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he holds out a hand to shake 、the one presently un-burned and also not holding his ungodly concoction. “ mike hernandez 、pleasure to make y’er reacquaintance. sorry it took me so long to get you that drink. ”
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he’d seen it coming 、but it sends a jolt through his body regardless. the last time they’d spoken 、he’d been a hundred feet in the air and wearing enough gear his own 𝓂other wouldn’t have recognized him. still 、he plays up his wince — pressing a hand to his chest and ..
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The inside of Leon’s mind has gone laden with syrup. Everything reaches him late.
The low wash of conversation, the dull clink of glassware, a program running headlines——it all seems to arrive through several
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.. y’er memory unless i showed up in a combat chopper with my name bedazzled on the side 、been a real long time since spain. don’t blame you for forgettin’. ” it had been the worst day of his life 、but for the agent beside him 、it’d just been another 𝓉uesday.
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… yeesh 、they uh 、didn’t give you a rundown when they broke the news i was alive.ᐣ guess the lack of “ get well soon ” cards in the hospital makes a little more sense now. i dunno 、it’s a long story and it’s been twenty damn years — how much time you got.ᐣ
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@REQU1EMAETERNAM / it’s only 9:28 here but i can already tell this is gonna consume the rest of my night, rip to our sleep schedules ( they were already dead )
@REQU1EMAETERNAM / LMAOOOO okay so what i’m realizing is i just need to pretend hard enough that my math makes sense, and nobody else wil notice. but also no, bed is for the weak, leon kennedy is for the strong /j
@REQU1EMAETERNAM / its fiiiine, i was only off by like. . . fifteen years. . . give or take. . . that’s basically nothing /j
seven, twenty two, what’s the difference really
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in the flesh.ᐟ or whatever’s left of it 、anyways. unless i’ve managed to hallucinate the last seven years 、and i’m still lyin’ on that beach — no 、you ain’t crazy. how’ve you been 、kennedy.ᐣ
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“ been a while 、buddy. ” he says 、quieter. searching his expression for any hint of recognition 、a spark of 𝓈omething. his hopes aren’t high 、not in the way they used to be. too much time has passed 、memories allowed to degrade.
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the weather has taken a turn for the frosty 、winter nipping at the brittle autumn leaves and bringing with it an icy chill — the herald of a familiar series of aches and pains that have begun to crop up in his body over the past decade. a familiar song and dance 、an ..
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Beer has always promised a different kind of drunk. Liquor is more absolute about its intentions. A spike of heat, the bite that follows, the immediate little drop in the stomach before everything starts loosening around the seams.
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“ i’ll be damned 、” he drawls 、propping his chin against palm — course hair of his goatee brushing against calloused skin. “ leon kennedy 、in the flesh.ᐟ and here i was thinkin’ i’d seen the last of you. ” he laughs 、lips curling back to reveal a gap-toothed smile.
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