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[a_titanum]

"Leave your message, if you care to."

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[monsterjohann]

"Yes. But there's also - something freeing about it. For those moments in the fall, I'm back to being what I was before I came to shore. Nothing to think about, nothing to worry about. It's pure sensation. But it's always too short."

[a_titanum]

"Then you wish to be free of me?" he asks, and there's no heat to the words, no barbs, but there is a very obvious curiousity.

[monsterjohann]

"That's impossible. You've always been with me. Even before."

Said as a plain fact, something that he doesn't and can't dispute.

[a_titanum]

"But I am without you, then," he points out, "so I cannot say I like the idea of it being anything but short."

[monsterjohann]

"Don't worry. You will be there for my longest fall."

He is certain of that and only that in his life.

[a_titanum]

"You were there for mine," he says in reply.

[monsterjohann]

Johann moves onto his back, draping an arm over his face.

"Yeah, I remember. Must you always remind me?"

[a_titanum]

"You say that as if I remind you every day, every hour. You raised the topic, Johann, not me. Don't be sour about it."