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Who: You
When: Day 52, morning
Where: Anywhere

[Of course there's still the flowers that, when stepped on, enhance or dull a sense, and there are still some chocolates in the lounge if you missed them or want more.

But this morning dawns with an infestation of bats.

That is, tiny tiny clockwork bats that get in your hair and coffee and make tiny tiny clockwork bat screeches.

Should you encounter a clockwork bat, and they're pretty hard to dodge, the next person you talk to will... Well, see one of your memories.

Otherwise it seems like a pretty typical morning, and the bats will be gone by afternoon.]

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You admitted it, and I told you I wasn't gonna let it go.

I did no such thing.

[And doing a decent impression of her voice.]

'I have thought long and hard about it and I have decided we should be friends, after all.'

And, 'If you believe it is a trick, then it is a trick.'

And I told you I didn't believe it was a trick.

[WHY ARE YOU STILL ON ABOUT THAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!]

Well, you are rather foolish.

[HE HAS A LONG MEMORY.]

Never claimed otherwise.

So nosy friend.

[so does she she just ALWAYS HOPES HE'LL FORGET]

We are not friends. I am claiming it now.

[HE CAN'T WITHOUT MAGICAL SOUL DESTROYING BULLSHIT, IT'S A PROBLEM.]

Nah.

It takes two to have a relationship.

[He raises an eyebrow and gives her a pointed look.]

[CONSIDERING THE MEMORY HE JUST SAW.]

[she stares at him and it's clear she isn't backing down.

yeah? that memory where it was said that you can force a relationship on someone and she didn't take well to that?

that memory?]

[It just also came with her perspective, so HE KNOWS WHY.]

Here's the thing, 80H. You're smart. You know I'm smart. We both know we can read between the lines and say things without saying them.

I made my terms clear. You answered them. You have yet to prove that you didn't mean it because you're a mess of a person and being indirect, movie cliche is very much a move you would pull. I gave you a choice, I gave you multiple warnings at the time, and yet you continued. You made a choice, and I'm going to hold you to it.

You want to end the relationship, that's a discussion.

Because I don't give up on friends. I don't. You'd have to be blind to not know that. And I care about you, whether or not you like it or believe it.

So, the question is, do you really want to have that discussion?

I told you it was a trick immediately after your grand declaration. Explicitly.

[so don't give her that!!]

Except before that, you said it was a trick if I thought it was a trick.

You gave the definition of it over to me. Why did you think I wouldn't take it seriously in that case?

Like I said, you're smart. I fully believe you'd know how I'd respond.

I am not that smart.

[Another POINTED LOOK AND RAISED EYEBROW.]

[just waits for him to finish]

80H, you're one of the smartest people I know.

Maybe the smartest, but without a doubt, up there.

You need to speak to more people.

I think you need to speak to more people. How in the world can you think you're not that smart?

Just being a good doctor puts you up there and that's without everything else including excellent magic user.

I am technically not a licensed physician.

Licenses don't magically dump the knowledge into your head.

My point is I am not a doctor.

[she just acts in that capacity whenever anyone needs it]

You still performed several highly invasive surgeries and we didn't die.

My point is you're as smart as one. Or do you want to tell me about the swathes of medical procedures that are impossible for you?

[on the one hand, waste of time, they'd be here all day.

on the other hand, waste of time, maybe he'd get sick of her and leave.

...

no he'd be too fucking stubborn to do that, damn him.)

Hardly necessary, thereis simply much I cannot do, let us leave it at that.

Then what is your 'limited' medical expertise?