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[junosteel]

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[littlenosies]

[Nureyev makes a face at his device. He'd been the one to start the conversation, but he doesn't appreciate that it's drifted toward the apparent inevitability of his own transformation.

He opts to forget about the topic in its entirety.]

You act as if I will be putting down roots in whatever place I decide to occupy.
When have I ever stayed in one place, Juno?
It's like you hardly know me at all.

[junosteel]

i didn't mean
nevermind
i just

[He doesn't know what to say, and when Juno Steel doesn't know what to say, he gets cranky.]

whatever. you clearly don't need my help, so i don't know why you're still here.

[littlenosies]

[Nureyev hardly knows what he's said wrong. With Juno Steel, it's always hard to tell. Nonetheless, Nureyev is unbothered by the detective's apparent fit.

Or so he tells himself.]

Oh, Juno.
You've hardly changed a bit, have you?

[junosteel]

[What Nureyev says...definitely worries him more than it should. As hard as he's tried to improve in the past few months, he immediately fell back on his old thinking patterns once he saw Nureyev show up.

What if it's too late to change?]

i mean, there was the fact that i turned into a monster, but sure i guess.

[Just brush it off, Steel.]