between episodes [BROTHER] // blitz.

[[ooc; will code later]]

A girl's voice could be heard nearby, startling me due to its intense clarity. Normally, the voices would appear distant and empty as I heard them and I would barely comprehend the meaning behind the sounds made. Today, as it had been thus far, was intensely different. She had asked a question, one that definitely deserved to be asked, but I had no answer. In complete honesty, I had not the slightest clue as to why I was acting in this way. It was out of character to how I normally treated life. But there was an explanation as to why I was acting the way I was. And that was the lack of medication. However, how would it appear to the girl if I suddenly responded with the truth? That I was not whacked out of my mind on some drug and so I was taking advantage of how it made me feel?

Audriana ought to hear about this. She should be the first person that could talk to me on a day like today. Then she could see the old Callen that she had enjoyed talking to so much. Not the recent one that was either too stoned on the grass wrapped in paper that the young man who lives next door gave me, or stoned on prescribed medication. Nobody wanted to be around that one. Especially me. Which kind of made no sense but I really didn't have a care in the world. So I decided to answer her. Because why not.

"I'm looking at the bricks. Counting them. I don't really know why."

I looked towards the girl just briefly before turning back to my bricks. Every one had to be counted since I had this intense focus now. It was just the way it had to be. Once I knew how many bricks there were, I could determine an average amount of bricks per building of this size and then figure out how many bricks were used in the making of our town square. That would be a cool thing to know, despite it being entirely useless. Although, who knows if we'll ever need to know that. Maybe our buildings will suddenly explode and we need to redo all of them and they'll wonder how many bricks did we use per building because we don't want to have to buy any more so we can just reuse them but we need to know so that we don't need more and we don't have extra so let's find somebody who knows and then I'll be like well I know how many bricks were in the buildings.

"Would you like to join me?" I asked, hoping to have some company, especially because this girl was really pretty.

He smiled as she agreed, meaning that he wouldn't be doing this alone. It was a boring task, obviously, but it was a necessary one. Seventy-four. Already at seventy-four bricks! He was only a metre off the ground and he was almost at one hundred whole bricks. What an amazing thing to do. Maybe he wasn't far off when he originally thought this was an interesting thing to do. I mean, yes, it was boring staring at bricks but there was nothing else to do on a day such as this. "If you count those bricks over there, we'll be able to do this in half the time." I motioned to some off to the side, hoping that she would go about counting them. It was pretty normal as I went along the bricks. Brick. Brick. Brick. But suddenly, there was a difference. One of the bricks had a fairly decent sized hole, one that would go unnoticed by all who walked by. My finger soon fit through the hole as I felt around for what caused it, only to feel cold metal against the tip.

My first instinct happened right away. After finding a thin stick that was long enough, I managed to slip it in beside the object and to attempt to pull it out slowly. Finally, the metal object landed in my other hand and all of the bricks suddenly became unimportant.

"Miss, I found a bullet." I muttered, turning in her direction.