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[river_meimei]

River.

Booth. Back against the wall, one leg tucked under her and one knee pulled to her chest. Watching the room. What she sees in it is, as usual, an open question.

The sullen look of a teenager who's not in a particularly good mood, layered with River's tendency to be distracted by empty air.

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[last_adam]

*Consider his eyebrow raised. Because it is.*

You okay?

[river_meimei]

"Fine."

Grouchy.

[last_adam]

Mhmmm.

*He says. Or, in other words, bullshit.*

[river_meimei]

Flat look.

[last_adam]

*So Adam sits next to her, and mimics her look.*

Or you could talk. Inasmuch as you ever do.

[river_meimei]

"I talk."

[last_adam]

You weren't.

[river_meimei]

River concedes the point.

...In silence.

[last_adam]

*Adam doesn't mind sitting with River. It's more interesting than sitting by himself, which is what he had been doing.*

Well, if you want to.

[river_meimei]

"You are," she points out.

A little less grouchily. A little.

[last_adam]

Talking? Yeah, it's a bad habit of mine. I tend to talk, when I don't have anything to say.


Of course, most people would argue that I shut up when I do have something worth saying.

[river_meimei]

"It's contrary to the logical order." Just an observation. Not really critical.

[last_adam]

I have a tendency to go against the grain.

[river_meimei]

"It's unproductive."

Because River is never contrary. Yes.

[last_adam]

Only sometimes.

And it's almost always more interesting.

[river_meimei]

River's face lightens a little.

In another mood, it would be an impish smile. The kind that says Yep, I know something about that. She's not in another mood, so it's not. But it's a faint shadow of one.

[last_adam]

*Adam notices. Possibly. Most likely. But keeps talking, because, as has been mentioned, he tends to do that.*

Sometimes people need to be argued with. Challenged.

*Not that they like it. Not that Adam likes it. In fact, he's pretty well a hypocrite, there.*

[river_meimei]

Eyebrow.

As some of River's grumpiness stems from a conversation involving that, the sour mood is back.

Flatly, "You're providing a public service."

[last_adam]

*A wry smile.*

Or a public nuisance. But, yeah. I take it you don't approve.

[river_meimei]

"Doesn't matter."

[last_adam]

Says who? You?

[river_meimei]

Sullen!

[last_adam]

Look. You might be a wunderkind and all, but that doesn't mean you get last say in everything. Maybe it matters to somebody.

[river_meimei]

River looks away.

"You're twisting the words." Irritated.

[last_adam]

Then tell me how they're supposed to go.