[Week 4, Thursday: Ichigo, Ashikawa, Lenka]

[fallbymyhands]

[Thursday night comes, settling upon them like a blanket, and Mitsuru is out and about on her now-weekly Thursday night patrolling. but this time, she doesn't go alone! what's up Thursday patrol fam, how are you doing tonight]

[at any rate, Mitsuru herself is idly circling the outer areas of camp, looking both alert and yet pensive all in one]

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[soylentprotag]

Oh. Right.

[He actually hadn't realized either, how little he talks about what he does back home or anything about back home, really -- it's because everything in this world is so new and startling and all-consuming that it takes up all his attention and focus. It's much easier to talk about what is here than what isn't.

And he's never been very good at talking about himself. But he doesn't mind, if it comes up.]

We fight Aragami. Me and my Unit, under Fenrir. [a pause] That's a little like the military. There isn't that much left, of the real military.

[He tilts his head, trying to think of an easy way to sum it up.]

Aragami are the monsters that ended the world. So... people don't usually fight each other anymore.

[That might be the bigger difference between back home and what he knows of the old world, the one that many here probably know much better than he does. And here, this place... for all the ways in which it's off and wrong it's still something like the old world too, from the ground up.]