Second Bloom

[lotus_bloomed]

I have been looking in to the different jobs, but I am not certain yet what it is that I would be good at. I know that lots of different people here do different things, like work with the Guard or the Watch or as scavengers or medics or things like that. What does everyone reading this do, and do you like it?

[There's a puddle of ink here as the

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[spandexisyouth]

Lotus, I do not think that everyone needed to know that.

[lotus_bloomed]

Oh. I am sorry, Father. Was it a secret?

[spandexisyouth]

It was not a secret, but most people do not write about things like that. You do not have to apologize, though, you did not know!

[lotus_bloomed]

Oh.

What else do people not normally write about?

[spandexisyouth]

Things that they think are private. Sometimes details from memories or dreams stay private. Information found out about this place is not safe to write down in the journals.

[lotus_bloomed]

Oh. So that means that you and Bell being partners is private?

Why?

[spandexisyouth]

It does not need to be entirely private. In some ways it would be good for people to know that he is just teasing others. But it is a matter that is more between the two of us than it is with everyone.

[lotus_bloomed]

Oh. I think I understand... at least, a little bit. Does that mean that I should not talk about it on the journals?

[spandexisyouth]

It is your journal. You are free to write what you want to in it. But I would prefer if that topic did not get written on.

[lotus_bloomed]

Oh...

I am sorry, Dad. I did not mean to write about something that I should not. It is just that this is all very confusing and I am still trying to figure it out and how I feel about it and everything.

[spandexisyouth]

That is fine! You are a growing boy who is learning and it is good to learn!

[grab_my_bells]

It's not like he's telling them something they didn't already know.

[spandexisyouth]

[Pentaps.] You think that everyone knows already?

[grab_my_bells]

Maybe. You aren't exactly the most subtle man on the journals, after all.

[lotus_bloomed]

I think that you are the one who is not very subtle.

[grab_my_bells]

Or so you'd like to think.