without fanfare; action&voice

[mongoosegrin]

[GOOD MORNING. guess who's got feet enough to move again! and it only took, what. a week? good times. though Alex hasn't gotten to prowling yet; he's on the angled roof of the Gilded Castle, the story he'd been holed up in; his feet are dangling in Edel's window as he lounges, trying to...egh...enjoy this too-close sunshine

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[henamedmechii]

[Hello. Chii is forever oblivious to everything. She just has one question.]

What is immortal?

[mongoosegrin]

[a slight pause for surprise's sake. but his voice is mild, amused:]

It means to never die.

[henamedmechii]

Chii...?

What is...to die?

[mongoosegrin]

[...well then.]

Do you know what it is to live?

[henamedmechii]

Chii...

[Her delicate little brow furrows, a small frown on her lips.]

To live...? To be alive...?

Chii knows...that Chii is not alive...

[mongoosegrin]

Ha?

I have never known the dead to talk.

[henamedmechii]

Chii...?

Chii is not dead...! Chii...does not think Chii is dead...

Chii does not know what it is, to be dead...!

[mongoosegrin]

[a drawn-out sound. maaaaaan. weirder and weirder...]

But not alive, either, you say?

[henamedmechii]

No...

Chii is a persocom...Chii is not alive...

[mongoosegrin]

And Chii will have to explain what it is to be a...pers-o-com, yes? I do not know of this.

[henamedmechii]

Chii...

[Yea, she's had to do that a lot recently...]

Persocoms are different than people...they can do things that people cannot, but there also things that they cannot do...things that they cannot do that people can do...

But Persocoms are not alive like people are...

[mongoosegrin]

[he ponders this a moment...then chuckles.]

The way you say it, it must be that I am not alive like people are, either.

[henamedmechii]

Chii?

You are also a persocom...?

[mongoosegrin]

No. But certainly no human being.

[henamedmechii]

Chii...?

You are not a human...but you are not a persocom either...?

[mongoosegrin]

Darkovs are different, yes. Alive, and different.