The Nineteenth Trial

[hot_mess_express]

Who: Everyone
When: Day 43, evening
Where: The Mermaid's Beach

Come on, come on heroes...! Come hither!

[ There's a playful giggle and the sound of splashing as the Mermaid's beach appears in the clearing. ]

Let's play a game...!

Comments

[schrodingerscockroach]

You're shutting down again.

But that was a my, so it's someone else. Whose not here.

Here, where bonds are necessary.

[voreaciously]

Yes, I am, because it is not important. I will leave the bonding to those capable of doing so.

[schrodingerscockroach]

Then tell me the not important things!

[voreaciously]

If it is not important, you do not need to know it.

[schrodingerscockroach]

Why are they not important?

[voreaciously]

Because I said so. Let it go.

[for once in your life.]

[schrodingerscockroach]

No.

Because I care about you.

I'm willing to listen. But you have to be willing to talk. Actually talk, because for supposedly not important things, they seem to be pretty big influences on your world view.

[voreaciously]

You need to stop caring about impossible people. They are a waste of time and energy.

[schrodingerscockroach]

It's my energy, I decide what is and isn't a waste of time for it.

[voreaciously]

...Yes I suppose it is.

[schrodingerscockroach]

And you're not a waste.

[voreaciously]

That I must disagree with.

[schrodingerscockroach]

Then we'll have to agree to disagree, but it's still my energy to do with.

And I'm not giving up on you.

[voreaciously]

[she is frustrated and her voice grows harsher if not precisely louder.]

Just do it! Nothing will come of being with someone like me, do you not understand that? I am the worst sort!

[schrodingerscockroach]

If you're the worst sort, then I have no problem being friends with the worst sort! I don't need anything to come of it.

[voreaciously]

[she stops and finally turns around to shake her head.] You are a fool, Dusk-han! Think of yourself!

[schrodingerscockroach]

I think of myself plenty. I'm just also great at multitasking.

[voreaciously]

I do not desire, deserve, need, nor seek anyone's friendship. You are wasting your time.

[schrodingerscockroach]

I don't think I am. To be wasting my time, I'd have to think you were a waste of my time.

And I don't think you're a waste of my time.

[voreaciously]

Pay attention to the whole of it.

[schrodingerscockroach]

I did.

You don't really need to seek it out when it's there. Level of needing friends is always up in the air for everyone. Desire...

[Well, he's pretty sure that's a lie on some level. Whether she does is a question.]

And the thing about deserving friendship is that's not something you decide. The person offering it is the one who decides if you deserve it and I think you're deserving of mine. So it's offered.

[And he also noticed she didn't say she can't have friendship this time.]

[voreaciously]

Well, I do not want it. So the matter is closed.

[schrodingerscockroach]

I'll still have it offered if you decide you do want friendship.

[voreaciously]

I do not and will not. If that will be all, then.

[schrodingerscockroach]

Depends if you're ready to talk about those 'not important' things. Because I am going to ask about them in the future.

I still want to understand you.