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[princess_of_ida]

Three for the gleam of a jewel or a smile.



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[dead_tongue]

goddamn, I'm already getting deals, I'm going to be rolling in nice fabrics and shoes.

I would look cute with one!

[princess_of_ida]

If you're a good boy, maybe you'll get one for Resurrection Day.

[dead_tongue]

oh I'm the BEST boy and we all know it.

[princess_of_ida]

Heh. You are. I won't argue with that.

Have you decided what you're going to paint on my wall yet?

[dead_tongue]

yeah I think so, but I want your input. what's your favourite landscape? like are you an ocean girl, do you like the desert, what?

[princess_of_ida]

I'm from space. I don't really have a favorite landscape unless you count the stars with their nebulae. But I see that all the time.

But I do find myself interested in the sea lately. I've only seen it from very far away. Maybe that?

[dead_tongue]

well that doesn't mean you never saw pictures. and you've been here a while.

lucky for you I'm from the coast. the sea it is.

[princess_of_ida]

Pictures don't connect to feeling. At least not to me. Here it's just forest and village. Nothing particularly exciting there.

But the sea? There's power in it.

[dead_tongue]

there is. it's not infinite like space, but it has a similar sense of depth.

also seals. I guess you've never seen harbour seals but they're so cute.

[princess_of_ida]

Seals... Are those the big brown water-dog things that bark all the time?

[dead_tongue]

yeah. but harbour seals are more like sea puppies than dogs, they've got big black eyes and cute faces. I love em.

[princess_of_ida]

I'm having trouble imagining them. Try doing the mental picture thing.

[dead_tongue]

[Being a visual person helps - it's really not hard for him to summon an image.]

[princess_of_ida]

[Her first thought was that they looked tasty, but she kept that to herself. Then:]

Their eyes remind me of John's.

[dead_tongue]

omg yeah!

[Like he needed another thing to find adorable about John. Iggy is one smitten kitten,]

[princess_of_ida]

That was a weirdly enthusiastic agreement.

[Was Iggy banging her boss?]

[dead_tongue]

what? I'm just saying that you're right. it's cute.

[princess_of_ida]

I wouldn't call his eyes cute.

[Especially since she knew who's they really belonged to.]

Most people find his eyes creepy.

[dead_tongue]

well, most people are wrong.

I understand why. they're undeniably inhuman. but they're beautiful.

like your arm. creepy? I guess. but beautiful, too. it's a memento mori that can flip you off.

[princess_of_ida]

It wasn't as pretty until I made gold. You are one of three people here that have instantly seen beauty in my arm instead of creepiness or tragedy.

It's refreshing.

cw: dead kids

[dead_tongue]

yeah, well, I'm also kinda creepy myself I guess. when I was a little boy one of my playmates was a girl who fell off the jungle gym and broke her neck in the 1970s. her head never really sat right. but she was so beautiful and so sweet.

I dunno. I just really like you creepy fucks. you and John have been consistently kind to me while other 'normal' people have made snide comments or told me to go away. I know what I'm like, I know how people see me.

you take me seriously anyway.

[princess_of_ida]

[There was so much there that she couldn't bring herself to respond to, so she focused on the beginning.]

Was she your first ghost? That girl.

[dead_tongue]

oh gosh no. I can't even remember the first. Mom thinks it was her grandma.

[princess_of_ida]

Ah. I was just wondering why you picked her.

[dead_tongue]

because I loved her.