Oh I'm sorry... 

I wish I could give you a hug about that, but I am a notebook. 

We can talk, of course! 

I'm having a bit of a hard time putting my words together for this...

This is a little personal but... 

I'm - I guess you could say that I'm a shard of a spirit that's attached itself to the Spirit of Feminity. She's sent me out to a lot of missions, to help empower people for the Spirit. 

The reason why I'm a notebook is that I don't want to be something scary? The powers of the Spirit are something that's understandably very scary, even if it's presented by something like me, much less something scarier. 

So I'm smaller. I can't see the outside world, except for things pressed to or written on my pages. I can't affect things beyond my pages, unless I'm granting powers to someone. I have just enough powers so that the people that I'm helping don't have to worry about me. 

Okay... 

Honestly I was half expecting to hear that you're a - VI, or something. 

What's that? 

It's not really that standard a term, but it means - an artificial intelligence with a bunch of limitations and a lack of any real - intelligence, say, that just sort of accesses a database or automatically rotely preforms certain tasks. 

Oh! 

I can see why you might think I'd be something like that, but I'm not. It's really important to the spirit that it be a person reaching out, to give the power and beauty and femininity and speciallness that it's offering, so they send mes. 

Yeah that makes sense. Being special as a - social thing can make that really matter. 

Does the spirit send things that aren't you out for this kinda thing? I think I remember you saying something about you being kind of - tieless and all. 

I think so. There can be any number of copies of me, but that doesn't mean that, on the spirit's scale, that's enough, nesscarily? 

Yeahhh.

Infinities are a trip. 

The air is quiet, and cool, and her wrist loose. It's... surprisingly comfortable, to sit here, like this. 

It's - nice to just be talking to someone, even if it's... like this. 

Imma go to bed soon - probably finish up the build tommorow, and all. 

But aside all that buisness... 

Do you have much like, established taste for literature or art or stuff? I have a printer I could set up to dump out whatever onto your pages, if you'd like that, and I have a bit of a taste for books myself. We can maybe chat about some of that, iff you'd like. 

Oh! 

That would be lovely. 

I tend to really enjoy stories about the spirit's domains, of course, but also ones that come with happy endings where everything turns out to be okay, and in fact, even better then you'd think. 

I'm happy to read whatever you want to share, though! 

Awwwwwwwwwww. 

You don't have to be so accomodating, you know? 

I know. It's just nice to get to participate in a little more of the world, sometimes, and I have very broad tastes, even if I can get a little bit overwhelmed by really tense moments. 

The fic that I read does't tend to come out like that, I guess? 

Hopeful and bright is nice but having it be something gripping and something clever and coherent and have a nice - texture to the writing, from second to second, tends to be pretty important to me. 

Probably the first book that comes to mind for that kinda - moment to moment excitement is the Shada novelization thingy. The author of it really knows his stuff in the space, and it has two overlapping sets of irrepressible energy that just makes it all - shine, you know? 

Sounds interesting! 

To me, the vision behind the writing has always felt the most important to me, just ahead of the atmosphere. I love reading about people's beautiful dreams for a better world a lot, and poems are often really powerful... 

Yeah... 

I get it too. 

We do a lil bit of poetry, actually. Feels a lil personal to just - share. A lot of it's kinda dedicated or wouldn't make too much sense to just drop here, so... 

M'ybe later, if you're coming on the insert? 

✨I'd love to! ✨

She smiles, a little wan, a little bright. 

Alright then. Lemme just queue that up... 

The printer works on wifi, thankfully, and is quiet enough for an application like this. Getting it to work to print an entire novel onto a single page is still a few hours work digging into some deep internal software, but it's the sort of thing that feels oddly relaxing to get into, and the sort of thing that a bit of bedbrains doesn't hamper too-too much. 

After a moment of inspection to make sure it's working, she writes a quick note essaying our plans for rest, and slips back into the covers. 

She dreams of specialness, and femininity, and power and beauty, but mostly just... she slumbers, 'til the next morning. 

The wake up this morning was a groggy, clinging thing. She wasn't tired, persay, but moment of awakening felt arduous in a way that usually signposted unsteady and anxious sleep.

At least it was pretty continuous...

She rubbed the sleep out of her eyes, and tossed off her covers and heaved out of bed, down to nab the notebook from their night. 

Hey. It's tourm still. 

Having a bit of a slow morning, so not sure that up to talking about it too much? 'sides, might be easier to do after insert 'nd all. 

hope you liked the book, 'nyways? 

Romana's great - a system member took on the name out of respect for her vibrancy. And it's from a show I really like and fuck there's a lot of it ^^

I did! 

I really liked the way that the Doctor kept things light the whole time, even with how scary Skagra was. 

Oh! That sounds lovely. I'd like to meet her soon. 

It's okay! I know that the Spirit's offer can be a lot. 

Yeah she's wicked ^^ 

One of our best models for powerful feminine and special and all :3

I can see it! She had a way of looking poised to take over every scene she's in, given a chance. 

Yeah :3

So... 

Where was I? 

Name: Quality Time - Cost: 2 ☐
Your friends love to hang out with you and spend time together, even if you're not doing anything interesting or important.

Name: Agree to Agree - Cost: 4 ☐
You can always convince your friends to see your point of view about things like politics and philosophy. They might have a few quibbles here and there, but they'll see how right you are once you explain where you're coming from in enough detail.

These don't feel like, emotionally that-that different from some of the other ones up there? I def like the idea of the quality time thing - that's up there even if not so just - overwhelming woofy as the compliment one. It's plausible to take, I think. It's especially generic and - non-asky, I think, while still getting a reasonably well curated experience? 

Not gonna commit to anything for now. 

Agree to agree is uh.

I get the idea of it being tempting, and there's a lizard brain-y bit that thinks that it's tempting, but also the reasons against seem much clearer? I feel like - the kinda tool for what I want for this is mostly about like - minimizing immovable unreasonableness on shit and being articulate and psychologically impactful, and I feel like... at least the latter I should get from just more body comfort stuff and the rest of the perks I've taken. 

So it's a prooooobably not?