2nd Bite

[redthenightless]

[Phone]

[Just one, short, terse question:]

What's so great about love anyway?

[Action; Elementary School]

[There is a little girl in a floofy pink dress picking at her lunch and looking generally discontent. Approach?]

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[Phone] BUT ONE MORE THING

[there_were_none]

It's a happy thing, Remi! Happy and warm and light and nice things, all at once.

[Phone]

[redthenightless]

Ah, Flan... I don't mean like, love like you love me or Sakuya or Meiling or Patchy... I meant the romantic kind of love specifically.

[Phone]

[there_were_none]

[A chirp.]

What's the difference?

[Phone]

[redthenightless]

Well... the romantic kind is where you just love a single person, and they make you feel all warm and special and because of that you end up acting silly and doing things just to attract them and please them and it's really just all a big mess.

[Somewhere along the line, that went from an actual explanation to a rant]

[ phone ]

[dutying]

Some people apparently think it's enough to risk the fate of the world over, so it must be some pretty special thing.

[ It sounds slightly sarcastic, but at the same time there's almost something slightly amused about her tone. ]

[ phone ]

[redthenightless]

See, that's exactly why it's so ridiculous!

[ phone ]

[dutying]

And did anything in particular trigger all of this so it was enough for you to ask everyone about it?

[ phone ]

[redthenightless]

...you could say that.

Phone

[adropofjupiter]

[Here the witch decides to quote a passage she found in a book recently.]

"Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. "

Phone

[redthenightless]

[You. The enemy.]

And what author did you steal that from, Thief?

Phone

[adropofjupiter]

Quoting something isn't stealing. And it's from this book I found in the house here called the Bible.

Best fiction I've found here.

Phone

[redthenightless]

Mocking religious texts too? Not that I care.

In any case, that book is hardly a guide to romance.

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[decadenzas]

[oh hey, he recognises this particular floofy pink dress-wearing girl and does indeed approach.]

In a sour mood, are we?

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[redthenightless]

Hello again, Charles.

A little, yes.

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[decadenzas]

[a slight nod of greeting] Whatever for? God knows this place offers an endless parade of idiots and foul circumstances to destroy one's mood.

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[redthenightless]

I'm used to others being idiots. It bothers me when my own are.

action,

[pasodoble]

( ( Spain is on cafeteria duty today. He's watching the children and making sure they don't start any trouble. ) )

Not hungry?

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[redthenightless]

Not particularly.

[The look she gives him adds, "And what business of yours is it if I am or not?"]

[pasodoble]

Ah, that's no good. Is it the food? ( ( Looking over to see if it's one of the school lunches. Also, forever oblivious to what that look means. ) ) I don't like the food here very much either.

[redthenightless]

Neither do I, but that has little to do with it.