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[excellinnuendo]

[ Excellen has been kicked out of many places in her time: bars, restaurants, nightclubs, that one time in Build-a-Bear. But today is a day unlike any other.

Because today is the day Excellen Browning is thrown out of a library. ]

No, not now, Mommy...

[ The Vine shows a sleeping Excellen being carried out of the library by one of the bear

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[mnementomori]

Excellen? Are you okay?

[video]

[mnementomori]

But it's about me and Sora?

[she tries to put things together with what she's heard before.]

Is it kissing?

[video]

[excellinnuendo]

Hmm. Weeell, that's a part of it...

[video]

[mnementomori]

Sephiroth talked about...stuff that "adults" do when they're together. But she said it has to do with being older, too. Is it important?

[video]

[excellinnuendo]

It's very, very important! But it's knowledge that must be given at the proper time.

[video]

[mnementomori]

And you'll know when that time is?

[video]

[excellinnuendo]

Yup, that's right. And don't forget to ask any questions that might come to mind! I'll try my best to answer them.

[video]

[mnementomori]

Thanks, Excellen.

[she can't help being a little impatient, but she trusts her friends.]

[video]

[excellinnuendo]

[ INCHES CLOSER TO THE MIRROR, LIKE SHE'S ASKING A ABOUT DIIIRTY SECRET. ]

So, what does my little Xion know about kissing and all that?

[video]

[mnementomori]

What do I know? Well, it's something you do with someone you love. I've only done it once, though... [she trails off, thinking.]

But there are different kinds of love, so that gets confusing. If you kiss someone, does that mean you love them that way?

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[excellinnuendo]

Hmm, a very good question, my student! Let Miss Browning put on her teaching cap.

Kissing can mean a whole lot of things, all depending on who is involved and where you'd doing it. In some places, it's normal to kiss everyone! What's important, though, is what you and the other person think it means, because then that's...what it means! There isn't just one meaning to it.

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[mnementomori]

What if you don't know?

Because what happened was...there were these plants everywhere, and if you stood under one you had to kiss someone. So I ran into my friend Sora--um, a different Sora, there were two people named Sora, but this one left...we ended up kissing.

Then she started apologizing to me, which was confusing.

[video]

[excellinnuendo]

I see, I see. That makes perfect sense.

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[mnementomori]

It...does? How?

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[excellinnuendo]

Kissing makes a lot of feelings and they can be strange and new to people. People get scared of strange and new things, sometimes! So even if they like it, they'll apologize.

It is very complicated, but you'll understand eventually.

[video]

[mnementomori]

[long pause.]

So....does that mean she liked me?