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[nocakestoday]

One of my nicest friends found his way home.  Venus put on her best dress and dipped closer to sing with Mars, but Mars hasn't got a voice today.

We'll go 'round and 'round, coming and going and always missing the ones we want to see.

I ask every night for someone nice.  Bits of the world fall in, but not the right bits.  I don't like them--

Comments

[dreamsofnoah]

There's another dragon left~ at least. A real one, not like the dinosaurs.

[nocakestoday]

Is he all caged up?

[dreamsofnoah]

I don't think Kurai would let him be caged. She's very fond of him.

[nocakestoday]

All the better! Every story needs a dragon, and dragons need to be free to fly and burn little villages.

[dreamsofnoah]

Or big Cities~.

[nocakestoday]

How well do those burn?

[dreamsofnoah]

I expect we shall have to wait~ and find out.

[nocakestoday]

How long?

[dreamsofnoah]

If it takes too long on its own, maybe we should hurry it up~.

[nocakestoday]

Yes--hurry down doomsday and watch the worlds unravel! You've got beautiful ideas. I want to see the insides of your head.

[dreamsofnoah]

I can't wait~ to see it! Coming all to pieces so prettily.

The insides of my head are just filled with the insides of everyone else's~.

[nocakestoday]

Worlds come apart like colored glass. Ohh, I'd wear the end on a necklace if I could.

A mosaic? Mummy made patchwork quilts like that.

[dreamsofnoah]

It would be the prettiest necklace of all time and all places.

A puzzle that can't be put together because the corners are missing and the edges won't fit.

[nocakestoday]

And how it would sparkle!

Puzzles are no fun if they can be solved. I've lost so many pieces of mine...

[dreamsofnoah]

Mismatched pieces are always the most~ fun.

Dru~silla. I want to find myself a pet~. Help me choose?

[nocakestoday]

Oh, yes! I do like picking pets. What would you like, sweet? A pretty bauble, an innocent doll...?