six word stories.

[mllememe]

SIX WORD STORIES MEME
TELL A STORY IN SIX WORDS


1. Post your top level with a six word story prompt. Making up your own is fine as well.
2. Other people respond, write a starter, get a thread going somehow.
3. ???
4. Profit!


DON'T LEAVE YOUR TOP LEVEL BLANK!

Original meme from here.

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[apestalmenos]

Sounds a bit melancholy.

[sharpeyes]

Easy to tell?

Azem's away again.

[ it's fine... he'll workaholic it off. ]

[apestalmenos]

You should be used to that, shouldn't you?

[sharpeyes]

I am. I still miss them.

[apestalmenos]

They will return. Possibly with fruit, certainly with stories. In the meantime, don't you have things to do?

[sharpeyes]

Oh, plenty. And I know they will, even if they may need to call on others for help. [ never him, but he knows his limits. ] Yet it is indeed melancholy, to wake up and know that light is no longer in Amaurot. No longer near.

[apestalmenos]

You are taking this much harder than I would expect anyone to. Is there something going on?

[sharpeyes]

Something...? haha no, of course not.

[ ... he usually is like that, and then he throws himself into his work until hades smacks some sense into him in one way or another, when his duties let him pay attention. ]

[apestalmenos]

Are you sure? I don't need to worry about you?

[ Too late. He's worried. ]

[sharpeyes]

Worry? Of course not. I'm the same as usual and I'll have you know I've caused no undue trouble at all. Keeping people's lives interesting a little, perhaps, but some people need it and I can't let them grow complacent in our friend's absence.

[ child, please , he's fine, he never lets his self pity ruin his joy of life for long. ]

[apestalmenos]

Hm. Then I suppose I have no choice but to take your word for it! I just didn't expect such a dramatic take on a rather routine trip, you see.

[ He probably should have. But it was very dramatic. ]

[sharpeyes]

[ it was stylishly dramatic, thank you very much! (Hyth, that's actually why it was worrying...) ]

Routine trips do tend to take interesting turns with them, to be fair.

[apestalmenos]

True, which is why I'm just looking forward to more strange souvenirs. I don't suppose they've ever tried to get you to come along?

[sharpeyes]

Ah, well, there is a reason why when they call someone for help, it is Emet-Selch and not me who is called upon.

[ and why Hades is Emet-Selch and not him. anyway. ]

And I do have plenty to do here. Sometimes, I do go. [ very rarely. ]

[apestalmenos]

Really? What kind of expeditions do you end up assisting with?

[sharpeyes]

... not many, really. The ones that are strictly no contact but where my Sight can be of use, or my knowledge of approved Creations.

My abysmally bad aether manipulation skills mean I am more of a burden than help in anything else.

[ ...all right, perhaps also sometimes people missions. but pracitcally calling himself charming is not his thing. ]

[apestalmenos]

Actually... that's not surprising at all.
Hopefully you'll be able to join them again soon. Then you will have no need to be so dramatic.

[sharpeyes]

Well. Or I can be dramatic as much as I wish, without alarming anyone. I do apologize.

[apestalmenos]

Oh, forgive me. I didn't realize it was a form of entertainment for you. I'm sure if we were much better acquainted, I wouldn't have been so concerned.

[sharpeyes]

... please do not misunderstand. You have naught to apologize for - I was, in fact, broding rather unbecomingly, and your words did help me remember my balance, for which you have my thanks, as well as the apology for worrying you.

And at the same time, better acquaintance is never unwelcome.

[apestalmenos]

At the same time, missing a friend is perfectly valid.
So what will you do now?

[sharpeyes]

Indeed, but not to a concerning degree.

And, well. Work, mostly. Spend time with Emet-Selch, when he has the opportunity.

[ as he is likely to miss Azem also, for all the very demonstrative ways he would claim otherwise. ]

[apestalmenos]

Ah, exactly what I would do. Well, except for spending time with Emet-Selch. He doesn't really spend a lot of leisure time around me.

Now I'm trying to remember if I've ever seen him at leisure.

[sharpeyes]

Hehehe, he does have his moments, but he also does take his work very seriously. But we have known each other for quite a while, the three of us.

[ and go out for nights of revelries, if that one nier gacha event can be believed. ]

I would say that with me you could sneak up on him and catch him at leisure, but his Sight is nearly as good as mine, and the chance to sneak on him is rather low. So I suppose patience is your only recourse if you do wish to see him so.

[apestalmenos]

Oh, I don't doubt that. Sometimes Azem tells me stories.

[ Is he jealous? Maaaybe a little. ]

Are you saying that you like to sneak up on him? Or simply that you could? His skills truly are spectacular, so I can't imagine such a feat is easy.