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originally posted in:The New Dojo
11/21/2016 5:49:31 PM
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"I... Uh... The most I know about that stuff is what Slaneesh and Nurgle do, and I only know that from a friend... And if it was horrible, and you feel bad about that stuff, you don't have to talk about it. I'm not forcing you."
[b]Keri seemed worried, like she'd actually cared about his well-being. While that was true, it was also true she cared for everyone else's well-being as well.[/b]
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[i]Luke then realized just how rude he must've been. Talking about something that his conversation partner didn't even know much about. He really did feel.. bad, ashamed, for assuming someone just.. knew what he was talking about.[/i] "Ah, alright. Sorry, must seem like I'm just rambling at this point. Rambling about something you don't even know about. Forgive me for my rudeness, I just tend to get carried away. But, basically, Bloodwrath was a bad place with many bad things. Not a fan of talking about it, no, so I'll just stop."
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"Why should you be sorry? You had to go through all that stuff. Worst I've had to go through is a bullet to the left leg. I tend to kill people before they kill me. It's not that hard, especially when I can pretty much just cheat." [b]She was still worried, but not as much now. She just hated seeing other people like that. It didn't mess with her, more just made her feel bad.[/b]
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"I'm sorry for rambling," [i]He said in response, eyes slowly looking up at the sky. Luke loved the sky, admired it. The sun, the clouds.. Not as a hippy, no, but more in the way that he found it pretty. Nice to look at. [/i] "Anyhow, I'm Lucas." [i]His eyes came back down, looking into those of Keri - unless she looked away - while he came close enough to shake hands, right hand extended. She should see, right..? She knew of his arms, after all. [/i] "Sorry if this is rude, but, can you see? Your eyes are milky, so I assume you can't, but you did notice my arms before. Or, is it something else entirely.. Echolocation, perhaps? But that takes years to learn, and you don't look old. Though, it is possible you have been blind for a long time."
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"Ah. Yeah, I'm blind. Have been my whole life. All 49 years of it. And I know I look very young for my age, cryo works wonders. Yeah, I do use echolocation. Most people don't put that with me being blind and being able to see."
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"Forty-nine, eh? Wouldn't have guessed, honestly. I'm thirty-six, though with me it's the opposite, in he way that I look older than I am. People have mistaken me for forty to forty-five. Stress works wonders for the human body, really." [i]Luke went silent, letting his right arm fall limply to his side, right back where it was before. [/i] "Anyhow.. What's your name, if I may ask? Don't believe you've told me, though that could be my memory being bad."
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"Name's Keri. Just Keri. I don't like to remember my last name... Reminds me of my parents. They left me on the streets when I was born. I was raised in the streets by a more peaceful gang. They tended to not murder people for cash. Nice guys."
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"I'm glad I had nice parents, honestly. Though, my father did force me to go military school at sixteen. Same year I fought in my first war. Sure, it only lasted for a year after I joined, but nevertheless. Then, when I was twenty-one, I was sent off to my second war. No living on the streets, though. No gangs, either."
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"You've been through two wars? Really? I barely made it off Cedyetica! That's the place you see behind me. The neon lights, the drug deals that kept me alive, good times. Can't remember much bad."
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Edited by Nox: 11/21/2016 8:58:36 PM"Cedyetica? Sounds somewhat Russian. To my, anyway. Must've been an interesting place to live. I never had any situations with drug deals and the like - though I have done them, believe it or not. The drugs. Not the deals. Back in highschool. That's why I was sent off to military school. Because of my drug and alcohol problems."
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"Yeah, I have to take a drug called KAP-8 to survive. If I don't have it for a week, I'm dead. Just recently found a supplier, so I should be good. What have you tried?"
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[i]At this point, Luke got just a tad bit ashamed, eyes averting even though there was no real eye contact anyway. He didn't enjoy talking about his problems, though he was proud he got over his drug addiction. Still addicted to alcohol, though. [/i] "Cocaine, heroine, weed. Smoked it, snorted it, injected it."
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"Ah. Hey man, at least you got over that stuff. All that matters. If I wasn't a Psion, I wouldn't use KAP-8 at all. Besides that, got a bit of an alcohol problem. Whiskey, mostly, sometimes vodka. And a little absinthe if I really wanna get trashed. Strong stuff."
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"Ah," [i]He replied, looking back into Keri's eyes. He didn't know why he did it, he just felt like it was.. respectful. He was raised that way, taught to respect people into they proved unworthy of your respect. [/i] "Well, I'm into anything alcoholic, really."
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[b]Keri saw the movement he made, to look into her eyes. She didn't know why he did it, no one ever really mustered the courage to actually look directly at her eyes, she guessed. It was... Refreshing to see someone do it, to say the least.[/b] "You're looking into my eyes. Heh. Usually people don't do that, think I'm gonna get offended or something. I'll have to commend you for that. Takes a certain type of person to muster the courage."
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"Courage? It has nothing to do with courage, in all honesty. Looking someone in the eyes - blind or not - is something I was taught to do. Shows respect. And, so far, you have done nothing to prove you're not worthy of respect. And, if it would've offended you, Keri, I'd have stopped." [i]Simple as that, truly. Exactly as he was taught. Plus, Keri was older than him - even if it didn't show - and, well, Luke was also taught to respect his elders.. Though, Luke himself, was decently old himself. [/i] "Plus, I have to admit, your eyes are pretty. Strange, yet pretty."
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"Respect? Sorry... It's just that where I come from, you didn't have to be respected. At all. You got respect when you killed your first man. Crappy place, those old streets. I have the entire city in a program, actually. Might do me some good to boot it up again some day. Maybe not." [b]Keri looked back into his eyes as well... Well, as best she could. It was very hard to position her eyes in a place that she could directly look at something, seeing as she'd never actually used them so far.[/b] "And I have been told my eyes were pretty by only one other person. Thank you. It does wonders for my self-esteem. I would say that you look good or something too, but I can't exactly tell exactly what you look like. That would require me to actually go up to you and feel your face."
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"W-Well," [i]Luke muttered softly, somewhat taken aback by Keri's words. He never had a blind person touch his face to see what he looked like, so it certainly would be interesting. Then there was also the fact that he never really had contact with women. There was Mir'ika, but that was nine years ago on the Bloodwrath. Then, recently, there had been Chloanne, but that woman terrified the Russian. [/i] "I mean, it'd certainly be new to me. So, go ahead, I suppose. If you want to, that is. Wouldn't be fair if only one of us got to admire the other, right?" [i]A soft chuckle left Lucas, though that didn't mean he wouldn't let Keri "look" at him in detail. He wouldn't mind, really.[/i]
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[b]Keri was surprised. No one had let her do this since she'd lived in Cedyetica. It was meant more as a joke, but it would be good to get a detailed picture of his face.[/b] "Really? Alright. No one has let me do this for a long while." [b]She walks up closed to him, and puts her hands on his cheeks. She very slowly pulls her hands across them, and up to his eyes, them up to his forehead. She then takes her hands down to his chin, and she feels up to his nose, which she glosses over quickly. She then moves over to his ears, and from there she runs her hands through his hair for a moment. After she is done, she takes a step back.[/b] "Well, I can safely say that you are, in fact, handsome. Congratulations."
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[i]He sat through the entire touching procedure with patience, finding it somewhat interesting, what Keri was doing. Interesting yet certainly weird. Once she was done, he slowly nodded, hands quickly moving to readjust his hair in case it was messed up. [/i] "Handsome?" [i]Luke asked with a second chuckle, a genuine smile drawing itself on his face, showing a set of white teeth - though his left canine was missing completely, leaving a gap. [/i] "Well, good to know you're not the only good looking person here." [i]He was being playful, not necessarily serious. Though, he had to admit, Keri didn't look all that bad herself. She was pretty. [/i]
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[b]Keri's smile grew wider. She hadn't had a compliment like that in a long time, back when she still lived in Cedyetica, from her previous boyfriend, Lance. It had been a long time since she'd actually talked to a person and actually complimented them, too. Didn't happen often.[/b] "Well, thank you. Good to know I've still at least got my looks. Missing a lot of other stuff from what I once had."
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"No need to thank me, Keri. I'm just being honest, really. Though, I should thank you, for making an old man feel better about himself. Don't get compliments often." [i]His words were true enough. First woman to compliment Lucas was nine years before he arrived at the Dojo, and the second time it happened was months ago with Chloanne. Luke was one lonely fellow. Preferred to stay out of sight, though, so he didn't mind. [/i]
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[b]Keri just about laughed. He was old? She was almost 50! She certainly looked younger than him, but she wasn't actually. She 'looked' him in the eyes.[/b] "You're not an old man. If anyone's old, it's me. I'm almost 50."
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[i]Now, Luke didn't laugh, nor did he feel the need to. Instead, he just shrugged while shaking his head, eyes still meeting with those of Keri.[/i] "And how long did you spend in stasis? I don't count those years. To me, you're as old as you look. About thirty, I'd say. I'm the old one here, to be truthful. And, honestly, I don't even mind."
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"I mean, it's not like you have any wrinkles or anything on you. You look around 40, sure, but it's not like your hair is turning grey. When it does, that's when you can start calling yourself old. And you don't mind about what? Just looking older? I would hope not. That's how you breed cynicism. And cynicism sucks."
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[i]Luke winced at Keri's words. She wasn't angry at him, was she? Annoyed? Either way, he didn't enjoy it one bit - not in the sense that he'd get angry or annoyed.. but rather uncomfortable and somewhat saddened. He was a pacifist and a friendly man, not upsetting people being on his list of things to do on a daily basis. [/i] "R-Right.. S-Sorry." [i]And with those soft-spoken words, he averted his eyes. [/i]
