riverviewlogs | [open] February Catch-All

[Lyle chuckled at the reaction to the porg as well as Kara's reaction]

Yeah, he's cute.

Things have been going well. Got my brother's robot from home... now I have my brother.

Oh... [Keith looked up from Kara at that.] He's here? I thought... [Their talk at the gym had given Keith the impression that Lyle was on his own... no family.]

Chalk it up the insanity of Quarantine. He's dead in my time, but he arrived from before he died. So... he's alive. And I'm older than him.

[Kara looked up at Keith then figuring they are going to be talking for a bit, sat down right where he was and snuggled up like he was going to take a nap]

[Spotting the movement of the little birdlike creature, and noting that it looked like it was about to take a nap, Keith stood back up.]

You were the younger brother?

[At least until they started to move, Kara was okay to nap there. It was a lot of working following a human around and a lot of excitement for a little bird]

I was... by some odd minutes. We're identical twins, but you'll know him if you see him.

[Keith nodded.]

Oh? So I won't think he's you?

He now wears an eyepatch because of an injury. I'm sure you won't think he's me.

Oh.

[Keith considered that for a second, debating asking if it was permanent, but he stopped himself.]

And he's younger now... right? Like, in relation to you. Younger than you.

[Well, Lyle hasn't asked Neil to fix it. That's up to him. The doctors here might have at least been able to do something]

Yeah, but several years, but I don't think its really that noticeable.

[At least he hopes it isn't]

Guess I'll find out if I see him.

[Yes, Keith was teasing Lyle about now being older.]

Yeah I guess we will. I can only hope he doesn't look that much younger than me.

[He's quiet for a moment, but on a possibly related note...]

Hey, can I ask a favor of you?

What's that?

[Keith gave Lyle a curious look at the change in tone.]

Everything okay?

Yeah, everything's fine... but can you take these from me?

[He reached into his jacket pocket and pulled out a pack of cigarettes. He held them out to Keith]

I can't throw them away myself. I don't care what you do with them. Just don't smoke them yourself; they are terrible.

[Keith raised an eyebrow at Lyle, then looked down at the box for a moment.]

Well, giving this up would definitely help with your endurance.

[He gave Lyle a small smirk and then reached out to take the box of cigarettes.]

I won't... but you're sure you want to quit? I'm all for it, but I know you have to be ready for that sort of thing.

Yeah, it definitely would do that.

[As Keith reached to take them, Lyle hesitated. It was hard to give them up. He'd been smoking for far too long and his brain was telling him it was a stupid idea. Well, the addiction was telling him it was a stupid idea.

But he had other reasons now. Kara the Porg for one. Tiny thing didn't need to be around him smoking even if he didn't smoke indoors. His brother was there... Osomatsu...

So after that hesitation, he pressed them into Keith's hand]

Yes, take them. I want to get rid of them.

Okay.

[Keith nodded, his hand closing around the box as he took it from Lyle. He slipped it into one of his pockets.]

I wish you luck with it.

Thanks. [Lyle pulled his hand back, now minus one box of cigarettes, and after a moment where he didn't quite seem like he knew what to do, shoved his hands in his pockets. He wanted to do it, but he was still a little thrown off so suddenly getting rid of his cigarettes] I think I'm going to need it.

Well... I've heard gum and hard candy can help. Like lollipops. As weird as that probably sounds as a replacement.

[Keith shrugged.]

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Yeah, I guess those couldn't hurt to try. Somewhere I read was part of the problem is not having something to do with your hands... I mean the nicotine is probably worse, but that's something too.

[Is he rambling? He feels like he's rambling]

[He was rambling, but Keith had gotten used to nervous rambling. He was teammates with Pidge, after all.]

That could be part of it. Or it could be that... [Wait... what he was about to say sounded weird.] Well, like... you know, chewing on something, or whatever... [Yeah.]

Yeah that's probably part of it too...

[Actually aside from the nicotine, that was probably a lot of it]

Wonder if they have those candy cigarettes here or something.

They might.

[Keith shrugged a little.]

It's worth looking into if you think it'll help you quit the real ones.

Hey, its worth a try. The worst is that they don't work is that I have to try something.

Maybe as a more immediate thing while I'm starting.

[Since he shouldn't long term replace smoking with one so similar ot smoking...]

Good luck.

[Keith smiled a bit.]

Do you want to meet up again next week for another lesson?

Yeah. Let's do that. I need to start working out more.

[That and he was going to need distractions now. Otherwise the urge to smoke may take over and he'll start again]

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