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Dite's Decadent Delights, Monday Afternoon

Dec 05, 2011 13:36

The last place Karla wanted to be was at work (or, you know, on the island at all), but unlike people kept insinuating, she knew her duty and she did it. And she'd be damned if she was going to skulk about and hide in her room, regardless. So here she was, chin up and head high, inventorying the stock since it was doubtful they'd be getting any ( Read more... )

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Re: Talk to Karla thatsamilkshake December 5 2011, 21:08:04 UTC

Francine had no uninvited opinions to share; just cupcakes.

She had opinions, but they amounted to I don't care what either of you did, you're both my friends and this is no time to make yourselves MORE miserable than the universe is already doing so kiss and make up NOW, dammit, or I will cry, or at least try to make you feel better with baked goods which she had the presence of mind to be aware should not be shared.

Which is why she was saying it with cupcakes. (And pretending she was mature enough not to blush when she came in here anymore. Pretending.)

"Karla?"

Re: Talk to Karla glacial_witch December 5 2011, 21:42:46 UTC

Francine. Karla was momentarily grateful that Katchoo wasn't with her. It was doubtful that Francine was going to yell--since Karla wasn't molesting Merlin--and Karla had had it up to here with yelling.

"Hi, Francine," Karla said, giving her a wan smile. "Good to see you."

Present circumstances (all of them) notwithstanding.

Re: Talk to Karla thatsamilkshake December 5 2011, 21:54:04 UTC

"Greetings." Francine held out her basket of goodies and offered a smile that was not quite as wan, though a tiny bit unsure. Was anyone managing a real smile this week? "I bring sugar and lack of judgement."

Or awareness that nobody had solicited her absence of opinion, either.

Re: Talk to Karla glacial_witch December 5 2011, 22:06:34 UTC

"You have no idea how thrilled I am about at least one of those things," Karla said, reaching for the basket. "These smell delicious. I know you brought them for me but--" she picked a cupcake up and held it back out to Francine. "Share?"

Then she set the basket down, pulling out a cupcake for herself and busied herself with peeling at the wrapper. She wasn't hungry, but she wasn't going to say that in front of someone who knew her appetite .

"Do I really even want to know what's being said?"

Re: Talk to Karla thatsamilkshake December 5 2011, 22:20:52 UTC

Like Francine would turn down baked goods no matter how dire the situation? Even baked goods she hadn't baked herself, what with the lack of a kitchen. She took the cupcake Karla had offered and set it on the counter to do her own unwrapping.

"I only heard what was on the radio: that you tried to go home, and then you and Warren..." Well, she assumed Karla knew that part and she didn't need to say it. "So I thought you maybe could use a friend and some cake. Or at least the cake. Everybody can use cake."

Re: Talk to Karla glacial_witch December 5 2011, 22:23:28 UTC

"I appreciate the friend part more," Karla said, trying to keep the naked gratitude away from her expression. "That's pretty much it in a nutshell, though. I tried. He stopped me. We fought."

Okay, she'd fought, he'd just stood there and took it, unyielding.

"I told him it was over. The end."

Re: Talk to Karla thatsamilkshake December 5 2011, 22:28:10 UTC

Francine winced. "He was afraid you'd get hurt?" Stupid question, given the guy on the radio had used the word doomed, but right now that could apply to anywhere, and she had no idea if he'd been exaggerating or not.

Re: Talk to Karla glacial_witch December 5 2011, 22:49:25 UTC

"Glacia is vanishing," Karla said with a reluctant nod. "Morton--my cousin--didn't seem to think it was weird to have a Territory made up of just a city and the outlying fields. The unicorns and dragons are gone."

People kept referring to it as suicide, but Karla didn't think of it that way at all. "Yes, I would have vanished with them. Yes, it was a hard decision to make and one I didn't really want to do. But it's something I felt I had to do--especially if it turns out that we can't stop this."

Re: Talk to Karla thatsamilkshake December 5 2011, 22:58:38 UTC

"So... you..." Francine was about to say wanted to disappear?? but Karla had already said that wasn't so. "I don't get it. I get that it's terrible - my world was disappearing too. But why go back, when we're... well, I don't know if we're safe, but it hasn't happened here yet."

Re: Talk to Karla glacial_witch December 6 2011, 00:21:55 UTC

Karla sighed and began trying to explain her reasoning to yet another person she didn't expect to understand it.

Not because it was Francine. But because nobody seemed to.

"Because I had a responsibility to my people," she said, tucking a lock of hair behind her ear. "Because being a good Queen to them in their last days was the most important thing I could do. It's--quite literally--the reason I was born." Queens--they healed the land and the hearts of their people, they were the Blood's center and their moral compass. Being born into that caste meant accepting those responsibilities and upholding them, no matter the cost.

"If I'd thought that me being here would somehow lead to us finding a solution--or even that my absence would lead to us not finding one--of course I would have stayed. But I'm just one person on an island filled with smarter people, better fighters, and skilled tacticians. It didn't seem like much of a gamble--either people would fix it and I'd be back, or they wouldn't and it would be that much more important ( ... )

Re: Talk to Karla thatsamilkshake December 6 2011, 01:40:39 UTC

"I don't understand what that's like, to feel that responsible for ...everybody, but I know what it's like to want to help and not be able to. But--"

Shut up, Francine.

For once, holy crap, she actually listened to her inner voice when it said something intelligent and didn't sound like her mom. She shut up until she knew what she was going to say.

"Is it okay if I'm glad you're still here?"

Re: Talk to Karla glacial_witch December 6 2011, 01:50:49 UTC

Karla huffed a small laugh at that. "Yeah. You can be glad. I'm not...glad that I'm here, exactly? I'm...rather kind of pissed off about it."

Obviously.

"But I'm kind of glad I'm here, too, at the same time. I really hadn't wanted to go, I just...needed to. Once I get over being pissy about why I'm still here, I'll probably be even more glad about it."

Re: Talk to Karla thatsamilkshake December 6 2011, 02:03:01 UTC

"I can understand that. Why you're mad, I mean." That was the easier thing to understand, really.

Re: Talk to Karla glacial_witch December 6 2011, 08:24:03 UTC

"You're one of the very few who do," Karla said, grimacing. "Everyone else acts like I'm supposed to be appallingly grateful."

Re: Talk to Karla thatsamilkshake December 6 2011, 17:48:46 UTC

That last but had to make its way into words eventually; the thing that Francine was grateful for was that it had waited until she had a little control over her tongue. "I... I guess I get that too. I mean I'm grateful. And... if I had any chance of stopping you, I probably would've tried too. But you'd have every right to be mad at me if I did."

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