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[o8liter8]

[ Mindfang looks kind of...frazzled when she turns the feed on. Her hair's rumpled like she's slept for a month (well, okay, she did), and she has a few fancy hats piled on her head. One of the hats tumbles down as she swings the camera around, and lands in a humongous pile of bee plushes just as she turns the camera to it. ]

Okay, just whose idea of a joke was this? It's not even funny, it's just weird and pointless!

[ She might also be a little freaked out that someone managed to sneak in and do all that while she was asleep...Mindfang is used to having very good reflexes. ]

And who put the damn robot in here, anyway?

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[aim_exorable]

I have, I just-

[NNNNNNNNEH]

Please stop that! You know it's disgusting because I've hounded after you a dozen times by now that kind of chewing.

[o8liter8]

[ CHEW, CHEW, CHEW. ]

Problem, Executor?

[aim_exorable]

For one thing, that chewing is obnoxious and aggravating. Please stop.

[He'd slink down into his chair if he could for this next part, but as it is, he just buries his nose in the book as his voice drops a little lower.]

Secondly, I am no longer an Executor. Nor Expatriot.

[o8liter8]

[ CHEWS DEFIANTLY!!! ]

You sure as hell were determined to be an Executor, weren't you.

[ this will never stop being a sore spot with her, will it. ]

[aim_exorable]

[Eye twitch. Good thing it's hidden behind his glasses.]

I just wanted to be able to support the two of us. I was trying to do the best I could with what I knew. I know I've made mistakes, but I cannot let myself be trapped by the past. I've been taught that, now.

If I want to support those I care for, then that is what I need to do.

You fall under that spectrum, you know.

[o8liter8]

Right, of course, because nothing about that could go wrong. Because you sure as hell cared enough to want to keep me around.

[aim_exorable]

...There were Archeradicator barracks for trainees in the city.

[o8liter8]

So what.

[aim_exorable]

Most of the others stayed there. It saved time; we had to start early and train nearly into the day sometimes. If you traveled there- especially from out of the city- you had to take more time to wake up early, risk going out into the sun.

It would have been easier to stay there. If I did, however, you would have been alone.

[o8liter8]

Can't leave your little project alone, can you? I was so very uncivilized, it was your sacred duty to tame me or some shit like that.

[aim_exorable]

[An almost visible eyeroll.]

Allow me to rephrase that, then, since you are so determined to see the worst in all I say: I didn't want you to be lonely.

[o8liter8]

I don't get lonely.

[ lying through her teeth. ]

[aim_exorable]

Inansa... I think it is a bit late for saying such things.

[You kinda screwed up the chance to lie when you smacked him in the face, along with everything you blurted out.]

[o8liter8]

I'm fine.

[aim_exorable]

You slapped me.

[o8liter8]

You say that like it's something unusual.

[aim_exorable]

[Deadpan stare over the top of his glasses.]

[o8liter8]

What?

[aim_exorable]

That was different and you know it.

[o8liter8]

Whatever! Believe that if you want.

[ grumble grumble chew chew ]

[aim_exorable]

[Ugh. He needs painkillers now, but right now all he can do is rub at his temples.]

Most people would not get upset at receiving free food, Inansa. At least not unless they suspected it was poisoned.

[o8liter8]

Don't want your concern. It'll just come back to bite me in the ass.

[aim_exorable]

How?

[o8liter8]

[ Shuts up and picks at her food. ]

[aim_exorable]

[Fine he will just go back to his book!]

Exactly.