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[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.

[purrsonality]

I don't need to know the details.

But good. For both of you.

[heartofthestar]

[Venat resists the urge to laugh, but not to smile. Poor Izutsumi -- at times she must surely feel like a square peg aimed for a round hole. Venat is glad, and not surprised, that she finds some comfort here.]

Thank you. Not only for the sentiment, but for your friendship to myself and those here as well.