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[cautionarytale]

So apparently I'm supposed to like, talk to people.

Anybody wanna talk?

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[vampish_aleera]

Then I deny you this fun!

[cautionarystory.livejournal.com]

Come stop me, then.

[vampish_aleera]

I already have...

[cautionarystory.livejournal.com]

That's funny, I feel like I'm still doing it.

[vampish_aleera]

No.

Instead, I shall ask what your most treasured memory of this place is. So that I might better understand you.

[cautionarystory.livejournal.com]

And I'll just blurt out the answer to any question you ask, 'cause that sounds like a nifty idea.

[vampish_aleera]

The answer to this riddle is a secret?

You must be perpetually in fright for the world to discover such things from you...

[cautionarystory.livejournal.com]

Fright. Not telling everyone who comes along anything they want to know about you. Those're two different things.

[vampish_aleera]

You must do very little talking, lady. No wonder he has tasked you with this mission.

[cautionarystory.livejournal.com]

He tasked me with this "mission" 'cause he's got nothing better to do.

[vampish_aleera]

Or because you have yet to value friendships.

[cautionarystory.livejournal.com]

Pretty sure it's the nothing-better-to-do one.

[vampish_aleera]

No. He is not given to laziness. He is of working peasant stock.

And is... Driven by religious needs.

[cautionarystory.livejournal.com]

Yeah, tell me about it. But seriously? Pretty sure this is busy work.

[vampish_aleera]

Why? Because this is how you would act?

[cautionarystory.livejournal.com]

Because there's no point.

[vampish_aleera]

He is not one to be given to such notions. I think there is purpose in what he has asked.

If only to keep you amiss from troubles...

[cautionarystory.livejournal.com]

Maybe there is. I dunno what it is, you don't know what it is, so it's just... busy work.

[vampish_aleera]

Then what can I do to make this time pass easier? You never did respond to my earlier offer.

[cautionarystory.livejournal.com]

What, getting bitten? I think I'll pass on that one.

[vampish_aleera]

Before my time as inmate was over, I sought to make amends with you. I ask... What thing can I do for you? How can Aleera show her heart is true?

You thought upon it, but no more was spoken.

[cautionarystory.livejournal.com]

Look, I'm not here to make friends, I'm just having conversations 'cause that's what Big Brother wants in return for me maybe possibly getting to leave this hellhole someday.

[vampish_aleera]

You are strange girl... Forever shaping others, as if they are clay, only to refuse debts volunteered.

[cautionarystory.livejournal.com]

If I decide you owe me something, you won't be paying me back with nice words.

[vampish_aleera]

Of course.