[CENTER][h1][color=#BCB0B4]KEMURIKAGE AKEMI
煙影 明美[/color][/h1][/CENTER]
[hr][right][color=gray][color=BCB0B4]Location[/color] — Outside Ishin Academy
[color=BCB0B4]Interacting[/color] — [@TGM][/color][/right][hr]

[indent]There a long silence that permeated the space between Akemi and her would-be classmate. For a time, she simply stared, as dispassionate as she ever was. It was only when the ash dangling off the tip of her cigarette threatened to fall that she deigned to respond.

[color=BCB0B4]"Because you're talkin' fast."[/color]

It was a silly question, and so she gave it a silly answer. As returned her gaze to the heavens, she tapped the embers into the cloud of smoke beside her, she pondered it for a little longer. That was the tragedy of interacting with others, she decided. You couldn't just vibe and forget that everything outside your field of view, outside of the the big, blank blue sky and the streams of smoke billowing out of your mouth existed. You had to actually [i]consider[/i] things. After mowing it over in her head for a while, she added more to her 'explanation'. As if it even mattered.

[color=BCB0B4]"It's like you're uncomfortable with the silence. Like you feel obligated to fill it. Maybe it's because you're feeling so many things that you wanna get it all out. Or maybe you just wanna distract yourself from the feelings by chattin' me up. Like it'll make you feel better to forget how nervous you are, even for a little bit."[/color] 

There were more words than she had intended to use, so she washed the taste of them out of her mouth with a long, heady draw from her last Warlboro. The familiar, acrid flavor of ash was significantly more welcome. [/indent]