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[cleverestofall]

 Ushas is not in the habit of asking anyone for help, but if she's here now, she may as well put the opportunity to good use; she is nothing if not practical, after all. Shifting uncomfortably on one of the sofas, she mumbles, "Alright. I'm not keen on this. But

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[fireburned]

"The fuck?" Harvestman is quite a useless person to answer this question. "Get therapy."

[cleverestofall]

Ushas tilts her head back and raises an eyebrow up at the stranger, very coolly indeed. "How charming of you. Why would I do that? My mental health is undoubted. I'm the most rational person I have ever met."

[fireburned]

He rolls his eyes. It's almost as if he's a teenager and not a vampire. "You don't get romantic love, sounds like. You don't get sex. You got no idea how to go 'bout wooing some guy. You either need to talk to someone 'bout how you function emotionally, or read a romance novel. You'll get into his pants either way."

[cleverestofall]

"Of course I don't get romantic love," Ushas says, sounding almost angry. "There's nothing to get. It's hugely irrational. But surely on some level- an intellectual respect for someone and a...natural biological desire born of an outdated instinct to ensure my race's survival despite technology that renders that instinct obsolete- surely it's just a confusion of the two that I'm feeling."

[fireburned]

He raises both eyebrows, very slowly. "How old are you?"

[cleverestofall]

"One hundred and twenty one. Please don't dismiss me as some kind of silly teenager, though. I may be young but I am very intelligent and self-aware enough to understand how ridiculous this all is." She sighs. "Rationally speaking, I should ignore it. But I don't want to."

[fireburned]

"Shit, here I was gonna rant 'bout hipsters for a moment." This is mostly mumbled for his own benefit; she's older than him and it rankles, but more importantly, she's old enough to know better.

"Alright, don't go all 'rationally' and 'biologically' on me and shit. People are people. Things like wanting to be admired or wanting to have a relationship with someone aren't irrational, they're key to how societies run and function. Logically nothing - you like somebody and you want them to like you back. Be honest 'bout it with yourself and with him, okay?"

[cleverestofall]

"Perhaps they're normal things for other people, but not me. It's simply not...compatible with who I am at all. It's frightening how easily I'm being knocked off-balance. What's more, it would never actually work between us. He's very...no, he sees me as a friend. Occasional rival." Ushas sits back and pinches the bridge of her nose. "Alright. So. Logic. If I want to be happy I should obviously take whatever path is most likely to bring me happiness. If I chase him, it will end in misery if I don't get him and if I do get him, I could become distracted from everything I had planned previously. I'll regret that. If I try to let it pass...then I don't know."