seven | never wanted to grow up

[strike_you_out]

[Call Placement. Addressing: Mayfield. Filters: none.] 


Requesting advice... 

About teeth.  [He may be sounding a bit worried.]

Specifically, how do I... reattach one? 


[Oh, the horrors of dental maturation. Slugger doesn't understand and suspects this is some unnatural and cruel act of nature. 

ALSO, if you are one Edward Nigma, there may be something (not a tooth) hidden beneath your pillow. That something would happen to be a sheep's liver stolen from the local butcher shop. Consider it a "welcoming gift" from your new "son". Note that he has been courteous enough to wait only two days before stuffing it under there instead of the intended seven because he just couldn't contain his excitement.]

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[strike-you-out.livejournal.com]

...And that's it?

[miss-enma-ai.livejournal.com]

Yes.

Unless a new one grows in.

[strike-you-out.livejournal.com]

And that's "normal"?

[She's the 3rd or 4th to tell him that and he might be starting to believe it...]

[miss-enma-ai.livejournal.com]

I believe so.

[strike-you-out.livejournal.com]

Did it used to happen to you?

[miss-enma-ai.livejournal.com]

....Perhaps?

I don't remember....

[strike-you-out.livejournal.com]

...

You lost your memory?

[miss-enma-ai.livejournal.com]

It would have been a very long time ago.

[strike-you-out.livejournal.com]

Maybe it's better.

I wouldn't want to remember. If it were me.

[miss-enma-ai.livejournal.com]

Is it painful?

[strike-you-out.livejournal.com]

Unpleasant. [He won't admit there is pain occasionally.]

[miss-enma-ai.livejournal.com]

You have never lost a tooth before?

[strike-you-out.livejournal.com]

[He was thinking beyond that, but yeah, that was a little uncomfortable, too.]

No.

[miss-enma-ai.livejournal.com]

How old are you?

[strike-you-out.livejournal.com]

In appearance? Twelve.

[miss-enma-ai.livejournal.com]

And in years?

[strike-you-out.livejournal.com]

[Long pause.]

...

[Still the pause. He's thinking.]

Ten, on and off.

[miss-enma-ai.livejournal.com]

On and off?

Assume filtering has been in effect. I forgot.

[strike-you-out.livejournal.com]

Outside of here my existence was transient.

[He suspects he's said too much, but Ai doesn't strike him as a blabbermouth.]

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[miss-enma-ai.livejournal.com]

I see.

[That's very true.]

What are you?

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[strike-you-out.livejournal.com]

[Even so, he doesn't trust her enough to provide a direct answer.]

I was never human.

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[miss-enma-ai.livejournal.com]

A few of my companions were never human either.

A tsukumogami?

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[strike-you-out.livejournal.com]

No.

Were any of your companions bakemono?

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[miss-enma-ai.livejournal.com]

My companions are Wanyūdō, Hone Onna, a tsukumogami named Ren and a Yōkai called Yamawaro.

[And Kukuri but she's not really an assistant and they never say what she is.]

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[strike-you-out.livejournal.com]

Do you need them?