Tao | please indulge me

[inlets]

[Pick your poison:

• A reputable high school, populated by students in white uniform. Are you perhaps a transfer student? A teacher? A new addition to the security guards?
  
• You're on a computer or some database or another when the screen behaves strangely. You are now being hacked.
  
• An electronics store. Tao is picking up a copious amount of parts, almost at what looks like random, and not bothering to be quiet about it.
  
• Your choice.

Mmhahahaha.]

Comments

[uncalled]

So you have an earpiece connected to your wrist? isn't that a little unnecessary?

[seriously this is the most sensible sakon will ever be and he's mostly just doing it to be contrary]

[inlets]

[They're destined to just misunderstand each other forever.]

Ah, no, the part about raising your hand to your ear, because you'd be wearing the earpiece there . . . But you're right. A wrist phone doesn't sound all that practical.

[uncalled]

So maybe not one of those-

Oh, I got it! A hoverboard!

[in case you needed ideas, friend]

[inlets]

[It's a nice suggestion, but not what Tao is looking for. He waves good-naturedly as he continues rummaging.]

I think that's a little too exciting for them.

[uncalled]

[Just tilting his head.]

Wow, what kind of boring people do you hang out with? Who doesn't want a hoverboard?

[inlets]

[He hangs out with people who wash dishes every day.]

Well, we spend most of our days working. Can you imagine bringing a hoverboard when you report in the morning? Most places would call it "unprofessional."

[Tao is not professional to begin with.]

[uncalled]

Hmmm? Where do you work?

Doesn't sound like a place that really reeks of creativity if you ask me.

Hoverboards could be the way of the future and we'd never know!

[inlets]

Where I work, there's a lot of kids. At this rate, I think we'll be seeing them with hoverboards before we even get to touch that sort of technology. It might be a good thing. Maybe the ones who are always late will even start showing up on time?

[uncalled]

Or they'll be busy practicing cool tricks out in the skate park instead of showing up at all!

[aka what sakon would probably do]

1/2

[inlets]

[ . . .

That is indeed a terrible possibility.]

[inlets]

Is that what you would do?

[uncalled]

Yeah, probably.

[HONESTY]

At least until the trend wore off. Or if none of my friends showed up. What's the point in having a cool hoverboard if no one's there to share it with? Or show it off with?

[inlets]

[Wow, that honesty.]

That's true. That would be lonely, wouldn't it? Then it'd be no fun at all . . .

[uncalled]

[his loyalties are few in number and his studies are not included]

Not really!

But if wherever you worked at invented the hoverboards, kids would probably come flocking!

[inlets]

[If only.

"Get straight As, receive a free hoverboard!"

Maybe he can suggest it to the principal, once he manages to make a few. Nothing is impossible, for he is Tao!]

It would give them an incentive, for sure. We've got so many kids coming in, there's always the handful that trickle in later than expected . . . and then there are the ones that sleep through everything . . . That's right, I'll see what I can pitch to the boss.

[uncalled]

[That's the sort of thing that Sakon likes to hear! He's brightened up quite a bit now that there might be some fruition to his suggestion-]

See? That's the sort of the thing I mean! Awesome!

If you can sleep through a hoverboard, then I dunno, man - those are some serious issues you've got to work out.

[inlets]

[Bingo.]

Haha, some people can sleep through anything. Isn't that amazing?

[uncalled]

I dunno, it sounds like a bit of a waste. An amazing waste, maybe?

[that's his idea of compromise]

[inlets]

That they're sleeping through everything they could be experiencing?

[uncalled]

That they can't think of anything better to do with their time than sleep!

[inlets]

[Shinwoo, if only you were here to hear this . . .

Tao's words are mirthful.]

I don't think they feel the same way.

[Then, hauling his loot toward the counter – ]

Right! All set. Finally found that last one.

[uncalled]

[Sakon tilts his head in response. He'd respond to the sleep thing but alas, he's still really easily distracted-]

Soooo hoverboard?

[he's mostly joking]

[inlets]

– and the wrist phone.

[Yup.]

[uncalled]

So one really cool thing and one not really useful thing!

Yeah, sounds like they balance each other out.

[inlets]

Yeah. I'll give my coworkers both of them, so they don't feel cheated out of the deal.