The Day After (mingle)

[wants_the_phd]

WHO: sheep
WHERE: sheep
WHEN: First half of Day 34

[ What even happened yesterday? Do we remember? ...What if we'd rather forget? ]

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[afineknight]

[ He sounds so tired at this point. ]

Hola, Pudín.

[villainrole]

[my poor amigo, his life is so hard]

Now why do you think I am calling you?

[afineknight]

Because Tart has asked practically everyone in the pasture to call me.

[villainrole]

A bit of a bully, isn’t he?

[afineknight]

I did not think he would be awake enough to do something like this.

[villainrole]

I do think he’s been pretty active… A dangerous dilemma the day he becomes a coffee drinker, perhaps.

[afineknight]

It is not a bad thing necessarily.

[villainrole]

Is that what you’ve decided on?

[afineknight]

. . .

Over these last few weeks, I went from thinking he was extremely lazy to realizing that he just does things in his own fashion. But when he does them, there are no half measures. I asked for a clinic and, even after Clover requested one, he still works relentlessly on one as an addition to our barn.

[villainrole]

And are you not the same as him?

[afineknight]

It's— different with me.

[villainrole]

Is it?

[afineknight]

It is.

[villainrole]

But at the moment, you don't wish to explain.

[afineknight]

Pudín, this item that Tart wants to use — it can also be used to shield and teleport a group of people to safety once. One time only. You understand what I am saying, correct? It could save us. And he wants to use it this way instead.

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[villainrole]

[He lets out a sigh.]

[villainrole]

To be honest, it isn't as if I disagree with you. In fact, I would say it makes sense. It is important that we protect Daffodil, but it also feels useless if all of Daffodil is killed and can't come back.

[afineknight]

But this could keep that from happening.

[villainrole]

It's true.

...

But let me ask you this.

Aren't you a little bit curious to see what Tart will do in that situation?

[afineknight]

It's Tart. If he did not have that item, then in that situation he would—

[ he thinks.

. . . ah. ]

. . . do anything in his admittedly massive power to protect us.

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[villainrole]

That is a curiosity worth exploring, isn't it? Like you said, once upon a time, it appeared that Tart wasn't someone who enjoyed moving into action, and yet the truth is that it's something where he actually can't help himself. If it's inconvenient to him, he'll move to fix it, and every day, it feels like he's facing different inconveniences. Why is it that your death has become such an inconvenience to someone like him? Someone who is unlikely to return with you to your world.

I find it fascinating, and I want to delve deeper into his core to see how far he goes. What happens when he cannot fix the inconvenience? Or what happens when he recognizes that his actions are happening not because of an inconvenience but for something else?

Ah, but he's done that recently, hasn't he? A rage so loud everyone on the field could hear it . . .

[villainrole]

But you, too, gave me a knife that day of your own volition.

That's a curiosity as well.

I will not be the one to tell you that you have worth or not because I would be a hypocrite. However, I will tell you that I think there IS worth in Tart's decisions. For him. For you.

Perhaps even myself.

[afineknight]

[ pudding you're scaring me. ]

. . .

Okay.

[villainrole]

[laughing]

I told you, I’m a villain.

[afineknight]

[ DO YOU NEED YOUR FROGGY FORK??? ]

You have said that before.