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[standingonmyneck]

Type: Text

Sender ID: standingonmyneck

Subject: love is real

Warnings: true love incoming (claws and companions quest related)



(Everyone just sees this video on the network.)

real love exists

Comments

sender id: netherese | text

[netherese]

It's nice that they have someone, isn't it?

[standingonmyneck]

Truly moved to tears.

[netherese]

I'm amazed they stayed still long enough for you to capture this.

[standingonmyneck]

I've been down here a while with Bramblesong. Maybe I've lost my mind.

sender: everblooms / video

[everblooms]

[ A calico cat is clawing furiously at the device, face sniffing the screen with a level of indignation, as if to question the rats' insistence on escaping capture today. How dare they! Someone isn't a fan of real love, it seems. ]

» text | un: tilfrosset

[tilfrosset]

[Jill is now a believer that the video function on these shellphones was the worst invention. No one ever had to witness these shenanigans with parchment and quill.]

Perhaps you should give them some privacy.

text | yuezun

[yuezun]

Is it not usually frowned on and considered embarrassing to the one watching to remain and watch others being intimate when you walk in on them?

[He had recently (read: before coming to this world) used his limited understanding of that particular social expectation to chase Shangque out of his chambers while being in Orchid's body by challenging the black dragon to stay and watch 'her' make out with 'the moon supreme'.]

[standingonmyneck]

Hey Aerith, ding ding. Your cat is either going to end true love or your phone.

[standingonmyneck]

[technology hater]

What if I was here first? I was just minding my own business when nature called.

[standingonmyneck]

Dongfang, I hope no one ever introduces you to television or the internet.

[tilfrosset]

I do believe you are in their territory, therefore it is on you to avert your eyes.

And everybody else's eyes.

[Really, did this lady think all and sundry wanted to see this?]

[yuezun]

[The words she used didn't translate directly as neither existed in his world. Thus:]

Who is Television and The Internet? What do they have to do with watching others being intimate?

[Wait. He did know of a type of person and a place where that might occur.]

Is Television the proprietor of a brothel-ship called The Internet? Are you sending this from a sea-faring brothel?

[standingonmyneck]

[Daria didn’t really care about what other people thought. But this was the one time she got bored enough to post something stupid and getting lectured about it just kinda felt silly.]

It’s literally just two rats touching noses. It’s not that serious.

[standingonmyneck]

[Yeah chief that was a lot of something that Wasn’t It.]

Not exactly. Let’s just say if you think two rats touching noses is cause for alarm, wait until you learn people make a living actually documenting mating rituals (baby making) for money.

[yuezun]

This venerable one is not surprised to learn that.

[brothels did exist and he understood their purpose. even if he had never actually partaken in anything that went on in them, he still understood what they were for. However:]

This venerable one did not gain the impression you would be one of them. Are you advertising their services?

[Still not understanding that the rats aren't like, actual people who are also rats.]

[everblooms]

[ Daria has now interrupted Lilyliver's hunting. His eyes go wide, and his body still before he slaps the screen, hard and knocks the phone right over. Daria's always right.

Over the clamor comes a familiar voice: ] Oh, very funny, Lily. And were there mice in the phone, hm? [ The interior of her cabin, sparse as it is, has a few flowers left out, sitting and waiting to be potted, or perhaps pressed... and the device gets picked up, so Daria gets an eyeful of the florist herself. ]

What's this? Oh, no. It's a Magic 8 Ball. [ She's teasing. ]

[tilfrosset]

[Some people are just a little more prim and proper than others. Jill, unfortunately for others, is one of them. Blame those good ol' medieval times.]

They seem more than ready to... be intimate. Seriously so.

[Founder be good, did she just really write that in regards to two rodents?]

I suppose you aren't willing to interrupt them so they don't produce more offspring for the cats to deal with?

[standingonmyneck]

Trust me, Bramblesong has made quick work of things. I’m not here to actually make problems, believe it or not.

Besides, I’m not paid to actually document nature at work. That takes a heftier pay for an even nastier job.

[standingonmyneck]

I’m going to need you to clarify what you mean by “one of them”. Because if you mean what I actually think you mean then I’m going to have to stop you there and remind you:

They are rats. I am not.

[standingonmyneck]

Yeah, shake me and I’ll tell you the worst fortunes you ever heard. I dare you.

[She did get a look at her place. Of course she had this cottage girl thing going. It seemed to fit her.]

Nice flowers.

[yuezun]

Someone who makes a living documenting sex. This venerable one is aware you are a mortal

[everblooms]

[ Yeah, yeah she'll play along. ] Ooh, sounds fun. [ With a hum, she considers... ]

Am I gonna get my own flower cart again soon?

[ Since Daria mentioned the flowers. ]

[standingonmyneck]

Well. I have to explain to you that I, in fact, am not doing that.

[standingonmyneck]

Pay me a thousand doubloons for the answer.

[YOU WANNA PLAY THIS SHE’LL RIDE IT HOME.]

[everblooms]

Sure, if I can sell that many flowers. You said they're nice, right? I'll charge three a pop!