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through-the-free-fall

"Are you?"

from_scratch

"I'm getting better."

through-the-free-fall

"I noticed. I'm really glad."

from_scratch

"Your mother was very kind about it."

through-the-free-fall

" - didn't want to recommend that lest it seem too much like orchestrating it but - yeah. She is. ...I did not get any people skills from my father."

from_scratch

"You could have constructed them out of twine, I didn't know."

through-the-free-fall

"Twine's the wrong metaphor, something that buckles under pressure...I warned him."

from_scratch

"He seemed concerned. I'm not sure I gave the fairest perspective though."

through-the-free-fall

"If I wanted to inspire fair perspective-giving I could have organized my priorities differently. I am sorry it inconvenienced you; we made the knowing decision to not take time off, no one else noticed, you are in a sense the only person wronged."

from_scratch

"I was startled, not so much wronged."

through-the-free-fall

"Well. I apologize for being startling and am glad that this did not thwart my pre-industrial teenage human wizard alt from winning you over."

from_scratch

...is Cam slightly pink?

through-the-free-fall

"...awwwww, what'd he do -"

from_scratch

"Claimed that he could monologue for an hour about things he is grateful to me for. I was skeptical. ...He was mistaken but only by a factor of two."

through-the-free-fall

"That's adorable. ...he probably didn't have time to read everything, I'm sure he could get to an hour off only existing material once he's had time to get acquainted with all of it."

from_scratch

Snort.

through-the-free-fall

Awwwwwww. "Since you and Miranda don't look anything alike I'm going to start checking if lots of random 1802 people are alts. It'll be awkward if they are, because from what Timothy says they won't get along with their Elf versions at all, but it'd be good to have a base rate."

from_scratch

"I like my 1802 alt just fine."

through-the-free-fall

"I'm very impressed with mine. Maybe everyone in wizarding Britain is really all right and has been secretly pretending to be terrible, that'd be entertaining."

from_scratch

"The mother of all common knowledge problems!"

through-the-free-fall

"Timothy'd have noticed. But maybe they're all in France or something, I take it there are happenings in France."

Minor Finis Way

Curufinwë Atarinkë (Curufin)

"Everyone in France is terrible."

sonoffeanor

"When you say things like that what you communicate to people outside the family is that you're dismissing them on that basis, instead of having assessed them for competence and decency and found every single one individually wanting."

through-the-free-fall