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Kurapika wasn’t prepared for how cold and lonely this room would feel without Leorio. The silence, coupled with the sudden solitude, was just a little too much, too soon after tonight’s emotional blow-out. Kurapika frowned, then swung himself off the bed, padding quietly across the room to turn on the TV. There was a strange movie about a forbidden love affair between two rival hunters playing, overwrought and eye-rollingly melodramatic. Kurapika watched for a moment or two, caught between disgust and amusement (why were sex scenes in movies always so incredibly unappealing?), before he patiently flipped over to the news. The anchor’s low, droning voice filled the room, ticking off particulars of the weather, and he listened for a bit before glancing away. Kurapika didn’t actually want to watch anything, he just needed the background noise, that was all. It helped. Not enough, but at least now he wouldn’t feel quite so isolated. …show more content…

Kurapika turned in a half-circle, looking for — what? Nothing significant. He felt oddly restless, but there was nothing to do except wait, and he’d never been the type of person who liked having an excessive amount of free time on his hands. He needed tasks, distractions, he liked to work. Work was good. When he was working, he didn’t have to think about how much his parents wouldn’t have wanted this for him, how much he missed the natural beauty of Lusko Province...how much he just wanted to go home. But there was no home, nothing waiting for him except a

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