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[noarchitact]

WHO: You, you, & you.
WHERE: the Pasture!
WHEN: Day 91

[ 🐑 baaa. ]

Comments

[hardpity]

Private is way more relaxing.

[audacity]

Well, I was gonna offer to keep you company with whatever, but it's cool too if you'd rather relax privately.

[hardpity]

Well, part of privacy is being able to invite people over...

[audacity]

I was talking about not visiting Peony enough...

[hardpity]

D'you wanna come hang out in the hot spring?

[audacity]

Yeah, I do.

[ pauses and then ]

Wait, actually, there is one thing I gotta warn you for first. Ugly fish-related.

[hardpity]

Oh yeah?

[audacity]

[ gestures aides over, then sticks his hand in the fountain water. the water turns dark and starry and astral sea-ish around his hand, the effect fading elsewhere ]

It's just a weird aesthetic thing. The water doesn't really change.

[ takes his hand out, and it goes back to normal ]

But, uh, if that's gonna be too weird. I can use an illusion or something.

[hardpity]

I'll just pretend it's a bath bomb.

[audacity]

Sounds good to me.

[hardpity]

Does it bug you?

[audacity]

I mean, I was asking if it'd bug you. Kind of a weird thing to spring on someone.

[hardpity]

I'm fine with a lot of weird stuff, but the warning is appreciated... well, we're fixing itanyway, so.

[audacity]

Guess we are.

[ so,,,,, ]

Yeah, it kinda bothers me.

[hardpity]

It'd bother me if it was me, so... I mean, I'm already pretty self-conscious about the hair.

[audacity]

The hair is cool.

[ said like, instANTLY. loyally. ]

But yeah, there's been a few weird things like that. I've mostly been using illusion stuff to avoid it being too obvious.

[hardpity]

You've been going through it, huh.

[audacity]

[ shrug ]

I made a decision to keep her attention off the others. I got that, at least kind of.

[hardpity]

Right, but isn't that just more stressful?

[audacity]

What do you mean?

[hardpity]

Because it traps you in a 'protecting myself from this is the same as putting my friends in danger from it' hero dilemma.

[audacity]

[ don't @ him like this ]

I...okay, yeah, that's pretty much exactly why I didn't want any of you getting involved.

[hardpity]

And that's why it's extra stressful.

[audacity]

That's kind of normal for my life, for the record. But yeah. It's stressful.

[hardpity]

[ pats his head again ]

We'll fix you up. Then you can relax a bit. Stress builds up over time, you know.