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[latkje]

[ This is Nash. He has a pleasant but lazy expression. ]

I don't like to live in the past. It makes me feel old. But when a thought eats at you, sometimes the only thing you can do is take a bite, right?

Anyway, a few weeks ago something the Initiative did put people in their wrong bodies. I don't mean to drudge up bad memories, but— think about it. What are we, really? Hands, feet, fingers, eyes?

We've all got bodies, but souls? [ He shakes his head. ] Not for me to say.

But if the Initiative can keep our fingers and toes and move the rest around, it means there has to be something else, right? And whatever that something else is, the Initiative can mess with it it.

[ The implications are spooky, so he takes a moment to be spooked. And then waves that all away, shrugging. ]

You ever stop to think, and not know how to start up again?

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[marked_for_death]

Oh I'm not sure about that. There are some things you are rather predictable about.

[latkje]

If I were unpredictable about everything, that'd be pretty predictable.

[marked_for_death]

I don't think that would make much of a difference when it comes to you.

[latkje]

And I don't know if I make much of a difference.

[ He shakes his head, chucking. ]

I'm really going in circles with this, tonight.

[marked_for_death]

[She laughed lightly in return, and while it was only voice, her smirk was evident in her tone.]

I was wondering how long it would take for you to notice.

Heh, you shouldn't let things weigh on your mind, Master Clovis.

[latkje]

It's hard. Some things need to be given due weight.

[marked_for_death]

Nothing worthwhile ever isn't, but is it worth the price you seem to be paying for it? [She's a hypocrite, considering all she did for the weight on her mind, but Elza always did have a nasty habit of putting those she cared for first.]

Perhaps you should cook something. [It's as close as she'll get to saying 'she's here to listen for free food to you.]

[latkje]

Do you really think I'm stressed, or do you just want free dinner?

I still cook with too much spice.

[marked_for_death]

I'll let you decide on that one.

How do you expect to learn if I'm not there to tell you?

[latkje]

It should be obvious. I don't expect to learn at all.

[marked_for_death]

[Good!]

Then I suppose that it just means that I'll have to keep on coaching you.

[latkje]

Y'know, most people don't take that as encouragement.

[marked_for_death]

I'm not like most people, you should know that better than anyone.

[latkje]

I'm beginning to realize I don't know most people.

[marked_for_death]

Where's the fun in that anyway? Most people are so mundane.

[latkje]

You really think so? I think it depends on how you look.

[marked_for_death]

Oh? Do enlighten me.

[latkje]

The sun rises every day— there's nothing more mundane than that. And yet, it's beautiful, and it changes, depending on how the clouds hang or the coldness hanging in the air. And you don't see it if you don't look.

I think it's interesting that we don't always look.

[marked_for_death]

Been there, done that. I've seen how all that 'beauty' ends and I've no interest in it. [Her so called loving parents had sold her, after all.]

Not all of us are born into privilege, Master Clovis.

[latkje]

And not all of us get to keep it.

Do you really think you can see the sky when you're cooped up in a mansion?

[marked_for_death]

I've seen the type of life both money and power give, along with the 'boundless blue skies' poverty brings. [Most of the Guild's clients came from wealth, and they had used that greed and lust for power for profit.] That sky is overrated along with all that comes with it.

Money and family are fickle friends, aren't they?

[latkje]

So you're jaded, it doesn't mean I'm naive.

I don't think money's anyone's friend.

[marked_for_death]

Jaded is such a simple term. Did I call you naive?

It is the friend of all those who crave chaos and disorder.

[latkje]

An ally, maybe. I wouldn't say she's a friend.

And no, but you implied I was sheltered.

[marked_for_death]

That would depend on who you ask.

You implied that yourself. Do you feel sheltered?