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[despitethenora]

What is it now?

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Re: day 19

[nobetawedielike]

[ gently teasing, ]

It's a lot cooler on hot days.

Re: day 19

[despitethenora]

I've been in the desert. I lived.

[But GAIA, there were some afternoons she thought she was going to heat stroke.]

Re: day 19

[nobetawedielike]

And how else would people at home recognize you without the..."flame hair"?

Re: day 19

[despitethenora]

Caught that, huh? I think I like it better from Petra than most.

Re: day 19

[nobetawedielike]

You don't miss 'savior'?

Re: day 19

[despitethenora]

[That gets her to make a face.]

I only like those when it lets me cut through something.

[Titles are for social challenge speedrun tactics.]

Re: day 19

[nobetawedielike]

At least you admit it!

Re: day 19

[despitethenora]

What, did you want one?

Re: day 19

[nobetawedielike]

Absolutely not. It sounds exhausting.

Re: day 19

[despitethenora]

Smart call. People who have titles are usually just trouble.

Re: day 19

[nobetawedielike]

So that's why you have so many.

Re: day 19

[despitethenora]

Eugh. I'm just trying to get things done.

Re: day 19

[nobetawedielike]

People are a lot less cooperative than gene-locks.

Re: day 19

[despitethenora]

. . . Anyway. I like my hair long. Probably going to let it get a little longer, if I can.

Re: day 19

[nobetawedielike]

[ she's leading them to the long, winding path to town finally ]

Do you think knowing how to do different things with hair is a - "mom thing"? Megumi seems like a mom...

Re: day 19

[despitethenora]

[She’s glancing away, but keeping stride. Beta’s more likely to know from the fiction of family sitcom, tbh.]

Maybe - teaching it to someone is.

She is a mother. A matriarch, among her people.

Re: day 19

[nobetawedielike]

It makes sense. She's pretty great at being nice and comforting. I was so scared when we first got here, and she just hugged me until I felt better.

[ she also cried but shhh ]

Re: day 19

[despitethenora]

[That's what makes sense...would Elisabet have acted like that for them?]

I'm sorry I wasn't there, back then.

Re: day 19

[nobetawedielike]

We're together now, that's what's important.

Re: day 19

[despitethenora]

So - was that before any of these games started happening?

Re: day 19

[nobetawedielike]

It was. We'd only just managed to get out of the houses, and she was going around checking on people.

[ then, with a sudden laugh ]

And there was this guy! He saw the trees and started hugging them and crying.

Re: day 19

[despitethenora]

Ha. That sounds like her.

[A baffled little smile spreads.]

Hugging them?

Re: day 19

[nobetawedielike]

Yeah! Just took one look and threw himself at them.

Re: day 19

[despitethenora]

I like trees, but that’s - overboard.

[Did this place used to have more dumb puppies to watch. . .]

Re: day 19

[nobetawedielike]

I don't know about hugging trees, but it might be fun to climb one, one day.