4th Kill ~ [Console | Video]

[irishthor]

I think it's going to rain, tomorrow. And not the comfortable kind of rain. It's still too bloody warm around.

Comments

[denyamenti]

[ Bakura has no idea of the console chatter scheme, but he's bored enough to comment anyway. ]

I suppose dry heat would be too much to ask for.

[irishthor]

Bugger the heat, I say. I can barely think in it. Give me a windy spring morning, or a drizzly autumn evening.

[denyamenti]

Those are all right as well, but the heat is the best.

[irishthor]

Well, it's a matter of preference, t'be sure, but I think we can all agree that heat and rain make poor bedfellows.

[denyamenti]

Aa, true enough.

[irishthor]

I take it you hail from warmer climates?

[denyamenti]

Egypt, originally.

[ Even though he hardly looks it. ]

[irishthor]

Forgive me, but... aren't Egyptians supposed to be more swarthy-looking?

[denyamenti]

[ If looks could kill right now, Shay. ]

I believe there are uncomplimentary terms for people who think others need to look a certain way in order to be "correct".

[irishthor]

[He said something wrong, there. Definitely.]

Ah, forgive me, I didn't mean any disrespect. It's just I... [Don't dig yourself further, Cormac.] My apologies.

[denyamenti]

[ The apology buys back a little goodwill, and Bakura will elaborate a little. ]

I don't look entirely the same as I did back then. But even in the past, I didn't look "normal" by Egyptian standards. That doesn't make me any less its lineage.

[irishthor]

Of course not.

[He bows his head.]

There's a... prejudice where I'm from. I should have paid more care to my words, but they don't reflect what I mean. [A slight smile, if a bit rueful.] Besides, normality is a tad over-rated, if you ask me.

[denyamenti]

There's prejudice everywhere, in every time. It's not unique to you, and it's nothing I haven't heard before.

[ You're off the hook, Shay. Bakura's reaction was as much kneejerk because he's heard it before, not because he's angry at Shay specifically. ]

That's certainly true.

[irishthor]

It's not right to propagate it.

[A shake of the head, there, moving on now.]

You mentioned "back then." That seems to have a story attached to it.

[denyamenti]

[ a wry scoff ]

Oh, there's quite a tale. I'd say most of it's unbelievable, but look where we are. Simply, I'm a few millennia removed from the Egypt I was speaking of.

[irishthor]

...I take it that's a few millennia before bein' displaced here?

[He... actually sounds like he believes that.]

[denyamenti]

Indeed. It was some three thousand years after, the time I was summoned here from.

[irishthor]

...That's got to be some culture shock.

[denyamenti]

[ Bakura laughs at that. ]

Sometimes it is. Other times, it's really amusing how little things change.

[irishthor]

Even across all those years? Some things stay the same?

[denyamenti]

Aa, they do. It's good in one way, disappointing in others.

[irishthor]

I can imagine.

Anything noteworthy?

[denyamenti]

People haven't gotten any less gullible.

[irishthor]

That's the human flaw, though, isn't it?

[denyamenti]

It must be. I suppose I thought that people might get some different ones, with how much things have changed and "advanced".