rose: fight the throes of boredom

[fluthlu]

[Rose is bored. Bored, and cramped. She isn't used to living around so many other people, and it's gone from interesting to irritating very quickly. So for the past few days, she's been spending as much time as possible up on the roof, enjoying the one good thing she's found about this place - the wishes. The castle gave her a violin, and

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[duchess_archer]

Is this an 'I'm going insane' warning?

[fluthlu]

I wouldn't know. Sanity is a measure based in social norms and best determined by the observer. It's possible that we're all insane here, but have no one lucid available to inform us.

[duchess_archer]

That is deep, man. Deep.

You really think you're not sane then?

[fluthlu]

I may be, or I may not be. What do you think - do I seem sane to you?

[duchess_archer]

Excessively so.

[fluthlu]

You say it as though it's a bad thing.

[duchess_archer]

A little crazy is a good thing, yeah.

[fluthlu]

Oh, I entirely agree. It would difficult to get by here without a healthy dose of madness.

[duchess_archer]

Yeah, every time I run into a dragon, I remind myself of that.

[fluthlu]

Ah, I presume then that you're from what one might call the conventional, human-dominated version of Earth? It seems to be a popular home world here.

[duchess_archer]

Oh, yeah, basically. Humans everywhere. What dominates yours?

[fluthlu]

My Earth was dominated by humans as well, although there was an abundance of intelligent non-human life elsewhere in the universe.

[duchess_archer]

Aliens, huh?

Yeah, gotta say my world is opposite. In that there was an abundance of non-intelligent human life right there.

[fluthlu]

Yes. Humanoid aliens, to be precise.

Of course, we had plenty of that as well. I believe ignorance is a universal trait.

[duchess_archer]

Aliens so frequently are.

Yeah, they keep coming to work even when you shoot them. It's hilarious, like, come on, Brett, you were shot. Just quit already. Anyway, they deserve what they get.

[fluthlu]

... I'm going to assume that shooting coworkers without consequence is part of a cultural difference.