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[dodgyallround]

[OOC: So... please pretend this showed up just after leaving Shashta and a little before the current plot weirdness?][Private//Text

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[windsofdaytime]

Cards and booze aren't important.

[windsofdaytime]

Sometimes it crosses the street. Sometimes a wagon or a streetcar runs it over. What does that have to do with anything?

[dodgyallround]

You're a cat at rush hour. You need a few street smarts.

[windsofdaytime]

I am not a cat. You're the second person who has called me one.

[dodgyallround]

Do you own a dictionary, kid?

[windsofdaytime]

No.

[dodgyallround]

Well there's your first problem.

Get one. Look up 'metaphor'.

[windsofdaytime]

That's the word he used, too.

I don't like being ordered to do things.

[dodgyallround]

You wanna look smart, you need to understand what a metaphor is, kid.

Think of it as a suggestion instead of an order.

At least he got here after she learned about wanting things in the first place.

[windsofdaytime]

Tch. I'll do what I want.

Yeah, 'cos that would have been so much easier to take advantage of.

[dodgyallround]

Not if it's how other people interpret you, you won't.

[windsofdaytime]

That makes no sense.

[dodgyallround]

You don't control how other people think. You tell them you're smart, they won't believe it unless you sound it.

And you don't know what a metaphor is, so you're not doing too well with the sounding smart.

[windsofdaytime]

I don't care what you think anyway.

[dodgyallround]

Yeah. Sure seems that way.

Oh, and after metaphor, check sarcasm.

No, Kaoru, you are strange.

[windsofdaytime]

You're strange.