Re: [Study: Atticus/Aiden]
People like conformity. [He gave it a shrug, minimum movement patent pending.] I’ll just wave a pitchfork? [Even in plaid and denim, he’d make quite the odd picture to people who could see. Tattoos, awkwardness and all.] I think we established that I’m not “hip”. [And as if to emphasize he actually motioned the quotation marks into the study’s air before wetting his lips with some more liquid from his glass.] I die a lot, it never sticks. [Battlefields weren’t exactly the safest place, even with the invisibility factoring in.] The more you know. Thought you knew, with your stragglers sticking around, somehow many think that there are reasons good enough to hang around, no matter the consequence. [Atticus collection of bizarre housemates not-so-living proof. Hanging on until there was nothing left of them.] Pass on the plaid, I might be almost dead but not that far gone. [He emptied the glass of its last bit of content and set it down with a barely audible thump, reached into his pocket and slid a piece of paper over the wooden surface of the desk, a mobile phone number scribbled in barely legible numbers on the slightly crumpled paper.] They replaced my company phone, it’s a real nuisance.