Audience: White

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Comments

[enfangs]

[SCREAMS AND JUMPS IN SHOCK]

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[they just laugh. it's a quiet huff of a sound, as they take a few steps back.]

[enfangs]

Why does everyone gotta sneak up on other people around here...

[probe]

Pay more attention, or someone is going to run a knife through you.

[enfangs]

What happened to texting me to let me know you saw my message!?

[probe]

I don't like texting.

[enfangs]

Why not?

[probe]

It's difficult.

[enfangs]

Oh, are you also from like... pre-modern times?

[probe]

I don't know what you'd consider modern times. Modern time is modern time, where I'm from.

[enfangs]

Hm... well, what's it like? I've experienced two different centuries, so I'm kind of an expert, maybe.

[probe]

There aren't... lights, like there are here. Typically lanterns. Fireplaces. The doors have doorknobs. We don't have... phones. Or televisions.

[they say this like the words are foreign.]

[enfangs]

Ohhhhh. Yeah, you're from way back, compared to my time. [a beat.] So, is it that you don't know how to text or that you got no interest? It's not so bad to keep up with tech, y'know!

[probe]

I know how to do it. Lust showed me.

Takes too long when I can just ignore it or show up.

[enfangs]

People are totally going to think you're a boomer or something, but sure, sure.

[probe]

A - a what.

[enfangs]

Like, an old person who resists the changes of future generations.

["white you're older than the boomer generation" minor detail]

[probe]

[oh.]

I'm not old. [they sound vaguely offended.]

[enfangs]

[he shoves his hands into his pockets, leaning forward to peer at pride.]

Then, how old are you?

[probe]

[they lean back.]

... I don't know. Not for sure.

[enfangs]

[?]

You got amnesia or something?

[probe]

No, I just don't know how old I am. Haven't kept track.

[enfangs]

Oh. Yeah, I can get that. [he reaches to pat pride's shoulder.] I don't know exactly how old I am either, so we're in the same boat.

[probe]

[they just absolutely freeze when he pats them on the shoulder.

and then move back a full step.]

[enfangs]

[...]

Don't like physical contact, I'm guessing?