Post by Callisto Tengoku on Dec 14, 2023 4:39:08 GMT
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[attr="class","iwbtr-ly-1"]was i born to be
[attr="class","iwbtr-ly-2"]more?
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A glass clinked against a table, clacking with the swirling ice inside of it.
[break][break]
"Look, Tensei, buddy, I'm an amateur at best."
[break][break]
Callisto sat along his apartment's window side, seated in an adjacent chair and table, with the orange, afternoon sun drenching him in its warmth. The orangish light left them swimming in its glow, with the light bouncing through the man's swirling drink. Through the glass door, he could see, just peaking over the balcony ledge, the sun was lazily drifting towards the horizon.
[break][break]
"And even if I wasn't–" he'd thumb the rim of his glass, pressing just a bit too hard– "I dunno how to act like some flimsy socialite, let alone put up with a whole party of them. Why can't you get someone like... I dunno, Terumi? Someone like him, or maybe even Kensui, could probably do it."
[break][break]
"Look," came the voice over the phone, rough like gravel and just as coarse, "if it ain't your thing, fine, I get it. But," a pause, as well as a slow drag of a crackling sound, gave way to an airy sigh. "Legitimate art, real, lost pieces, fetch a pretty penny."
[break][break]
"Yeah, and? If it's that big a deal, why have me do it? Last I checked, I run in lower rings, not in some big league scheme."
[break][break]
Another clink of ice against the glass and a buzz against static.
[break][break]
"Simple; the idiot himself doesn't know if it's real or not." A chuckle came across the speaker. "Mister Gorosky, even for all his charm, knows his bullshit the moment he spews it. But, on the rare occasion, he stumbles into the possession of something that keeps him going — something that lets him continue spewing shit. Now, this time around, he doesn't even know if he's selling an authentic piece."
[break][break]
"Potentially authentic, yeah."
[break][break]
"He thinks it's a fake. And frankly, it may very well be so; I won't deny the odds. But, if there was any chance to snatch up a real piece, to take it when the guard is low, I figured you'd like the opportunity to work upwards."
[break][break]
Callisto leaned back in his seat, pressing his shoulder blades against the crest rail and groaning as he did. He paused for a moment of silence, refusing even a groan or a sigh as he stretched, as Tensei sat on his end, puffing smoke.
[break][break]
"If you're gonna have me work up," his voice came, a tinge of a sigh planted in his words, "you'll be paying me my real score for it."
[break][break]
Tensei made a gravelly laugh before the line cut out.
[break][break]
Reaching both of his hands up — releasing his grasp from his cup as he did — Callisto rubbed his hands along either side of the bridge of his nose, cupping them around it with a guttural, groaning sound. He looked up at the ceiling as he did, eyeing the little shadows that danced along the surface in contrast to the rest of the light he was bathed in.
[break][break]
"Mamma?" His Japanese faded from his words, losing their edge as a looser tongue, one more familiar to the Venetian, carried over to the living room couch. "I still have that suit, right?"
[break][break]
From her spot, a harsh, airy laugh came, swirling with the speaker's raven hair, as she matched his words. "I don't keep tabs on your clothes; you forget how to wash them yourself?"
[break][break]
Sat alone with a baby panda in her lap, laid back and dressed lazily, Haru Tengoku kept her eyes focused on the living room screen. The panda, Cal's infamous little stowaway, lightly snored as she absently rubbed circles into its back. On the screen, there seemed to be some sort of drama playing on, with the lone couch viewer watching intently.
[break][break]
Callisto slipped out from his seat, drinking down the last of his glass and setting it near the sink behind the living area.
[break][break]
"I have it, then?"
[break][break]
"I think it's in the back of your closet, next to that rack on the far wall."
[break][break]
"The jacket one?"
[break][break]
"The jacket one."
[break][break]
[break][break]
Laoro stepped along the carefully curated stone course, made of jagged pieces forced to fit into a flat path up towards the estate ahead, with which all the lights in the decadence turned out. Turning his arm and tugging at his sleeve, his watch showed the time: ten past eight. Half of the draw came in the initial darkness set between now and ten o'clock, a game, a gimmick to the night's extended novelty.
[break][break]
The criminal adjusted the Colombina mask rested across his face, sneaking it through his long, slicked-back hair, leaving only a few bangs to playfully hang down his forehead. The glitter in it, that same color as the tide and the beach, flickered to life as, ahead of the man and the many walking down the path, light burned to life. Lanterns set along the path, encased in any number of colors — vibrant greens, dim purples, blazing reds — set alight as they stepped along, and from the house, through the glass fronts, it burned the brightest. A party set for only two hours — in the hours when electricity should be cut — burning only with the light made from fire.
[break][break]
"Name or reference?"
[break][break]
As Laoro stepped up to the door — the place where the least amount of light fell on them — a larger man stood beside the entrance, his hands tucked behind his back and his face stowed beneath a Bauta Barocco.
[break][break]
"Tensei. Oshima Tensei."
[break][break]
With a solemn nod, the man opened the door, ushering Laoro alone in through. Anonymity was the game — whether "Oshima Tensei" was him or his reference, it didn't matter; the name was known, and if the name was known, the game could be played. And so, as he stepped through the main manor, he quickly found himself entering the ballroom, the place to be remiss before the game even began. Men and women chatted, swinging through sleuths as deft, quiet strings played through the halls. All of them wore masks of some form, and some of those were better at keeping the secrets — but in the end, when anyone made eyes with anyone else, they could see the same ideas glowing in the back of their eyes.
[break][break]
Laoro would have to stomach it.
[break][break][break][break][break]
A glass clinked against a table, clacking with the swirling ice inside of it.
[break][break]
"Look, Tensei, buddy, I'm an amateur at best."
[break][break]
Callisto sat along his apartment's window side, seated in an adjacent chair and table, with the orange, afternoon sun drenching him in its warmth. The orangish light left them swimming in its glow, with the light bouncing through the man's swirling drink. Through the glass door, he could see, just peaking over the balcony ledge, the sun was lazily drifting towards the horizon.
[break][break]
"And even if I wasn't–" he'd thumb the rim of his glass, pressing just a bit too hard– "I dunno how to act like some flimsy socialite, let alone put up with a whole party of them. Why can't you get someone like... I dunno, Terumi? Someone like him, or maybe even Kensui, could probably do it."
[break][break]
"Look," came the voice over the phone, rough like gravel and just as coarse, "if it ain't your thing, fine, I get it. But," a pause, as well as a slow drag of a crackling sound, gave way to an airy sigh. "Legitimate art, real, lost pieces, fetch a pretty penny."
[break][break]
"Yeah, and? If it's that big a deal, why have me do it? Last I checked, I run in lower rings, not in some big league scheme."
[break][break]
Another clink of ice against the glass and a buzz against static.
[break][break]
"Simple; the idiot himself doesn't know if it's real or not." A chuckle came across the speaker. "Mister Gorosky, even for all his charm, knows his bullshit the moment he spews it. But, on the rare occasion, he stumbles into the possession of something that keeps him going — something that lets him continue spewing shit. Now, this time around, he doesn't even know if he's selling an authentic piece."
[break][break]
"Potentially authentic, yeah."
[break][break]
"He thinks it's a fake. And frankly, it may very well be so; I won't deny the odds. But, if there was any chance to snatch up a real piece, to take it when the guard is low, I figured you'd like the opportunity to work upwards."
[break][break]
Callisto leaned back in his seat, pressing his shoulder blades against the crest rail and groaning as he did. He paused for a moment of silence, refusing even a groan or a sigh as he stretched, as Tensei sat on his end, puffing smoke.
[break][break]
"If you're gonna have me work up," his voice came, a tinge of a sigh planted in his words, "you'll be paying me my real score for it."
[break][break]
Tensei made a gravelly laugh before the line cut out.
[break][break]
Reaching both of his hands up — releasing his grasp from his cup as he did — Callisto rubbed his hands along either side of the bridge of his nose, cupping them around it with a guttural, groaning sound. He looked up at the ceiling as he did, eyeing the little shadows that danced along the surface in contrast to the rest of the light he was bathed in.
[break][break]
"Mamma?" His Japanese faded from his words, losing their edge as a looser tongue, one more familiar to the Venetian, carried over to the living room couch. "I still have that suit, right?"
[break][break]
From her spot, a harsh, airy laugh came, swirling with the speaker's raven hair, as she matched his words. "I don't keep tabs on your clothes; you forget how to wash them yourself?"
[break][break]
Sat alone with a baby panda in her lap, laid back and dressed lazily, Haru Tengoku kept her eyes focused on the living room screen. The panda, Cal's infamous little stowaway, lightly snored as she absently rubbed circles into its back. On the screen, there seemed to be some sort of drama playing on, with the lone couch viewer watching intently.
[break][break]
Callisto slipped out from his seat, drinking down the last of his glass and setting it near the sink behind the living area.
[break][break]
"I have it, then?"
[break][break]
"I think it's in the back of your closet, next to that rack on the far wall."
[break][break]
"The jacket one?"
[break][break]
"The jacket one."
[break][break]
[break][break]
Laoro stepped along the carefully curated stone course, made of jagged pieces forced to fit into a flat path up towards the estate ahead, with which all the lights in the decadence turned out. Turning his arm and tugging at his sleeve, his watch showed the time: ten past eight. Half of the draw came in the initial darkness set between now and ten o'clock, a game, a gimmick to the night's extended novelty.
[break][break]
The criminal adjusted the Colombina mask rested across his face, sneaking it through his long, slicked-back hair, leaving only a few bangs to playfully hang down his forehead. The glitter in it, that same color as the tide and the beach, flickered to life as, ahead of the man and the many walking down the path, light burned to life. Lanterns set along the path, encased in any number of colors — vibrant greens, dim purples, blazing reds — set alight as they stepped along, and from the house, through the glass fronts, it burned the brightest. A party set for only two hours — in the hours when electricity should be cut — burning only with the light made from fire.
[break][break]
"Name or reference?"
[break][break]
As Laoro stepped up to the door — the place where the least amount of light fell on them — a larger man stood beside the entrance, his hands tucked behind his back and his face stowed beneath a Bauta Barocco.
[break][break]
"Tensei. Oshima Tensei."
[break][break]
With a solemn nod, the man opened the door, ushering Laoro alone in through. Anonymity was the game — whether "Oshima Tensei" was him or his reference, it didn't matter; the name was known, and if the name was known, the game could be played. And so, as he stepped through the main manor, he quickly found himself entering the ballroom, the place to be remiss before the game even began. Men and women chatted, swinging through sleuths as deft, quiet strings played through the halls. All of them wore masks of some form, and some of those were better at keeping the secrets — but in the end, when anyone made eyes with anyone else, they could see the same ideas glowing in the back of their eyes.
[break][break]
Laoro would have to stomach it.
[break][break][break][break][break]
Negative
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