[a smaller idiot shows up (late, again, maybe it's something in his blood), although this one is wearing a brown coat, oversized and incredibly grubby]
[he had been -- not excited, nothing so kiddish as that, surely -- interested! interested, to see what Sakamoto had for him, on a day that coincidentally happened to be his fourteenth birthday, even if it wasn't really a birthday, even if it wasn't really a year worth celebrating]
[but now, his face doesn't speak of that enthusiasm; when Badou plunks down beside Sakamoto, his face looks brittle, his eye too dry, and his mouth too thin]
[and he smells, overfuckingwhelmingly, of cigarettes]
Re: action mofo
[he had been -- not excited, nothing so kiddish as that, surely -- interested! interested, to see what Sakamoto had for him, on a day that coincidentally happened to be his fourteenth birthday, even if it wasn't really a birthday, even if it wasn't really a year worth celebrating]
[but now, his face doesn't speak of that enthusiasm; when Badou plunks down beside Sakamoto, his face looks brittle, his eye too dry, and his mouth too thin]
[and he smells, overfuckingwhelmingly, of cigarettes]