mwxaurum:
The complexity of the human brain impresses with its capability for mental arithmetic. Intellectuality varies in every being. Her memory is a primacy – amnesia has done its part in wallowing up stories of the past and there’s a chunk of knowledge that had been hacked off along with every single recollection of going to bed after watching barbarism from behind glass walls. This cruelty is her new moral: she is ivory skin with a blackened heart.
There are more than a few seconds worth of silence that ensues after his question that evokes more tension in the air. Notice the way she tilts her head, the way her eyes roll to the side in blatant avoidance. How peculiar for this to come from the girl with a hole on her lip, beguilement sparking from a sharp tongue that knows no limits to offense and umbrage.
Aurum clears her throat, answers with a hastily built esteem in complete refusal to admit her handicap:
“992.”
…She doesn’t seem right.
“Tell me I’m wrong - I dare you! You’re allowed to guess what’s going to happen to you next. And it’s going to have something to do with my fists.”
he didn't know where all this violence was coming from; he was actually just very curious. he was good at creation, not numbers, and besides, he could grasp much more complex concepts when it came down to it; the use of numbers without letters in an equation baffled him completely. then again, he probably shouldn't have expected much from someone in a place like this, so he only blinked and clarified himself in as little words as he could.
"huh?"
yes, that would definitely get his point across. not only was it a short vocalisation of confusion -- well, actually, that was the only reason why he said such a thing. he looked at her fists, then at himself, all glinting metal underneath torn clothes that haejin would berate him for later if the other male ever saw him in such a state. the thought of someone punching his form with her very human physiology almost made him laugh, but all he managed was: "ha. ha." that, he thought, was enough. "is 992 the final answer you are giving wolfram?"