CHUUYA

[applechemist]

i'll put something here later

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[goatsongs]

We have criminals, but they're pretty rare. In my home you could walk around all night and not be bothered.

[He knows this because he used to do that.]

[applechemist]

Yes, mine too. And most criminals I know of aren't wanted for things like murder.

Just... Trespassing. That sort of thing.

[goatsongs]

I went to jail for breaking a street lamp once.

[He was, naturally, drunk at the time.]

[applechemist]

You should be careful. Someone has to fix that, you know?

[ Her. It's her. Her job is to fix things like that. ]

[goatsongs]

I only do that when I'm drunk, it's fine.

[...he's almost always drunk]

[applechemist]

I know that accidents happen, but that's still no excuse...

[ But this is a very soft scolding because people are dying so. She can't really bring herself to be mad. ]

[goatsongs]

It only happened once! And that was decades ago, let me live.

[does that really count when you spent most of those decades not alive chuuya-]

[applechemist]

[ She actually laughs, lightly. ]

Okay. At least you didn't collapse an entire historical site. [ So, you know. Could be worse. ]

[goatsongs]

[It's good people can still laugh right now.]

Exactly! It's just one street lamp, probably wouldn't have gotten any attention if it didn't happen to be in front of some police guy's house. Not like I knew that.

[applechemist]

Oh no...! Did you get in a lot of trouble?

[ Escha: Scolds him, but also kind of takes his side. It's fine. ]

[goatsongs]

Stayed in jail for a week, then they let me go. Could've been worse, but I still hated it...

[applechemist]

That's not that bad.

[goatsongs]

Yeah, it could be worse, I know some political criminals who got some raw deals.

[tortured to death kind of raw deals.]

Still don't like cops.

[applechemist]

[ Cool cool cool. Escha tilts her head. ]

Really? How come? [ It sounds like he was punished for a crime he did, that seems fair! Escha's world doesn't really have corruption so cops are fine! Ha. ]

[goatsongs]

Some cops are fine? But some cops know they've got power over you and will use it to be an asshole, or take bribes. And then there's the secret police who'll just torture a guy to death because he wrote something they didn't like.

[yeah uh about that]

[applechemist]

Really? That's awful... People like that shouldn't be allowed to work for the government. I understand needing to be strict sometimes, but...

[ But abusing power is different. ITT: Escha learns about institutional corruption, I guess??? ]

[goatsongs]

[what a fun day this has been for her]

They're assholes hired by more assholes hired by more assholes who think they've got the right to get rid of people who say bad things about them.

[applechemist]

I'm sorry you have to deal with that...

[goatsongs]

I'm one of the lucky ones, I shouldn't complain.

[Taps his pen on the paper a few times.]

How much did you talk to them?

[applechemist]

Not much... I haven't gotten to know that many people around here, yet.

[goatsongs]

Neither have I. We talked a little bit, but not enough to say I really know anybody.

[Even the other him.]

[applechemist]

I'd like to get to know everyone better.

But if we could all just go home as acquaintances right now, that would be better.

[goatsongs]

Yeah. Don't get me wrong, some of you seem okay [Escha included] but not enough to be worth this shit.

[applechemist]

... It's hard to think of anything that's worth this. It's all so... Senseless.

[goatsongs]

I'd say 'maybe it'll make sense when we know more' but probably it'll seem like as much of a waste as it was before.