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[dyingtohealyou]

Alright, I give.

[Akito is sitting in his seat, arms crossed, with a cardboard box to the side on his desk. For those that have seen him before, his eyes seem a little... different.]

Does anyone know anything about contacts? Specifically, colored ones. I got some cheaper ones, but they hurt my eyes and I can barely see. I don't know how else to explain to my parents about my new eye color - wearing colored contacts to make them this color is a little too weird. I doubt they'd buy it.

[He's spent too much time testing their limits to know what will and won't fly. And speaking of flying...]

Also, has anyone noticed all the sick birds around town? I haven't heard anything about the sickness, but this guy was sitting outside my door when I came back today.

[It's here that he picks up the box, tipping it just enough to show a very still bundle of feathers covered in part by a towel. He gently puts a hand on the cloth and reaffirms that it is indeed still alive when it gives a weak flutter in response. Satisfied, Akito will set the box to the side again.]

I'm not really sure what to do with it. It definitely looks diseased, but I've got no idea if it's something humans can catch or not.

[He leans back thoughtfully before saying one last thing.]

Hey-- Nick, right? Sorry, I got kind of busy. Would you still be up for lessons sometime?

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[ursoreckless]

Hey, easy now, I'm not saying that you're wrong, just saying I haven't seen any sick ones yet.

[dyingtohealyou]

Sorry, it's just weird to realize that not everybody's been seeing them. It seemed to me like they were everywhere, but that might just be because I cut through the park to get home.

[ursoreckless]

I tend to drive everywhere so I probably been missing the sick ones.

[dyingtohealyou]

Ah, yeah, that would make it harder to tell. Any of the ones that get stuck in the street probably have to get cleaned up.

[ursoreckless]

Most likely. It doesn't look like they're able to move fast enough to avoid getting hit.

[dyingtohealyou]

Wonder if there's any way to figure out if the city's had more cases of roadkill lately...?

Hah, probably not. [That would be too easy.]

[ursoreckless]

Isn't something like that public record?

[dyingtohealyou]

Is it?

[He certainly has no idea.]

[ursoreckless]

I would think so... If they're keeping a record of such things.

[dyingtohealyou]

Hang on.

[Stuff like this is why smartphones exist.]

...Well, it looks like there might be records available somewhere, but mostly I'm getting news reports on roadkill cuisine.

[ursoreckless]

Which means that the normal people have been noticing it. Huh.

[dyingtohealyou]

Guess so.

Well, in that case, hopefully they'll do something about it.

[ursoreckless]

We'll see. I just hope it won't get traced back to us some how.

[dyingtohealyou]

That's the hope... The last thing we need is for them to realize we're spreading diseases, too. It'll just give them more reasons to get to us.

[ursoreckless]

It's not something we intended to do at all, but knowing them, we'll be the blame anyways.

[dyingtohealyou]

Of course. If it gives them a reason to go after us without raising as much suspicion on their end, that would work out just fine for them, I'm sure.

[ursoreckless]

Yeah. 'Terrorist group is spreading viral new strain of bird flu'. Can't see how that would turn into anything good.

[dyingtohealyou]

We'd all be screwed.

[ursoreckless]

We're screwed as it is, but I think those Thunder people have a hard-on for catching us and will use whatever they can against us. We'll need to be really careful.

[dyingtohealyou]

Do we even know what they plan to do with us? There's getting to be more and more people involved with this network all the time, it seems. And there's even a chance that if they caught someone, that person would just forget all about it in a month or so anyway.

[ursoreckless]

Probably dissect and then kill us. I can't see them wanting to keep us as a weird pet or anything.

[dyingtohealyou]

Fair enough. Kids go missing all the time, too - even if it was one of us students with a family, they'd probably just think we ran away or got kidnapped and were never found again.

[Geeze, this situation really stinks...]

[ursoreckless]

It's not just kids. My parents always talk about how I will disappear after getting into trouble one more time.

[dyingtohealyou]

...What exactly do you do?

[ursoreckless]

Me? Nothing important. I mostly try to stay out of trouble and away from mother and her need to see me married off before I become an old man of twenty-six.