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[everythinglost]

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Re: after pairings are announced

[transfundere]

Was there some means of transference or-

I can't even imagine how that would work. [ A sigh. ]

Almost died?

Re: after pairings are announced

[everythinglost]

I can't say I got passing marks in biology, and that was on Earth. There's someone out there who has some idea about how this stuff works, but it's definitely not me.

Have you ever been chased by a tiger? Not for those without a second set of trousers. Luckily, she hated humans too much to learn what 'warning: electricity' means. A moral about prejudice. Though in case you get the wrong impression, it's important to be clear that I had no idea about that at the time. On her death bed my old mum admitted that she'd dropped me on my head quite a bit as a child, and evidence continues to mount up.

Re: after pairings are announced

[transfundere]

[ There is a lot there. Quite a lot. He'll focus on the tiger; that seems safest. ]

So did you fall into a tiger pit? Are those electrified in that time?

Re: after pairings are announced

[everythinglost]

No, I ran into a power station. Ladders, you know. I wish there had been a tiger pit.

Re: after pairings are announced

[transfundere]

For the tiger to be in?

For her to fall into and perhaps be distracted by another tiger?

Re: after pairings are announced

[everythinglost]

Exactly, now you're getting it.

Re: after pairings are announced

[transfundere]

And it only took about fifteen minutes. How encouraging.

Re: after pairings are announced

[everythinglost]

Sometimes it takes hours. [Despite going for sarcasm, there's still a trace of something that might be nostalgia. He's spent a lot of good hours talking in circles around nothing.]

Re: after pairings are announced

[transfundere]

I have no doubt. I applaud your stamina.

Re: after pairings are announced

[everythinglost]

Amazing, you sound like all my girlfriends. Yet without the frisson of attraction.

Re: after pairings are announced

[transfundere]

All of them, truly?

Re: after pairings are announced

[everythinglost]

Hey, there's a reason I've had multiple girlfriends. I'd say that's the first one. Possibly the first five.

Re: after pairings are announced

[transfundere]

And is there some reason why the opinion changes as you continue on?

Re: after pairings are announced

[everythinglost]

My charming personality can be too much for some people.

Re: after pairings are announced

[transfundere]

I can't even imagine.

Re: after pairings are announced

[everythinglost]

I know, right?

Still, stranger things at sea. As they say. I assume because of the krakens and so on.

Re: after pairings are announced

[transfundere]

Multiple krakens?

I was under the impression there was only one.

Re: after pairings are announced

[everythinglost]

How would that work, biologically? I mean, I don't know a lot about science but I have heard rumors about reproduction.

Anyway, I try to avoid the sea. Got enough strange things happening already.

Re: after pairings are announced

[transfundere]

I admit that I've never done much beyond cross the channel, and certainly no true sea-faring voyages.

Re: after pairings are announced

[everythinglost]

That's what I call sensible.

Went to France, did you?

Re: after pairings are announced

[transfundere]

Yes, for my internship, and then for the war.

Re: after pairings are announced

[everythinglost]

Ah, yes. The Big One.

My dad fought in that one.

Re: after pairings are announced

[transfundere]

...yes. I-

I can imagine nothing more... encompassing than that which I have seen.

Re: after pairings are announced

[everythinglost]

Did they tell you there was another one?

[Perhaps not the most sensitive phrasing, but it's spoken with empathy instead of the sarcasm he's been sticking to so far.]

Re: after pairings are announced

[transfundere]

Yes, I've been told.

[ Matter-of-fact. The sort of matter of fact that is clearly pointedly removed from emotion for a reason, though there's no bite or snap to his words. That reason isn't Fitz. ]

That is... as I said, I cannot imagine it. Nor, I admit, do I want to.

[ He'll see it. He knows that now: he will live to see it and probably live through it and beyond. His life is stretching out so far...

He doesn't know how to handle that yet. ]