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[callmeryuzaki]

[Here's a familiar face, to those who have been Numbered for awhile and perhaps even those who haven't.]

Why hello. I've missed your lovely faces.

A lot of you know me already, but I'm Lazarus Lawliet. The real one. That's me.

I'm looking to compile a useful database of relevant information on all of us, something that we can share freely and without outmoded hangups or hesitation. Let's be progressive about it.

If you send me your name, a photograph or other still image from the front and the side, your age, your profession, and your credit card information, I'll repay you by writing you a personalized piece of short fiction, starring you, in the wildly popular theme of dinosaur erotica. You pick the dinosaur, and I'll make the magic happen without shame or fear.

Your dark desires are very interesting to me. Especially yours, C.S. You know who you are.

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[brotimaeus]

[He didn't expect Tony to understand it then, but when people felt they should be victimised or hated, they often found ways to make it happen.. even if those ways were in their imagination. Richard wasn't convinced that the people in Shepherd's Haven looked at Tony with half the amount of revulsion that the young man saw, but letting him run away by himself would only leave him to stew in the assumptions he'd already made.

The rest of his family had been missing for a year. He didn't intend on letting Tony slip out of his grasp so easily.]

Alright. I'll come along. We'll see this through.

[At least he was better built for travel than he used to be.]

But there's no point shoutin' at L.

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[numberedshepherd]

[The words cut. Pet? Is that how he feels about being Lazarus' friend? After everything they've done for each other? He takes a deep breath on his cigarette, glad that nicotine steadies his hands. He's doing nothing because it feels like there's nothing left to do, like he's mired in a hideous catch-22 where he's damned no matter what he tries. Tony won't hear reason, he won't hear emotion, and he won't hear personal truth. If he can, it won't be from Lazarus.

No, he doesn't have anything to say, especially not to that. He keeps his eyes focused forward, away from the scene happening behind him that he's witnessing, but no longer truly a part of. If he should be pleading with Tony to stay, he's honestly conflicted about whether or not there's a secret aspect of him that thinks it really would be for the best if Tony left.]

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[oncedevil]

[They probably didn't, in all honesty. But Tony's mind had a way of getting ahead of itself, especially when he started perceiving himself as a burden or pitied. This isn't exactly new for him, in truth it's amazing he's lasted as long as he has without having a similar breakdown.

All it took was once or twice before is imagination blew it up into something huge. Besides, there's more going on here than just that, he just has no way of really properly expressing it.

Richard just receives a glum nod, as much as he'd like to run off on his own and disappear entirely there's a part of Tony that doesn't completely want to lose his family again. It's happened so many times before, and while he absolutely feels that he's being pushed out of Shepard's Haven and can't stay, that doesn't mean he won't let Richard stay with him.]

Hnph.

[Is all he can comment on the don't shout at L. For a time longer he watches him waiting for something, anything that might tell him he's wrong. But Lazarus doesn't speak, doesn't move, doesn't even look at him. To him, that tells him everything he needs to know.

You're no longer welcome here, devil boy.]

I'm leaving now.

[He lets himself fall back off the roof, a soft thump signalling he's landed on his feet below.]

I'll catch up with you somewhere, Richard. Not stickin' around here any longer.