Back To The Future

[have_your_lives]

[It's been an interesting few days, hasn't it, Mayfield? Sexy nurses, vampires, zombies, werewolves, inexplicable children running around. As it happens, Schuldig was involved with both the first and the last events on that list...though the former has been almost completely forgotten in favor of the latter.

No matter what people may think - what Schuldig may want them to think, deliberately lead them to think - some things can even get to him. And today, he's lying flat on his back on a bench in the park, slowly smoking his way through an entire pack of cigarettes.

He doesn't usually smoke. It's a habit he only indulges in when something is bothering him and he needs something to do to distract his hands and his mouth and his mind. Anyone who might want to approach him about encounters with a certain redhead boy, or even about encounters with a full-grown telepath in a sexy nurse outfit - this is where you'll find him.]

Comments

[wise-king.livejournal.com]

Nothing specific. Is there a problem with that?

[have-your-lives.livejournal.com]

I'm not the sort of person people come to for friendly small talk. [Which is 100% true.]

[wise-king.livejournal.com]

Why is that?

[have-your-lives.livejournal.com]

[This earns Merem a stare. No one has ever seriously asked him such a question before; his attitude usually makes such things abundantly obvious.

Clearly Merem doesn't know him well enough yet.]

Because I don't know anyone who bothers with small talk, that's why. [This is also true.]

[wise-king.livejournal.com]

I like small talk. You know, you lose the ability to speak if you don't use it. Have you seen people like that?

[have-your-lives.livejournal.com]

A long time ago, yes. [It wasn't quite from not talking, but he used to see plenty of catatonic psychics in Rosenkrüs.]

[wise-king.livejournal.com]

How long? Ten years ago? Twenty? A hundred?

[have-your-lives.livejournal.com]

Enough. [The answer is decidedly curt. Schuldig tends to nip any attempts to pry into his past in the bud.]

[wise-king.livejournal.com]

A typical human answer.

[have-your-lives.livejournal.com]

If you normally pry into business that's none of yours, it's no wonder you get this kind of answer a lot.