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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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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.

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

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.

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

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.]

Isn't something like that public record?

Is it?

[He certainly has no idea.]

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

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.

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

Guess so.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

We'd all be screwed.

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.

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.

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

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...]

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

...What exactly do you do?

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.

That doesn't sound like too much to be concerned about in the long run.

[Especially given that Akito actively looks for trouble for fun, but well.]

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