::Open RP - Welcome to the Confusion!::

[hikikomoriways.livejournal.com]

So, the talking hat (which was somehow more intimidating than a talking fridge) had placed Satou in Ravenclaw. The trouble was,he had no idea what that meant, and the bizarre little bug-eyed big-eared creatures he'd seen scuttling around unnerved him too much to try and ask.

He had, however, taken Kurama's promise of free room and board to heart, and a bit of wandering had lead him to the Great Hall, which happened to have a modest buffet laid out. Jackpot! Before anyone could tell him he couldn't, he took a plate and began piling on fish and chips (mostly fish).

That was the board part seen to. Now he needed to sort out the room.

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[oneof-me.livejournal.com]

"They don't belong to the conspiracy?"

[hikikomoriways.livejournal.com]

"Well, I don't," he said, looking down with embarrassment. This was dangerously close to flirting.

[oneof-me.livejournal.com]

"Oh. I see."

Unity was, unfortunately, about to make the embarrassment worse. It wasn't her fault. There were rules for conversation, and the usual response to learning someone's occupation happened to be one she knew.

"That sounds interesting. What kind of games do you create?"

[hikikomoriways.livejournal.com]

Worse indeed! He flushed a humiliated red.

"Certainly not a hentai game! I'm certainly not some pervert making eroges for other sickos! Ha, ha, why would you think that? Ha, that's ridiculous, really."

[oneof-me.livejournal.com]

She blinked. "I wasn't thinking that. I don't even know what hentai means."

[hikikomoriways.livejournal.com]

"Ah, ha ha, why are we talking about it, then? no need to bring it up!"

[oneof-me.livejournal.com]

"You brought it up," Unity pointed out. "But I will refrain from making the assumption that you are a pervert. Thank you for informing me."

Yes, that was entirely sincere.

[hikikomoriways.livejournal.com]

She sounded so straightforwardly earnest that Satou just had to stare.

"You're making fun of me, aren't you?"

[oneof-me.livejournal.com]

"...no." She looked startled. "I'm not."

[hikikomoriways.livejournal.com]

"Really?" he asked, sounding very much unconvinced.

[oneof-me.livejournal.com]

"Definitely."

[hikikomoriways.livejournal.com]

"I want to believe you," he said a little mournfully.

[oneof-me.livejournal.com]

"It's true. I'm still not especially good at lying. And I like you."

[hikikomoriways.livejournal.com]

"You do?" That was suspicious, and he was instantly wary. "Why? Why would you do that?"

[oneof-me.livejournal.com]

"Because you're isolated, and sad, and I want to help you. You remind me of someone I once knew."

[hikikomoriways.livejournal.com]

That was a little Misaki-like, and therefore didn't entirely alleviate his suspicions, but it was a beautiful woman speaking kindly to him and Satou was far from immune to such things.

"I feel sorry for him, if he was like me."

[oneof-me.livejournal.com]

"He was similar. He understood clocks, but not humans."

[hikikomoriways.livejournal.com]

"Clocks? Are they difficult? I mean, you look at them and they say what time it is."

[oneof-me.livejournal.com]

"He made them. He was the greatest clockmaker in that world."

[hikikomoriways.livejournal.com]

"Oh..." He got the feeling she didn't mean the sort of clockradio he had in his little apartment. "You mean the kind with gears, that tick?"

[oneof-me.livejournal.com]

"That's right. Of course, he had an advantage in that he wasn't entirely human. He was the son of Time."

[hikikomoriways.livejournal.com]

First there was the guy who claimed to be a country, and now this woman was telling him she knew someone who was the... son of Time? "That doesn't even make sense. How would that work?"

[oneof-me.livejournal.com]

She frowned. "It - can't truly be explained, accurately, in any human language. The easiest way is to say 'the personification of Time'. She fell in love with a mortal."

[hikikomoriways.livejournal.com]

It was still fairly nonsensical, and very much like the guy Satou had met at his sorting. "Is that like the 'personification' of Austria?"

[oneof-me.livejournal.com]

Unity nodded. "Humans always feel a need to imagine concepts like those in their own image."