Run #9: Video

[thinkin_arbys]

[She looks a little bit confused, edging toward annoyance, but this isn't unusual for her. What is unusual is the fact that she has a GIANT ROCK on her hand: a massive diamond engagement ring, courtesy of a Guide malfunction. She is sincerely hoping no one notices, because it is stuck. Seriously, she has the worst job this month. Well, at least the

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[note_atem]

We've had a masquerade before. [Feel free to note that him wearing a mask would not hide who he is in any shape or form. lol]

[thinkin_arbys]

I did go to a garden party, of course, but... This isn't the same.

[note_atem]

People just like celebrating. It makes them feel better.

[thinkin_arbys]

It still seems unwise to distract so many people at once.

[note_atem]

The ones who feel the same will probably not attend, or at least keep an eye out.

[thinkin_arbys]

...I'm concerned, for a variety of reasons. It just doesn't make sense.

So, logically, I might attend just to make sure nothing happens. [Actual sigh. Yep.]

[note_atem]

Getting together and celebrating make others feel less alone and more at home in this place. It overrides their rationality of what might happen when their backs are turned. [Basically he's agreeing with you, but he does understand why this happens.]

[thinkin_arbys]

Maybe I'm being paranoid. It could be harmless.

[note_atem]

I don't think being careful is ever a bad thing.

[thinkin_arbys]

No, not at all.

Is this the sort of thing you would attend?

[note_atem]

[Somehow this feels like a tough question. There is a small pause.]

Not normally. I've been asked to go to more than one of these events; that's when I go. [Frands and obligations and all that.]

[thinkin_arbys]

I feel out of place even thinking about it. This place has put me in more completely unsuitable social positions than I ever wanted to know existed.

[SHE IS ACTUALLY JUST BITCHING. Sad, isn't it?]

[note_atem]

[He hesitates yet again but this time for a different reason.]

Does that include the ring on your finger? [Yes, he had noticed.]

[thinkin_arbys]

So it seems.

[She. Hates. Everything.]

[note_atem]

[It must be an extreme obligation otherwise he doesn't think she'd be bothered with it. He tries a light grin.]

The price you pay must ultimately be worth it. [BECAUSE DED AND STUFF but he's being deliberately vague because privacy or whatever even though before she'd said she thought it would get out.]

[thinkin_arbys]

These Guides... Sometimes I wonder if there's a conspiracy against us, centered around them.