{One (29)} &diams As I wait here in my silent misery / All I'm asking is please forgive me

[burntorangesky]

It seems a few days have passed since I was last [pause] here. Has anything especially noteworthy happened?

[Pen taps. Several words are started and scribbled out quickly.]

I see the dreams have returned again.

-Fred

[Added a few minutes later]
Rogue, are you... alright?

[ooc: Fred was reborn earlier today, but hasn't written in her journal

Comments

[desig_survivor]

So I guess you're my sister now, Fred? [Pause for sudden vague pings]

I wasn't really in a state to talk before - or do much of anything - but I'm good now, and it's good to see that you are, too.

[Pause, vague tiny doodle that looks very slightly like an X-Wing from above.]

Do you know what that one thing people drink here is? Mostly in the mornings? I know it's not caf; no one's heard of caf here, but I don't know what it's called.

[burntorangesky]

I suppose so; what a strange thing, to have a brother.

It is miraculous what time and a hot shower can to do restore one's spirits.

Do you mean coffee? Or tea? Though 'caf' looks closer to coffee to go by the spelling.

[desig_survivor]

I think I like it. Though now I suppose I have to defend your honor from Gene.

Oh, yes, that's what it's called. Coffee. Huh. I know it's strange to say, but I drifted off and had a dream with that smell. I haven't tried it yet; it's different enough from caf that I never wanted to. Maybe I should give it a chance.

[burntorangesky]

[Pause. Wat.]

Why are you defending my honor from Gene, exactly?

There's a nice cafe in the Bazaar that does a good coffee, I believe.

[desig_survivor]

If you think he's good enough for you, I don't have to. He seems like a fine enough young man, from the times we've met in passing. Rabbit I don't know much about, of course.

...Maybe I'm mixing up the brother role with the father one. Something tells me they wouldn't be the same. Let me think on this.

I'll have to do a flyby, then.

[burntorangesky]

Rabbit and Gene

[desig_survivor]

Just teasing you, Fred. I can stop if it makes you uncomfortable.

[burntorangesky]

I really ought to be used to it by now, what with Bell's tendency to do it.

[desig_survivor]

It's the little brother's prerogative to torment his sister, the big brother's to be overprotective. You look younger than me, and I'm not even going to try out-teasing Bell, but for all I know you're my age or older. Maybe I'll just be content with "new friend".

[spandexisyouth]

And this means that you are obligated to be nice to her.

[grab_my_bells]

Does this mean you're also obligated to be nice to him, and vice versa?

[spandexisyouth]

No. I was not born with him. But I am not rude to him.

[grab_my_bells]

But he's almost family, hm? Through Fred.

Inked preeeeetty quickly and very completely.

[spandexisyouth]

Family requires trust.

He'll ask you later then, in person, who counts as "family"

[grab_my_bells]

True.

People who do not lash out after seeing something out of context.

[spandexisyouth]