[ he sets down a path, obedient to what remained of the footsteps, meanwhile alaska grips him by the ankles and refuses to let off. kaji hadn't seen snow in fifteen years. second impact had shifted earth's axial tilt and left japan with the parting gift of cicadas and the eternal overhead sun. ]
That's a long time. It explains that troubled mind of yours. [ kaji's idea of 'self-deprecating humor' is both smarting and unequivocal in description. rust's brain was the north pole to his south pole, both uninhabitable, gelid and sterile. ] I guess you're a gumshoe through and through.
[ he could smell one a mile away. all in all this man looked like the kind of investigator whose name rarely found its way into print. an investigator, any observer would conclude, who earned his promotions through an absence of screw-ups, rather than any particularly noteworthy achievements.
the only ones worth listening to. kaji feet falter. ]
What am I doing? You take the lead, Mr. Holmes. [ the innuendo that follows evinced a practiced insincerity: ] I'm better on the rear.
no subject
[ he sets down a path, obedient to what remained of the footsteps, meanwhile alaska grips him by the ankles and refuses to let off. kaji hadn't seen snow in fifteen years. second impact had shifted earth's axial tilt and left japan with the parting gift of cicadas and the eternal overhead sun. ]
That's a long time. It explains that troubled mind of yours. [ kaji's idea of 'self-deprecating humor' is both smarting and unequivocal in description. rust's brain was the north pole to his south pole, both uninhabitable, gelid and sterile. ] I guess you're a gumshoe through and through.
[ he could smell one a mile away. all in all this man looked like the kind of investigator whose name rarely found its way into print. an investigator, any observer would conclude, who earned his promotions through an absence of screw-ups, rather than any particularly noteworthy achievements.
the only ones worth listening to. kaji feet falter. ]
What am I doing? You take the lead, Mr. Holmes. [ the innuendo that follows evinced a practiced insincerity: ] I'm better on the rear.