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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

[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.

[madasahero]

[Perking up a little, genuinely interested.]

Oh?

[overclocking]

[You can't demand what you know is impossible. He doesn't say so, though, just shaking his head]

Just an idle thought, that's all.

Though I have to wonder why this god wants to know.

[madasahero]

He probably wishes to know what drives us. Carrot and stick.

[overclocking]

[That earns a sharp edge in his voice]

Always an effective tactic.

[madasahero]

[Observing his reaction, and giving a wry, sympathetic smile]

Probably, though Roland was more about sticks and sticks.

[overclocking]

Roland... your homeworld?

[madasahero]

[Real smile, yays.]

Yes. We are more like carrots and carrots now, with the occasional stick, of course.

[overclocking]

[For once]

You speak of it very fondly.

[madasahero]

Well, they are good people.

[And now I'm sad again because I miss them. :(]

[overclocking]

[Nodding slowly]

Places like that are very rare.

[madasahero]

[Which brings us back to A Kingdom of Afternoon Naps.]

They are.

[overclocking]

[Simply]

I'm sorry.

[madasahero]

It will survive without me. There are others.

[Trying to look on the bright side. '-']

[overclocking]

I was talking about your loss, not theirs. But I'm certain that it will, yes.

[madasahero]

[My losses are irrelevant. :( ]

That is what really matters.