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[heartofthestar]

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[heartofthestar]

I do not think everyone has them, although many if not most do. But that does not mean everyone with them expresses them in the same way. Nor is hearing about them secondhand to be compared with experiencing them for yourself.

[purrsonality]

They don't?

[ she thought it was the same for everyone. how was it different? ]

[heartofthestar]

Did you not just say you've no intention of finding a partner?

[Are they having two different conversations here?]

[purrsonality]

I'm different. I'm a monster.

Monsters don't have partners. They don't feel that kind of thing.

[heartofthestar]

Ah, I see. You did say everyone had them, so I'd not known you excluded yourself.

[purrsonality]

Of course I did. That's how it is.

[heartofthestar]

And yet I fear I find it less than obvious. If in the future I should use the word 'everyone', pray understand it includes you as well.

['Let's get Maruki to make sushi for everyone' would be a horrible thing to misunderstand, for example.]

[purrsonality]

[ she shakes her head. ]

It's fine. It doesn't have to.

[heartofthestar]

I meant not that I intended it to specifically include you, but rather than it would not occur to me to not include you when using it. Not a promise, but rather an explanation, for when that should happen in the future.

[purrsonality]

[ hmm. ]

I guess you can if you really want to.

[heartofthestar]

Rather than 'really want to', it is simply that using it otherwise would not occur to me. A consequence of what we have discussed at other times. But pray, setting that aside, what brings you here?

[purrsonality]

Food. Akechi. Kotatsu. Stuff.

I'm allowed. They said so.

[heartofthestar]

I never doubted that you were. I'd insist were it otherwise.

[Akechi? That seems... unlikely. How those two interact, she can only imagine.]

And certainly good reasons. Particularly the food.

[purrsonality]

Maruki and I make sushi together.

[ since she knows how to do it now. ]

Are you here for food?

[heartofthestar]

Among other things. I dwell here now, with Maruki.

[Venat perpetually has a bright smile, of course. But in this moment it is particularly so.]

[purrsonality]

[ hmm. ]

You look really happy about that.

[heartofthestar]

I admit I am. This whole path of events is delightful, and entirely unexpected.

[purrsonality]

Because you've never been in love before?

[ maruki has. that much she knows, even if she doesn't know all the details. ]

[heartofthestar]

Nor did I ever expect to be, for a number of reasons. The notion that I would find such a partner is... well, very unlikely, if I may.

[purrsonality]

But you're a pretty girl.

Why would it be unlikely?

[heartofthestar]

Looks are hardly everything, my dear. And among my people, fine looks were the norm, not the exception.

[purrsonality]

Okay, but you're here.

People care about looks. It matters.

[heartofthestar]

And yet everyone here is attractive as well. So rather a moot point, when every possibility is equivalent.

[purrsonality]

I guess.

[ izutsumi's not attractive but saying that would be a whole lecture from venat. ]

Maruki probably doesn't even notice that.

[heartofthestar]

[It would be.]

I think he notices. It is not why he cares for me, but I believe he considers it a pleasant addition. I feel the same about him, after all.