ever on and on - o

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i really hope you don't mind me replying! tbh I didn't know we had an open threads thread, I just noticed it today & realized your post hadn't been snatched up yet.

If anyone needed to atone, Josiah Dawson was certain it'd be him. With guilt weighing on him he'd shuffled his way through the grounds to the cathedral, kicking dust the entire way until the cathedral towered above him. Inhaling sharply he drew his gaze up to the topmost spire, imagining for the briefest moment that the religious authorities inside would somehow see right through him and banish him to the tower, like a princess in a castle. He wasn't really dressed to be the princess in the castle in his baggy blue jeans and his Pink Floyd t-shirt, but hey, he wasn't likely to get rescuers who'd fall madly in love with him and defend him against horrible dragons, either, so there was no need to dress up.

Welp, Josiah was here, might as well go in. Another exhale- he was a dramatic teenager, there was no use denying it. That was when his eyes, dropping towards the door, noticed Ai Tsukuyomi. A grin spread across his features, his mood lightening as he strode up to her, squatting to her level once he got close enough.

"Konnichiwa. Boku wa." Josiah mimicked, his voice soft, holding a southern drawl. Three words wasn't hard, and he knew the longest of the three. What he excepted was a mystery, but as long as he got the attention of the pretty light-haired girl, he really didn't care. Might as well ask, though, right? To get her talking.

"Any idea what I- or that one," Unceremoniously the dark-haired male reached out to tap her game system. "Just said?" He had no idea, and his assumption was that she didn't know, either.

it was a big, big world, but we thought we were bigger.

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i'm sorry, i'm sorry, i'm sorry. josiah gripes about the stupidest things. he's so impatient & quick to judge, but with how cute ai is, he'll change his mind!!

This was going to take forever. And he wasn't fully sure he understood- it was boy for...? Clearly Josiah was not the most capable of interacting with a language barrier. Or, let's face it, being sensitive about hardly anything. But Josiah kept that smile on, listening to her stammer through a partial explanation before- weirdly- she pulled out her phone.

Josiah could only hope she wasn't doing something like calling an older brother to beat him up or something. Now his smile was slipping. Did he look intimidating? While she typed, he glanced at his clothes. To him they looked fairly nondescript, definitely not anything that should seem imposing to a stranger. Then, the phone was being thrust in his direction and he was certain it was going to say 'go away'.

... But, it didn't. He read the text on the screen, his brow furrowing. Could he speak slower? He'd only said ten words in English! Every the charmer, though, he did smile and nod in compliance.

"Konnichiwa. Boku wa Josiah." Josiah repeated. Not actually slower at all. But if he understood her right, he was fairly certain he just said 'hello, my name is Josiah', which meant his name was the only new word in that sentence.

"And you are?" That time he was talking slower, dragging out his words. If he was wise, he would have been more clear: 'who are you' for example.

it was a big, big world, but we thought we were bigger.