Kitty illness and my own general malaise delayed this. It was originally triggered by mithrigil 's "Shut Sumeragi Subaru Up!" Challenge (final postings here ). Though it turned out not so much about how to shut Subaru up as what happens when he actually *does* shut up. Nevertheless.... Subaru talks too much. Not out loud, of course. Anyone who knows him would laugh at the idea of words, sentences, whole monologues spilling from him in a ceaseless, unstoppable rush like the steady... read more