audio;

[extradite]

[ As painfully unnecessary feeds go, please appreciate this one for having 254.6(6)% more muttering, fumbling and awkward pauses than your average sheepish interlude. ]

...sorry. Sorry about everything that's been happening. The losses. The... inconvenience. Sorry about all that.

[ It appears he is growing a spine for the next part - ]

And sorry, but - what's a good job for someone who... can't do anything?

[ ...and that the spine has now entered evolutionary recession. Muffled rambling mode: engaged. ]

Not fix things, not tell jokes, not do your physics homework, not herd cattle, not... be a... witch, not really punch, not carry the groceries without ruining the eggs, not... nothing. Nothing at all.

[ Sigh. ]

What's a good job for someone like that? And where could they get it? Along with about forty-two mops. Thank you.

Comments

[ ᴛᴇxᴛ ]

[extradite]

...cello?

[ ᴛᴇxᴛ ]

[5thchild]

Yes. The theatre in Freyr has them. [ he searched for you. ]

[ ᴛᴇxᴛ ]

[extradite]

Are they working? The piano might need tuning.

[ ᴛᴇxᴛ ]

[5thchild]

The piano and violin are.

[ ᴛᴇxᴛ ]

[extradite]

Because you tuned them, didn't you.

[ ᴛᴇxᴛ ]

[5thchild]

I didn't. Bu they were the only ones I used.

[ ᴛᴇxᴛ ]

[extradite]

It's fine. I'll see about the cello myself.

It probably hasn't been used as much. The cello isn't a favourite. Most students seem to like the piano, or the violin.

[ ᴛᴇxᴛ ]

[5thchild]

Are you going to start playing again, Shinji?

[ ᴛᴇxᴛ ]

[extradite]

I suppose. I don't know. If you don't play seriously, you might as well not play at all.

[ ᴛᴇxᴛ ]

[5thchild]

Can't you play simply for fun?

[ ᴛᴇxᴛ ]

[extradite]

That's not 'playing,' then. It's 'wasting time.'

[ ᴛᴇxᴛ ]

[5thchild]

If it makes you happy, then it's not a waste of time.

[ ᴛᴇxᴛ ]

[extradite]

Does playing make you happy?

Happy, not entertained.

[ ᴛᴇxᴛ ]

[5thchild]

Yes.

[ ᴛᴇxᴛ ]

[extradite]

Kaworu, you're strange.

[ ᴛᴇxᴛ ]

[5thchild]

I have been told.

Is it strange to love music? I think it's the highest achievement of the Lilim culture.

[ ᴛᴇxᴛ ]

[extradite]

You've never heard it performed by an orchestra, but you're saying that sort of thing. That's what's strange.

Say, Kaworu: 'Lilim.' Why... 'Lilim'?

[ ᴛᴇxᴛ ]

[5thchild]

I was allowed contact with music. [ while he never heard it live, Kaworu has hear it in CD's, tapes, videos and such. ]

[ Also, you probably don't want to hear what's to come, Shinji. ] Lilim, the 18th Angel; children of Lilith, the second Angel and the Fruit of Knowledge.

1/2

[extradite]

[ Very right. He doesn't want to hear -read - speak - know a word about it.


However. ]

[ ᴛᴇxᴛ ]

[extradite]

That's not it.

We're 'Tokyo-3' people. 'Earth' people. 'Eva-piloting' people.

Why do you call us 'Lilim,' out of all of these? Was 'Lilith'... important to you?

[ ᴛᴇxᴛ ]

[5thchild]

Lilim includes not just humans. Includes every single being capable of building a civilization and development. Humans are, indeed, the ones most capable of it, but even microorganisms are part of Lilim and I won't exclude them.

And yes. Lilith was very important.



Without Lilith, you wouldn't have been born. Neither would your Evangelion. Neither would Ayanami Rei.

[ ᴛᴇxᴛ ]

[extradite]

Eva and Ayanami... Ayanami. You keep mentioning Ayanami.

Were you... and Ayanami?

[ ᴛᴇxᴛ ]

[5thchild]

[ SHINJI WHAT ARE YOU THINKING SHE IS YOUR MOM. ]

I won't call them "Lilim" if you don't want me to.

[ ᴛᴇxᴛ ]

[extradite]

[ DID MUMMY CHEAT ON DADDY. ]


Kaworu, it's fine if Ayanami and you were...

[ ᴛᴇxᴛ ]

[5thchild]

[ Wait, wait -

he thought Shinji meant something else, but now Kaworu is confused ]

Were what, exactly?