Better Next Time | Michael and Marius
There’d never been any real reason for Marius to give too much thoughts to the gods aside from those occasions where he’d needed to curse them for something or other. With the Shini around, now, he’d had more reason than ever to question just exactly what sort of game the gods were playing. He’d been actively avoiding the Shini so far, not quite sure what to do or say should he actually run into them and so choosing to just forego that awkwardness altogether. Marius also knew that if he didn’t go and seek out Michael he wouldn’t be able to forgive himself, though-- no one knew how long the Shini would be around, after all. Look at it that way, and there suddenly really wasn’t any room for choice at all.
He found Michael at a park, and, after a brief moment of thinking to himself that maybe this hadn’t been so great an idea after all, Marius waved at him and made his way over. “So--dead man walking. That ain’t really a description I’d thought would ever actually apply to anyone in general, and especially not to you in particular,” he greeted Michael, smiling sheepishly. “Would asking how life’s been treating you be a bit too on the nose in terms of bad jokes, you think?”