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[He fiddles with the screen after he first appears for a moment. Once he has it set he gives a big thumbs up to the camera with a smile. Excuse the slightly sweaty teenager in his sword practice clothing. He has been training when he gets the chance.]

Yo, I'm Takeshi Yamamoto, are there any places good for sword training?

[He has been exploring but he misses the dojo where he usually trains. He has one more question but first, a sparrow who looks to be made of rain flutters around his head while a pup with three short swords with blades appearing rain made as well pops up to lick his face. He laughs.]

Oh, Jiro and Kojiro say hi too. Does anyone need any help with projects or jobs? [He would like to keep training but also get involved in helping around Anchor any way he can.]

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Yeah, I know what you mean.

[Down time gives her too much time inside her own head, and the inside of Julie's head is a dangerous place to linger too long these days. She grins crookedly and waves a hand out across the agriculture zone.]

You been up here yet? I can show you around. It's bigger than it looks.

[What hides behind smiles; Yamamoto can understand that. The human mind can be a tricky place after all. His included at the moment. He follows her hand, taking in the zone around them, it's different than what he expected, then again he is not in Japan, he would do good to remember that.]

That'd be great, I haven't gotten to exploring up here much yet.

Sure, er. Let's start this way. There's an orchard up here. Don't eat anything without checking with me first... especially the jittery-looking apples.

[Do NOT eat the seizure apples.

Julie shoves her hands into her pockets as she starts off towards the orchard, kicking at a few clods of dirt and tufts of grass growing up through the path.]

How long have you been here?

Jittery looking apples? Are they sick?

[Definitely not going to eat the seizures apples and always check with Julie before consuming anything because WHAT?!

He follows suit, arms propped behind his head with palms linked against his scalp. He'll clear anything with the toe of a sneaker as they go.]

We got here a couple of weeks ago if I am counting right. Everyone else seems to have been here a lot longer. [Time and timelines are still kind of jumbled in his head, but he doesn't think they have been here longer than two weeks at this point.]

Er. I don't think so. They just look like that. I'll show you when we get to them.

[She will show him the seizure apples once they get to them, and also a few other things that he probably shouldn't be eating without checking first. Most of the things are fine, but...

She's seen some things, okay?]

Mm, I've been here for months. People come and go sometimes but there's a few of us who came in on the first import, or whatever.

Sounds interesting..[And kind of dangerous but at least this way he will know what foods are safe and what aren't. And who knows, maybe with two heads working at it they can come up with a way to make non-seizure apples a thing.

He can imagine; he has seen a few strange things himself]

I wonder how they go home if they transporter doesn't work. [Seems worth looking into, some force has to be taking them away right, yet they aren't supposed to have the ability to leave yet.]

Don't know. They just... do. And there's no warning.

[Her voices tenses up when as she says that, something locked deep in the back of her throat that she swallows down. 'And it's not fair'. She clears it away with a cough and waves towards some more trees as they pass.]

Those are safe. I mean, most of the stuff is safe, just don't eat anything that looks weird.

That kind of sucks.

[He really hopes that doesn't happen to him; he wouldn't want to leave Gokudera here alone. He gave his word to be here for all these people and until everyone can go home he would not feel it fair to leave them behind. He can hear the tenseness in her voice; he does not comment but gives a patient smile. It can't be easy being the one left behind.]

That sounds like good life advice no matter what planet you're on.

[It isn't easy, and it hasn't been easy, and it feels like something that maybe you should be able to get used to and yet she never does get used to it. Her life has been a sequence of people leaving her, but it doesn't get better.

Then she smirks and shrugs one shoulder, trying to compartmentalise and move on.]

Mm, yeah. I don't know exactly what the apples do to you if you eat one, but I mean... why would you want to?

[Yamamoto would disagree, he does not think losing people is something you get used to. It's something you learn to live with, embrace the time you do have with them but missing them, hurting when they are gone, wishing they were still with you, that's all okay. That's all normal.

He is not intrusive, but he hopes over time she'll trust him enough to talk, he'd be glad to listen. There's a laugh.]

Best case it makes you shake like the apple, worst case, yeah I don't think I'll try them.

I think Ami knows more about them. Could ask her what they do.

[Knowing the weird shit that goes on in this place, they don't actually do anything at all and they're just some freaky Halloween-version of regular apples that just exist to creep you out.

She shakes her head, and as they walk they slowly make their way around to where a barn has been set up.]

Uh... I think there's someone living in there, but we've not really talked.

I am helping her with Japanese, I'll see what I can find out.

[That would be nice, at least then they'd know there were not apples out to get them the same as some of the other less friendly creatures around here.

He glances over to the barn, looking to see if he can find a sign of anyone.]

In a barn? [He chuckles, not teasing just genuinely amused at the thought of someone living in a barn.]

Yeah, in a barn.

[Shrug. Hell, why not live in a barn? Do what makes you happy or some shit like that. Julie's thought about moving rooms but all her stuff is in the one she's using now and it just feels like way too much hastle.]

I see him walking around here sometimes. There's something--

[Ehhhh.]

Weird about him.

I'll check around, make sure it's safe. Maybe introduce myself.

[He won't mess with the guy, probably introduce himself. Just make sure that he is not a threat to Julie because she may have known him five minutes but to Yamaoto that is enough time to be friends.]

Heh. Somehow, really not surprised about that.

[Hell, he seems like the kind of guy who would introduce himself to just about anyone. Julie used to be like that, too.]

You this chatty with everyone you meet?

Yup! How else do I make friends?

[He is exactly that kind of guy, no matter what the world gives him he keeps trying to make it brighter with his presence.]

Is that weird?

[She stares at him for a second, and then snorts softly.]

Yeah-- Yeah, I guess so. I've made a lot of friends because I've had to, in places like this.

[He grins at her, really it's his default expression, he probably even grins in his sleep.]

It's better that way, I'd be lonely without my friends.

[Besides, she may not realize it but she is now one of those friends in his eyes. it does not take much with this guy.]

[Julie would not be at all surprised if he did in fact grin in his sleep.]

Yeah, I guess. I suppose I avoid it more than I used to. Means it sucks less when people leave.

[And for Julie, the idea of people leaving before she does has always been a certain one.]

[He probably does, someone will have to ask Gokudera about that.]

Doesn't that get lonely?

[it is not a prying question or not meant to be, it is just earnest. ]

Yeah, sometimes.

[She shrugs, though the motion almost seems to falter half way through as her thoughts drift off.]

But there's worse things than being lonely.

[He sees the falter, does not acknowledge instead just offers his quiet form of comfort with the smile and warm eyes.]

Really, I guess I'd rather have known the person and gotten to care for them, at least I'd have memories.

[She puffs out a short laugh.]

Yeah, well... when you lose enough people, the memories just end up like a weight around your neck.

[He gives a shrug, eyes softening, gaze warm when he offers her a more softer toned smile.]

Not if you treat them like a warm blanket. When I found out my old man had died and that if we didn't defeat Byakuran there was no way to change the future and stop it, I realized that even if he was gone I had to do what I could to be a good son and be happy, because that's what he'd want. I think the older me must have felt the same way. So I just wrapped myself in the memories I had with him and kept trying to smile no matter how much it hurt.

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