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Annie is sitting with Ice and Phix in the Belfry. (Phix has determined that neither she nor Max knows near enough about runecasting to hope to approach Aya's little problem in the next, like, year at least, but she's taking notes to deliver to Iobel, who has not yet abandoned so much hope yet cannot be at this meeting for queen reasons.)
"If you could just say more about the subjectivity of it, it might give me an idea of something new to ask the alethiometer," says Ice. "Obviously having it look directly at Aya is an option, if it just can't get enough information off the necklace, but ideally we'd exhaust the possibilities first."
"Or Prime would just give her what she wants," mutters Phix.
"Let's not be weird and pressure-y about that," says Ice. "Annie?"
"...Sorry," says Annie. "I just had a mental image of Aya holding a soul bird and the soul bird looking at Prime and wanting to be petted and him refusing to do it. I think I would sooner let the alethiometer look at me than give her another - thing to pine about. I should work just as well, shouldn't I?"
"You might," says Ice, "unless reciprocated necklace arrangements look different or are different forms of breakable than one-sided ones, in which case you might not."
"Poor hypothetical soul-bird," murmurs Phix, scribbling.
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castmyown
"... Good point. Hey, Cypress, can you hire a therapist who's allowed to know all of this stuff?"
prodigal_miser
"Uh. Maybe? But they'd almost certainly be thrown for a loop by the lack of daemons."
dark_light
"Reading daemon behavior is a huge part of therapy on Chamomile," confirms Ice.
keep_busy
"I wonder how many summons it would take to find a therapist daeva or something."
prodigal_miser
"A lot, I'd bet. Possibly not worth the trouble. And I genuinely doubt that any members of the colony are therapists. They'd be used to not working with daemons, even if they have them now. I could always ask, I suppose."
dark_light
"Would the colonials be too - Kystley for Prime to have good rapport with them, though?"
dark_light
"You'd know better than we would, so that's probably going to add up to 'no clue'. Anyway, therapy takes ages to work. We would still be into the period where it was time to deploy drastic solutions for Spring."
keep_busy
"Which does not lead to the same tragic mental images, I don't think Spring would harbor a particularly desperate desire to hold his soul bird, but do you think that would work faster?"
prodigal_miser
"... Vernaia is really helpful. In general. Especially for - head stuff and emotional stability. I think it's a good idea for him to have one regardless, damn the downsides to having one, but especially for something like this."
"Aww," says Vernaia, and she nuzzles him. "Thanks."
"Anytime."
"Aww," says Vernaia, and she nuzzles him. "Thanks."
"Anytime."
shesepankh
"It's not like you guys are only giving out tickets to Alethia on a limited basis, hundredth person to walk through the Belfry gets one, etcetera, he'd have one already if the idea appealed."
prodigal_miser
"I - it's sort of frustrating that none of my alts believe me that it's worth it."
castmyown
"Um. Sorry? I mean, I believe that you think it's worth it, but I'm not - hopping aboard that train."
keep_busy
"I'm tempted? I'll do it if we get desperate about Spring, anyway, and think the alethiometer could come up with something if it looked at me. But this isn't because I think it would be a good Therapy Animal, I just know that Aldaras would be happy to snuggle it and I don't expect it to interfere all that much with my daily life."
prodigal_miser
Cypress is kind enough to not voice his opinion of this sentiment out loud.
prodigal_miser
"It's fine," he sighs.
"... Cypress is easily the most emotionally stable of all of the Adarins," says Vernaia. "Just saying."
He pets her.
"... Cypress is easily the most emotionally stable of all of the Adarins," says Vernaia. "Just saying."
He pets her.
castmyown
"I feel pretty emotionally stable? I mean, the dragon thing's still sort of distressing, But that's understandable. I'm not going to throw up walls of sarcasm or be a huge grump or act at all like Prime because of it, it just sucks. Um. I don't know, is there an - emotional stability test?"