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[heartdissonance]

[Today, she's sitting-- ah, it seems as though she's atop a telephone pole. Not the first time she's made a post from up there, and not the first time she's been seen with birds at her shoulders. The heat still gets to her and so she's dressed very simply.

The wrist of her free hand is at her mouth and she speaks thoughtfully in her tiny, throaty

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[reigning_cloud]

All irrelevant. If death scares you, then you have no business having power in the first place. If you want to be protected, then stay an herbivore.

[heartdissonance]

Ah! Firm belief right off the bat. You aren't, then, scared of it.

[reigning_cloud]

[snorts] No.

[heartdissonance]

[The smile bares teeth and she shifts the bird from her head to her fingertips.]

That's good.

[regive]

[Most of this just flew right over her head. But--]

Hey, how come the birds don't fly away when you touch them?

[heartdissonance]

Ah. They like me.

[regive]

That's all?

[heartdissonance]

That's all.

[voice]

[dancing_pierrot]

You're quite frequently philosophical, aren't you?

[voice]

[heartdissonance]

Well, I'm quite frequently napping.

[voice]

[dancing_pierrot]

Don't deflect the question.

[voice]

[heartdissonance]

I deflected it.

[deadfreesia]

If there is nothing you want out of life, there is no point in being alive at all. Between a life without meaning and a death with achievement, isn't the latter a better choice?

[heartdissonance]

Is it? I don't know; I was asking you.

[deadfreesia]

I believe I answered.

[heartdissonance]

Of course. I mean to say that since I asked you and not myself, my own answer to 'isn't the latter a better choice' is irrelevant.

voice

[heavendivided]

Hm. If we ever get to return to our own worlds, you should come and visit mine for a decade or two, and if you're really interested in finding out the question to that answer, you will.

voice

[heartdissonance]

It might not be a good idea.

voice

[heavendivided]

Why not?

voice

[heartdissonance]

I've left certain things undone, still. There are matters I'd need to attend to first of all.