ƒ021. misery

[msattentionspan]

[As the journal opens it picks up the sound of a door shutting. She moves out of the room she'd been and down the hallway, starting an open dialog.]

You know, I never was big into all that zen, in with the good out with the bad crap, but if it would help me right now? I'd get one of those giant goldfish ponds and stare at the water.

[She holds the book in one hand, flexing her free hand at her side.]

I'm up for suggestions to work through this -- [Frustration. Upset. Anger. Take your pick.] -- whatever it is, because hitting something is pretty much my go-to thing and I'm not sure anyone wants to go a few rounds with me right now.


Steve ]

I know it's late and maybe you are dealing with your own shit, but if you want to go a few rounds, I'm probably gonna end up in the gym here in the castle.

[and she heads to the gym. as she puts her jacket on a bench, she goes back to the journal, a bit more calm.]
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Reno ]

If you need alcohol because of those things taking it from the bar -- place I'm staying at had three bars in it. I've got plenty of backstock.

--

[She puts her journal away and centers the bag, moving to start taking out her aggression on the thing.]

Comments

[msattentionspan]

Yeah. Castle doesn't have much in the way of alcohol these days. [and that's where she's at right now. at her place, in the city, she's got plenty.]

It doesn't help anyway. [She can't just get drunk and forget.]

[likebreathing]

Sorry.

[He's not sure what he would have done without the help of alcohol in recent years.]

What about beating up someone?

[msattentionspan]

Next on my to-do list, but I'm not thinking it's gonna be enough.

[likebreathing]

[.....]

That bad, huh?

[msattentionspan]

Yeah. Been a long week.

[She pauses.] You new here?

[likebreathing]

You could say that. [He shrugs, even though she can't see it.]

Been here a few days. Getting the hang of being in this place. Trying to figure out what the hell it was I lost.

[Good times, good times.]

[msattentionspan]

Usually it's something important. It'll probably come to you eventually. Shouldn't lose sleep over it. The castle'll screw you over soon enough.

[likebreathing]

[Ohhh, he's not liking the sound of that.]

You mean they haven't already screwed me over by takin' something from me?

[msattentionspan]

[She smirks a bit.]

Yeah, sorry to be the one to tell you but this place is like a non-stop amusement park of crazy shit.

[likebreathing]

I hate amusement parks. [Argh.] And here I thought I could get a break from all the crazy shit that always happens.

My boss would probably be laughing his head off at me.

[msattentionspan]

Yeah? Your boss got a sick sense of humor?

[likebreathing]

Not usually, no. His dupes do sometimes, but that's a whole other can of worms.

[Eh, no harm in being open about things.]

Used to work for a detective agency. We got a ton of weird-ass cases.

[msattentionspan]

His dupes?

[likebreathing]

Duplicates. [It's a clarification he doesn't mind making anymore.] Every time he's involved in some sort of collision, he creates a duplicate version of himself. They look exactly like him, talk like him, have a lot of his memories...comes in handy sometimes, but most of the time they're just a pain.

[msattentionspan]

Sounds creepy.

[She frowns.]

What kind of collision?

[likebreathing]

That's an understatement. [Eyeroll.] One of 'em tried to kill me, once.

[But that's neither here nor there.]

Any kinda collision, as long as there's energy transferred. He runs into a wall, someone punches him....anything like that and he makes a dupe. Punch him multiple times....well, they don't call him the Multiple Man for nothing.

[msattentionspan]

Shit, that's gotta be weird to be around. Can't give him a hard time without being immediately outnumbered.