九 - jiǔ

[getsome_sleep]

At last, what was lost is recovered. A thousand pardons for my lengthy silence: it's a delicate system that we depend upon for our communication. I hope that nothing crucial had happened by writing.

Sumi-senseilăoshī, if I may ask an unusual question: is there any special kind of soap that you use for your hair? The Sphere's newest antics are

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[pompous_today]

I am glad to see your writing again, Huo. You misplaced your journal, I gather?

[getsome_sleep]

My thanks, Simon-yīshēng. In my defense, given that I was in the Wilderness at the time, it might be more correct to say that the world misplaced itself around my journal.

[pompous_today]

Quite a poetic way to put it.

[getsome_sleep]

A passing fancy. The unusual inspires unusual descriptions.

[dragonking]

It is quite a fragile means of communication.

[getsome_sleep]

[... that handwriting. Crap.]

Indeed, and so simple and humble in appearance, when in fact it is all but miraculous.

[dragonking]

[Aww, Huo.]

Miracles seem to be the Tree's specialty, though it is not always in our favor.

[getsome_sleep]

[He's avoiding you like the plague, okay.]

And so the marvelous becomes the everyday.

[lingeringlegacy]

Mou~ Huo-san no ba~ka Do you mean shampoo? For washing your hair, I mean.

[getsome_sleep]

If that is a specific kind of soap, then yes, that is what I mean. Although your hair is a rather unique case, Stellaris-gūniang.

[lingeringlegacy]

The colour, maybe. But what I use to wash it does not differ from most people's.

Is your hair troubled?

[getsome_sleep]

Strange as it is, the Tree appears to have developed some sort of personal vendetta against topknots.

[azhdarchidae]

It's a pain trying to carry these books around.

Maybe I should see about commissioning a bag...

[getsome_sleep]

You should not have any difficulty finding something adequate in the Bazaar.

[azhdarchidae]

If they didn't assume everyone here would be human-shaped, I wouldn't.

[getsome_sleep]

That is, indeed, a different case altogether. Do you differ from that norm very sharply?

[spandexisyouth]

It is good to see you returned!

[getsome_sleep]

My thanks - gui-Youth? Is that correct?

[spandexisyouth]

It is! Or was. I have my name now, it is Gai, but you can use Youth still if you would like!

[getsome_sleep]

Gai, then. My congratulations on your discovery.