starter for: @dvluknw. location: outside and away from the party. prompt: “does it ever strike you, in a horrible sort of way, how funny this is?”
“Oh, absolutely,” Maya says without a hint of hesitance, basking in the late October air. “I’ve been thinking it since it was announced,” She continues with a small shrug, as if that might make her morbid proposition a little less harsh. Still, she turns to her friend, head canting. “I mean, murdered on Halloween. That’s like, either a total bummer or an amazing case of irony considering how you look at it, you know?”
It was evident that humor was how Maya deflected from more serious encounters. She was not the kind of person you might have a serious conversation with, even when she was feeling up to it. She’d slip in some half-assed mockery as a way of diverting from her earnest anxieties, even now. “What do you think about all this? Are you scared?”