ARIESPRITE: All right.
ARIESPRITE: I understand the necessity of sealing the lower levels and opening the upper windows for your consorts.
ARIESPRITE: But why on earth would you need to go to the trouble of duplicating all this vegetable oil?
NESSIAH: While all of us are capable of at least a little cooking, Gulcasa is by far the most accomplished chef of any of us.
NESSIAH: He said he was running out, so I decided that I may as well make some more.
NESSIAH: Everyone's going to get hungry at some point, and this could take around a month.
NESSIAH: We can buy some things from the consorts, but probably not everything, so it's best to think ahead.
ARIESPRITE: I see.
NESSIAH: Of course, that's not the only reason.
NESSIAH: Disruptions are very frustrating, and can't always be recovered from by going back to sleep.
NESSIAH: On top of which, we shouldn't expect that we'll be able to just sidle off to Prospit whenever we feel like it.
NESSIAH: We can't let that keep us from enjoying our free time forever, wouldn't you say?
ARIESPRITE: ............
ARIESPRITE: I don't really get why you keep sharing these details with me.
ARIESPRITE: It's very weird hearing about this from someone who is technically my alternate self.
ARIESPRITE: Weird and slightly disgusting. I believe the term is "too much information"?
ARIESPRITE: What do you want to hear from me? "It's nice that you're playing safe"?
NESSIAH: You did ask.
NESSIAH: And it's not that I want to hear anything from you specifically...
NESSIAH: You just make some very amusing faces.
NESSIAH: For the record, I approve of your approval of safety. It'd be awfully annoying to try to fight with all these insufferable underlings while trying to compensate for Gulcasa becoming psychologically damaged for physically damaging me.
ARIESPRITE: I can't even begin to count the number of ways in which that train of logic is hopelessly twisted.
NESSIAH: Good, don't. We'd be here all day.
NESSIAH: Really, I don't think it would be very much fun to get hurt either, but Gulcasa would probably walk out of an encounter like that more traumatized than me.
NESSIAH: And I expect there to be all kinds of other uses for this stuff. You never know. The clouds don't show me EVERYTHING.
ARIESPRITE: No doubt.
ARIESPRITE: But how are you going to fit it all in your sylladex?
NESSIAH: I'll bushel it.
NESSIAH: I have a lot of cards, and you'd be surprised at how much a tree modus can hold if you balance it just right.
ARIESPRITE: ...A tree modus.
ARIESPRITE: I always did want to try that.
NESSIAH: *giggle*
NESSIAH: Our intuition was right on, you know. It's quite elegant, and it's always suited my needs quite well.
ARIESPRITE: I see.