081214meouetsami

 -- taciturnContagion [TC] began pestering arcaneArtisan2 [AA] at 21:24 --

 [09:25] TC: Meouet knocks on Sami's door.

 [09:25] AA: Sami comes to the door. It's been a while since anyone's sought her out.

 [09:25] AA: She opens the door and looks surprised to see Meouet. "Oh, hi Meouet."

 [09:26] AA: "Would you like to come in? I'm afraid it's a bit of a mess. I wasn't really expecting visitors."

 [09:27] TC: "Thank you. Though I really have to say this might not be the best of meetings for you."

 [09:27] TC: Meouet steps in.

 [09:27] AA: She looks confused.

 [09:28] TC: "Your selfishness has brought two men into the Ark."

 [09:28] AA: Sami's room is covered in papers. Some have drawings on them, others have notes in Sami's fanciful handwriting.

 [09:28] AA: Sami looks away. "Oh. That's what this is about."

 [09:28] TC: "If your agendas are important enough to sell your soul, mine should at least be given voice, yes?"

 [09:29] AA: Sami nods.

 [09:30] TC: "I thought you had understood the little talk we had earlier."

 [09:30] TC: "You even seemed to cheer up. What broke you back down so far?"

 [09:32] AA: Sami looks at her feet. "I really *was* doing better. But Doir said something about Dreambubbles....and I thought maybe there might be some way I could see Beau in my dreams, like Doir and Ryspor did when their dreamselves died. I asked Libby about it, and she took me to talk to the Horrorterrors....and instead of what I had intended, they offered to bring Beau back."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [09:32] AA: "I tried to say no. In fact, I *did* say no..."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [09:33] TC: Meouet nods. "Tricky deals with Tricker Demons."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [09:33] AA: "...but then they asked me why I would say no, and kept making these really cogent arguments..."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [09:33] TC: trickier*

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [09:33] AA: She looks away. "My will got weak."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [09:34] TC: "At least you know. A second time. It seems like you should work on that. Or at least read up on what you've made a deal with. To know what fate awaits you. It's not pretty."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [09:34] AA: "I've been doing that, actually. Ever since I made the deal pretty much."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [09:35] AA: Sami indicates the reams of paper scattered all over her room.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [09:35] TC: "That is probably for the best."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [09:35] TC: "Are you learning... Is that Twink?"

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [09:35] AA: "Horrorterrors, Chucklevoodoos, everything else I can find about Paradox Space..."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [09:35] AA: "...well, I'm trying."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [09:35] AA: "It's taking time."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [09:35] TC: Meouet nods. "Yes... I'm having a little trouble myself."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [09:36] AA: "Ryspor said he would teach me if I taught him the English alphabet."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [09:36] AA: "I didn't want to take the easy way like Doir did. I've asked Libby for enough favors....and I want to start standing on my own two feet."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [09:37] AA: "You're learning too though?"

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [09:37] TC: "Libby recorded all the sessions she's watched... Our offspring need a good chance."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [09:38] AA: "Yeah. I heard about them. Apparently I've got a son with Balish, another with Beau!"

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [09:38] AA: "Libby showed me some video of them."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [09:39] AA: "I think I remember the list....you had a kid with Glissa, I think? And another with Tlaloc?"

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [09:39] TC: "Ah. I... seem to have assisted in creating some disgusting money-grubbing male."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [09:40] TC: "Glissa and the human Aura."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [09:40] AA: "Oh. I got it wrong."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [09:40] AA: "Beau had a kid with Tlaloc, I think." Sami looks irritated when she says this.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [09:40] TC: "It's not as though she chose the combination."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [09:41] AA: "...I know. I'm sorry. I'm not mad at her."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [09:41] AA: "Or even the kid, or the guys in Maso. It's just a little irritating is all."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [09:41] AA: "Aura was really smart though! I'll bet you and her had a really smart kid together."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [09:42] TC: "It's another nail in the human corpsebox, so to speak."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [09:42] AA: "Yeah, I guess."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [09:43] AA: "I never knew Glissa that well. She was cute, and seemed friendly. But I don't think I ever really spoke to her."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [09:43] TC: "I had not met her. If anything I'm still disappointed that my genetics had the ability to create something... " She turns her head to the side and feigns gagging.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [09:43] AA: "Man, you really don't like boys, do you?"

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [09:43] TC: "Think about our session. Tell me which one of them has done any good?"

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [09:43] AA: "In *our* session?"

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [09:44] AA: She thinks about it pretty hard.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [09:44] TC: "Tell me how much you want that male Beau of yours."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [09:44] AA: "...that's a confusing situation, actually." She blushes a little.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [09:44] TC: "It is not so hard to get to this point." Meouet says, her chin up a bit high.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [09:44] AA: "I don't know. He's....I mean he's Beau. I can't NOT feel special aroun dhim."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [09:45] AA: "...but it IS still pretty weird for me that he's a boy."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [09:46] TC: "If you wish to taint yourself with that, by all means. Don't expect my support. Not that it means anything."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [09:47] AA: "...but you know, the boys have done a lot of good! I mean....Nate's kind of a jerk these days, but he's saved our asses a bunch of times in battle."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [09:48] TC: "and his aspect? He is our "last hope", and yet I see no hope."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [09:48] AA: Sami shrugs. "I still haven't figured that one out."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [09:49] TC: "a useless brute who is good in combat becomes useless again at the end of a fight."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [09:49] AA: "He's not useless, he's just sort of....broken. And doesn't want to be fixed." Sami sighs.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [09:49] TC: "Are you the sort who glues teacups back together and expects them not to leak?"

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [09:49] AA: "I don't know if I'm really the one to be defending him though. I've sort of gotten sick of him turning his back on the rest of us."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [09:50] AA: Sami tries not to eye the chipped teacup that clearly has a crack running along its side sitting on her desk.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [09:51] TC: (( AHAH IS THAT A THING ))

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [09:51] AA: (( IT IS NOW ))

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [09:51] TC: (( LMAO ))

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [09:52] AA: "I don't know though. Beau's different. He's Beau."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [09:52] TC: Meouet gets a... scary grin on her face. That's new.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [09:52] TC: "Oh. Is that right. Have fun then."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [09:52] AA: "What?"

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [09:52] TC: "Perhaps we can study some time."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [09:53] TC: She waves and tries to excuse herself.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [09:53] AA: "Is something wrong, Meouet?"

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [09:53] TC: "Nothing at all."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [09:53] AA: "Did I say something to upset you?"

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [09:53] TC: "No, I just remembered I failed to close the crate for my test crickets."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [09:54] AA: "Oh. Okay. Sure, though. I'd love to study together sometime, if you'd like."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [09:54] AA: She sighs. "And if I were to be completely honest, Meouet..."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [09:55] AA: Sami looks a little embarrassed. "His hair doesn't smell as nice anymore. And I miss how soft my Beau's skin was."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [09:55] AA: "And her lips."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [09:55] TC: "-Certainly-..." She says pointedly,

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [09:55] AA: "But don't tell him. Okay?"

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [09:55] TC: "You will get used to it..."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [09:55] AA: "I hope so."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [09:56] AA: "I would hate it if I turn out to be leading him on."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [09:56] TC: "Oh no. I just See. Remember, I am the passive class with nothing useful to show for it."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [09:56] TC: "I won't tell."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [09:56] AA: "You're not useless, Meouet! You're pretty much the most reliable and competent person on the team!"

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [09:56] TC: Meouet shakes her head.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [09:57] TC: "Maybe in a dream bubble."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [09:57] AA: "You may not get to sling magic around like me or do that crazy stuff that Rilset and Ryspor and Kate get up to..."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [09:57] TC: "Right. Crickets."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [09:57] TC: She waves.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [09:57] AA: "Oh. Okay."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [09:57] AA: "But you're not useless, okay?"

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [09:58] AA: Sami waves her out.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [09:59] AA: (( I'll post, if we're done here. ))

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> [09:59] TC: (( i can pos- oh ok ))