The Park, Friday Morning

[rebelseekspizza]

Dante found himself coming here a lot.

He didn't want to leave Kathy behind this soon after everything, so he and Anders couldn't go home to Limbo City - even as the oppressive air on the island started to settle on top of him again. There were the dreams, full of feathers and red hair, and his own memories of the weekend playing havoc with him.

Even reconciling with Ezra had its own stresses.

Playing music helped.

He made his way down to the park for the third time in a row, acoustic guitar in hand. Sat down in the grass, not far from the ducks, and put the guitar over his knee. Most of the music he'd normally play on electric wouldn't work on acoustic, so he played different stuff: covers of 00s rock music, Foo Fighters, A Perfect Circle, whatever.

He could get lost in it for a while. It was the only thing in his life right now that let him.

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[that_oldsaying]

"You've almost got it already," she said, impressed.

[rebelseekspizza]

"I'm good with music," Dante said, not without a hint of pride. "Got a good ear."

He lowered his hand. "Thanks for sharing that with me, by the way," he said, "It's always good to hear some new shit."

[that_oldsaying]

She shrugged a little, but looked pleased nonetheless.

"I don't mind," Alluka said, "I just don't think to share things like this with other people."

[rebelseekspizza]

"Why not?" Dante asked, lowering his guitar.

[that_oldsaying]

"I know people will listen to me now," she said, smiling as she toyed with one of her bunny's ears. "But for a long time no one did. So... so maybe that was why?"

[rebelseekspizza]

"That last part still kinda sucks," Dante said. "I mean, that no one did. So maybe you should let me listen to a few more, huh?"

[that_oldsaying]

It... honestly, it did suck and yet it was something that she'd was so used to that even looking back on it, Alluka was hard-pressed to say why it had sucked.

That was just how it had been.

Alluka glanced at her phone. "I can do that," she said, glad for how matter-of-fact Dante was about things. "Let's see, um... okay, we can try this one."

She suited words to action, hitting play on another song she could sing along with.

[rebelseekspizza]

"You know a lot of this Japanese pop-rock shit, don't you?" Dante said, tilting his head. "'s cool, I only know this from like, the metal bands."

[that_oldsaying]

"I don't know that I know a lot of it," Alluka said, shrugging a little. "Just that, when you start looking it up on Youtube, you kind of tend to ifnd more as you go?"