(Yuri is responding to the question of why she owns two copies of the same book) “Well, when I stopped at the bookstore yesterday… Ah, that’s not what I meant… I mean… I just… happened to buy two of them.

(This one has two lines)
(Yuri is speaking about a book) “Well, mmm.. Alright. I just wanted to make sure I didn’t accidentally give anything away. Basically, it’s about this girl in highschool who moved in with her long-lost younger sister… But as soon as she does so, her life gets really strange. She gets targeted by these people who escaped from a human experiment prison… And while her life is in danger, she needs to desperately choose who to trust.
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MC! She-She’s just trying to make me look bad…! W-Wait! There’s a reason we have so many deep and expressive words in our language! It’s the only way to convey complex feelings and meaning the most effectively! Avoiding them is not only unnecessarily limiting yourself.. it’s also a waste!

The tendrils of my hair illuminate beneath the amber glow.

Bathing.

It must be this one.

The last remaining streetlight to have withstood the test of time.

the last yet to be replaced by the sickening blue-green of the future.

I bathe. Calm; breathing air of the present but living in the past.

The light flickers.

I flicker back.