Kim Kitsuragi
- conversations
- 402
- Locations
- 16
Dialogue
402- "And the flashlight works a lot better if you hold it in your hand."
- "JUMP."
- A bespectacled man in an orange bomber jacket has folded up his newspaper and is now…
- A man in his late twenties with a thin, unimpressive beard notices you approaching. He…
- The corpse looks at you with bulging white eyes. The face around them does not look…
- A row of ghostly shades facing a crumbling wall, with another seven shades standing ten…
- "Look." She greets you, taking a drag. "It's dark outside, the dogs are barking and I'm…
- "Our tenant, the policeman. I hope the waves don't keep you up at night. What can I help…
- "Oh, hello, officer." He covers his mouth, struggling to suppress a coughing fit.
- "Hard-cop." She nods to you with respect and turns off her recording device.
- "Do you, uh, want to talk about what just happened?"
- "Is there something I can do for you?"
- "I'd appreciate it if you didn't force us into situations where I may have to shoot…
- The trash container stands in the spring snow.
- All around you, rain falls on the great city of Revachol. Rain drips from the eaves and…
- "What do you see?" The lieutenant cleans his glasses, squinting at the shapes in the mud.
- The tracks are as they have ever been. A bit more worn, perhaps. Fortunately, the street…
- The sight of bullet holes stirs something in you, making you forget the lieutenant's…
Notes
461- "A good point. He could have been intoxicated. Or something we cannot yet imagine... I shouldn't have assumed so much just from the clothes."
- "No?" The lieutenant's expression is stern and impenetrable. He points at you: "You will get your shit together."
- "Absolutely."
- "Then the world will turn away from you, and leave you behind."
- "Daba-doop-doop-dead," he says without a hint of melody. Not one muscle in his face moves.
- "No sirree." He shakes his head.
- He nods in agreement with this advanced piece of conceptualization. Having mulled it over the lieutenant says: "That sounds about right, yes."
- "We should go talk to the locals, find something else to do while the wind changes. It's pretty bad right now."
- "He is." He points to the corpse.
- He would follow you into death itself... and you would do the same for him.
- "My colleague has an exploratory sense of humour. Don't hold it against him."
- It's good we discussed your history with her, he thinks. I can play along.
- We should have discussed your history before we came here, he thinks. So many unpleasant surprises with this guy...
- You catch the lieutenant's side-glance, but he doesn't say anything.
- "Go ahead," she remarks sharply, "call people rude things. We've heard worse here. Now are you interested or not?"
- The lieutenant sighs at your flagrant misogyny.
- "... and neither have you. Had you let me in on the script of this play before you performed it, I could have gone along. As it stands, the entire line of qu…
- "You." The lieutenant turns to you. "If you were intending to use an unorthodox questioning technique for this branch of the investigation -- which, by the w…