oo1. i'm a walking travesty.

[skimpysandwich]

[His handwriting is small and meticulous, but only because he was actually focused on making it legible. It slants slightly down the page, without the benefit of lines to keep it from doing so. He pauses no less than twenty times halfway through any sentence or word.]So anybody can read this? That seems kinda weird to me. I dunno, maybe it's

Comments

[cathar_jedi]

I cannot say whether I have or have not wished to live arboreally, but I must say that when phrased as such, it is a familiar concept.

[skimpysandwich]

[Oh this one talks all sorts of fancy. He straightens his posture out of subconscious habit.] See? Secretly we all wanted to live... arboreally. [He'll have to remember to write that word down elsewhere and use it when he wants to look smart.]

[cathar_jedi]

Perhaps.

I suspect that if ever I have, I would have preferred this tree to be part of a forest.

[skimpysandwich]

[There's a pause before he replies, where he recalls all the trees in the basin in his dream.]

That sounds pretty nice, actually.

[cathar_jedi]

Yes.

I am sorry to say that this world is not so pleasant. Some of its ways may be learned, however.

I am Juhani.

[skimpysandwich]

So far it's not so bad. But I'm still new and in the learning process, so I might change that assessment later.

Sven.

[cathar_jedi]

Know before anything else that there are times in which absurd or humiliating things happen. As a rule, they do not last long.

[skimpysandwich]

[He appears to have started taking notes up in one corner of the page-- added to it in scribbly shorthand is "absurd or humiliating-- doesn't last long".]

Got it. Thanks, for that.