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[featherduster]

[ Frowns . . . ]

Is removing it difficult?

[endsjustified]

No, it's just tricky. I'm not a specialist, so it takes an hour or two for me to place or remove one.

[featherduster]

Sounds . . . annoying.

So when you say "have warning" . . .

[ Are you asking him to. Schedule feathers. Is that it. ]

[endsjustified]

I assure you, if you want to spontaneously repeat what happened in the library without warning instead, I don't actually have any complaints.

[like. he sure wasn't feeling it until they were out of the mindlink.]

But you're concerned about it, and giving a little notice is the available solution, so.

[featherduster]

[ what the fuck Charon ]

. . . I'll think about it.

Just seems like a lot of hassle for little reason.

[endsjustified]

You'll need to when you want to work on your own abilities, anyway...

You don't seem the time to use it casually, though.

[featherduster]

Gonna be honest, I wouldn't have imagined using it at all, ever.

[endsjustified]

I would bet good money you never imagined turning up in a pasture full of green grass, open water, and deadly little animals, either.

[featherduster]

[ Matter-of-factly: ]

Oh, I actually thought I was dead for the first day or so.

[endsjustified]

Minuet.

Did you come here right from dealing with your brother?

[featherduster]

What?? No! It's been months . . .

[endsjustified]

[don't think about the fact that people are revived and get memory problems here all the time, don't think about that, do not. relaxes, but only a hair]

So you thought the time had just run out.

[featherduster]

Well, who knows? Like I said, it's a mystery how that's gonna work out.

It's just-- I imagined Eden would look a lot like this place. Grass. Trees . . .

[endsjustified]

It is beautiful.

Seeing Styx must not have helped that illusion.

[featherduster]

He's convinced it couldn't be that because he'd be in hellfire and I wouldn't.

[ ROLLS HIS FUCKIN EYES ]

[endsjustified]

Hm.

[quietly revises whatever he was going to say to something more neutral]

He's working through some things. Maybe some of that conviction will be worn away by the end of our time here...I hope so.

[featherduster]

It's gonna be a process, but Lily's good for it. It wouldn't work with just one person whose opinion he can write off.

[endsjustified]

Mmh.

We also had to have a conversation about...well, conversations. I'm nowhere near as good as Perci or Lethe at having them with him, but we figured a few things out.

[then everything blew up lol]

[featherduster]

A conversation about conversations.

[ Buddy? ]

[endsjustified]

Among other things...when he is talking seriously, or simply talking to hear himself talk.

I do not always know how to hear the difference, yet. He was unaware. We have established that I will ask, if I am not sure.

[featherduster]

Ah.

Yeah. I was gettin' the impression you two are speaking totally separate languages.

[endsjustified]

Something like that.

Ah, well; it is worth it to learn.

[featherduster]

. . . I'm proud of both of you. For trying, that is.

It'd be much easier not to.

[endsjustified]

I'm fundamentally opposed to not trying, if an endeavor is worthwhile.

It's a waste to not.

[featherduster]

. . .

[ JUST MAKES THIS FACE AND DOES NOT EXPLAIN ]