45 pm (UTC)"My God," he whispers, climbing shakily to his feet. "I promise, I swear, that I will atone for this. I will do - anything I can, anything you wish. I will give my life for you if you order it, I promise..."