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[oi_theoi]

Who: Anyone!
When: Day 41, Noon
Where: Common Room
What: Mingle!

[In the common room, there are large stacks of colored paper on a simple wood table, a bowl filled with all different types of writing tools, and a small sign.]

What do you desire?

[Feel free to draw or write or mingle. Kain may be around.]

Comments

[overclocking]

[Well if things weren't good last time, that's still not good]

... I see.

[madasahero]

[Don't give me that look. '-']

...May I ask about that.

[Points at the piece of paper.]

[overclocking]

[Glances back at it]

Ah...

It's a bit of a complicated sentiment.

[madasahero]

I'm used to those.

[overclocking]

[He's quiet for a while, like he's deciding how much he should really say]

... Say, hypothetically, you have someone who long ago forfeited their right to make demands. Saying that you desire "nothing" would still be a desire, wouldn't it? So really the only answer is no answer at all.

[madasahero]

That's true, though one can still desire something without making demands.

[overclocking]

Unfortunately.

[madasahero]

[Politely]

The question was not about demands.

[overclocking]

... Mm. Maybe.

Did you fill one out?

[madasahero]

[You are cheating. :X]

Hm... Somewhat.

[overclocking]

"Somewhat"?

[madasahero]

[Wry smile]

It's a bit of a complicated sentiment.

[Offers him a white piece of paper]

[overclocking]

[Taking it wordlessly]

[madasahero]

[The word is written very neatly in an alphabet you shouldn't know, but Thusia is magical like that:

A Kingdom of Afternoon Naps]

[overclocking]

[....]

I see.

[madasahero]

[Just stares at the piece of paper silently]

[overclocking]

[An interesting reaction. He hands it back carefully]

More than just the desire for some nice rest, I take it.

[madasahero]

[Folds it carefully]

You could say so.

[overclocking]

... What does it mean? Really mean.

[madasahero]

A friend's impossible dream.

[overclocking]

... Ah. That kind.

[madasahero]

They are the worst.

[overclocking]

Mm... Though maybe that's why they're dreams.

[madasahero]

[I'm going to stare at a random spot over your shoulder and pretend I'm not having feelings.]

[overclocking]

[It's not working.]

But I think I understand what you mean a bit more... About the difference between desires and demands.