ACE ATTORNEY AU

[enigmaster]

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[agoodname]

[there's a period of silence, for a moment...before she sets down the newspaper and pushes to her feet, moving across the room and sitting at the table across from him. For a moment, she stares at him, contemplative--before she speaks again. This time, Edward can understand her.]

"You talk?"

[enigmaster]

[It takes a bit for Edward to react. Kind of like he's on a delay. But then he just looks up, slowly.] ...Um... What? [He might be a little bit out of it, but that caught him off guard enough.]

[agoodname]

"You look bad." [dryly. Apparently, yes, she can speak English. A bit.]

[enigmaster]

[This is... surprising. But he can go with it.] Oh. ...I think I always kind of do. [Doesn't he? That's the image he has in his head, anyway.]

[agoodname]

[she just...arches an eyebrow] "Worse."

[enigmaster]

Ah. [Great.] I'm fine. [He's making a lot of effort to act as if he is, anyway.] Just a little... out of it. ...That'll go away later.

[agoodname]

"You have bad time." [It's not a question.] "You tell young man about this."

[enigmaster]

Huh? [....AH....] I-I'll just bother him if I do that...

[agoodname]

[yep she sure is giving him a look like he's an idiot.] "That is stupid."

[enigmaster]

[So direct...] Is it, really...

[agoodname]

"Yes."

[enigmaster]

Oh.

[......]

...Sorry?

[WHAT DOES HE SAY TO THIS]

[agoodname]

[yeah she just waves that off.] "So. You tell young man."

[enigmaster]

Um. [................he gets the feeling.... she'll disapprove if he says no] ...O-Okay?

[agoodname]

"Good." [and she nods once, before pushing to her feet.] "My name is Olga."

[enigmaster]

Oh, um... Edward. [He assumes she knows since she's always here and surely she's heard, but it just feels like he should say it?] Nice... to meet you...

[is it

this is weird

he's so confused, but politeness instinct kicked in]

[agoodname]

[And she nods one more time] "Good." [and that task finished, she's going to go back to the couch and get back to reading her newspaper]

[enigmaster]

[....ALRIGHT, THAT HAPPENED

and Edward is just uh

gonna go back to waiting for Oswald to get back, then.

...He takes out his phone not to really do anything but to at least give the illusion that he's not a total zombie right now.]

[agoodname]

[THAT SURE DID HAPPEN. And he'll remain mostly undisturbed until Oswald gets back about an hour later]

I'm back. They took the body to precinct to have it identified by forensics, but I'm pretty sure I already know who it is. [he's talking, even as he hangs things up]

[enigmaster]

[There's... a bit of a delay, again, between someone speaking and Edward really hearing it. So it takes a few moments before Edward actually looks up.] Oh... Welcome back.

[agoodname]

[coming around into the living room now, leaning pretty hard on his cane] Thank you. [he's going to just...sit down very gingerly on the sofa. His hip is still pretty badly bruised because o w still, and he rubs at it, setting his cane aside]

....are they normally like that?

[enigmaster]

[And Edward is going to come over and join Oswald there. Though he pauses for a second before sitting down, at that question.] ...Sometimes. [He takes a seat.] It depends on how... together someone is, after dying. Sometimes what's left behind is very angry.

[agoodname]

...how common is that? That anger?

[enigmaster]

I don't know, I guess... it happens sometimes? [He's never really counted.] For people who were murdered or were betrayed or something like that... I think... it's usually worse for very traumatic deaths. [And this? Pretty freaking traumatic.] Slow ones, especially. That's a lot of time for negative emotions to get worse.

[agoodname]

["sometimes" is not particularly comforting, nor is what Edward describes]

....and how often do you get hurt when you're doing these sorts of things?