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Who: Apartment O + you? door is open
When: Day 32, evening
Where: Apartment O
What: family dinner...?

[There is a stew bubbling happily over the fire; leaf "platters" and shish-kebabs(? something-chunks on sticks), salad, a somewhat overcooked stirfry, and a gourd filled with fruit chunks in milky liquid are arranged on the kitchen counter.]

Okay, guys, get it while it's hot!

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[less strident than she might otherwise be]

Life has everything to do with that. Sure, there're things beyond our control, and usually they aren't fun. But how we react to those things, and how we deal with everything else, that's all us, good or bad.

Then what about the people that make nothing but terrible choices and just skate by anyway?

What about them?

There aren't always consequences.

[slowly]

Not how you're expecting, no. How do people think of that guy? As smart and skilled? or just foolish and lucky? How do people react to them? Is it just as good to 'skate by' as to actually have a definitive success or failure?

I'm talking about the people who are successful.

Then they must have made some good decisions somewhere along the line, even if it's just not making enemies of the right people.

I suppose that depends on what you consider successful.

That's what I was saying. But it doesn't really matter, anyway.

Oh?

'Oh' what? It doesn't matter what happens to other people, does it? Just gotta take care of number one.

...mm. More or less.

That's surprisingly equivocal, from you.

Meaning what, exactly?

I expected more of an "of course" reaction.

[Blandly, and man he is going to hate everything ever when he's not zen-melon'd, but at the moment he doesn't really care about admitting this one way or the other, so:]

There are a few exceptions. That's all.

Really? Like what?

People I don't mind looking out for.

Huh...

What?

[shrugs] I only half expected that. ...The other half I just figured you didn't consider yourself as number one.

Why did you spend so much time thinking about it in the first place?

[Going to absently start collecting the plates of the folks who are finished and washing up. Water magic + chores= easier.]

[mildly]

I think about things a lot, you know.

It's not the kind of thing that needs thinking about.

Not for you.

Don't worry, I have better things to do than play armchair psychiatrist or whatever you're afraid of. [and a hair-ruffle goes here]