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The two sat in silence at the table for a while, a server stopping by for a moment to give them each a cup of coffee. Tatsumi looked up at Alister as they both sipped their drinks. Alister broke the silence again for the first time in a few minutes.

"Why did you do it anyway?" Tatsumi looked up as Alister queried him.

"Try to kill yourself, I mean." Alister continued, putting down his mug, sweeping his bangs over his left eye again.

"I don't think you'd understand.."

"Try me." Alister swiftly retorted.

"I just feel like, I'm empty."

"Empty? What do you mean by 'empty'?" Alister asked, flashing concern.

"It feels like something's.. missing. Something that should be there just isn't, and that's what's been bothering me." Tatsumi heaved a heavy sigh as he finished his thought, taking another sip from his coffee.

"I can't say I don't understand, but I certainly never--" Alister quickly jumped out of his seat, facing the back corner of the diner as other patrons looked at a most peculiar sight. The broken-down jukebox suddenly sprang to life, its neon lights glowing as if the machine had never broken to begin with. After a few seconds, the jukebox's speakers started to play static, as if a radio was tuned to a blank frequency; quietly, and faintly, a song began to play through the static. ... David Bowie's Starman. Only a few seconds of the song could be heard at a time before it would dissolve into noise.

"What in the hell...?" Alister uttered, confused.

"There's a starman-----ing in the sky-----not------it---" the jukebox struggled to say, stuttering out the song it attempted to play.

"I've never seen a jukebox do that before.." Tatsumi remarked with a strange sense of wonder.

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