Kim Kitsuragi
- conversations
- 402
- Locations
- 16
Dialogue
402- Two rusty metal plates that slide apart form a crude door. It's been here under the…
- A rusting control panel with loose wires dangling out from the hole where an indicator…
- The Headless FALN Rider -- he could appear at any minute!
- There is nothing.
- You holding it together there, Meltdown Cop?
- Do you feel that?
- The dome-shaped plastic buoy still bobs up and down in the water amidst the trembling…
- "What have I used it for..." He looks you dead in the eye: "I've used it for killing…
- The library card is folded into two and still slightly wet to the touch. The front side…
- "One moment..." You can hear her shuffling through some papers.
- There's some tare, an empty cigarette package, and a crumpled kebab wrapper in the trash…
- "Are you serious?" The lieutenant's face changes immediately, taking on a more sombre…
- "So, the death notification..." the lieutenant says as soon as you've left the apartment.
- "We just need to get him back to the mainland." A crooked little smile. "We actually did…
- "Three weeks ago, when the rich hag came in on her galley. Her honour guard came in tow."
- What strikes you about this gaunt man is not the stomach pain, or the cough, or the…
- "What?!" The old man's eyes fill with sudden, unexpected terror at the words: "But you…
- "He did everything he could," the lieutenant interrupts him. "We did everything we could…
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…