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[hexappeal]

Hello there, young padawans. [Her voice is flat, almost to the point of disinterest.] I've been skulking about for a few days and I'll cut straight to the point: I'm pretty sure that I'm ready to leave now. [More emotion starts to present itself; frustration with the slightest trace of anger.] I get the whole "stuck" thing, but that's always such crap. Someone's usually behind that and they'll usually fold if approached the right way -- which in my case may very well be with a fist.

[She lets a little huff of air out, almost a laugh.] But I'm getting ahead of myself. So, how about this! I'll even be a good sport about it (if you could see me, I am smiling and not going to press any sort of interdimensional charges on you, I promise). I'm a busy woman with a cat to feed and a teenage cousin to roll my eyes at back home. Send me to my San Francisco and I'll forget this ever happened.

Comments

[hexappeal]

I don't imagine I'll be needing to write one anytime soon, but that's good to know.

I'm afraid I have no intention of scribbling down my work history like... oh, ever.

[hung_garian]

Lemme guess, it'd get you arrested? Mine would, anyway. But hey, it'd make for interesting memoirs... at least so long as they were published posthumously.

[hexappeal]

Some of it might, but I wouldn't call that "work" so much as "self-servicing hobbies," in that case.

That's why you publish the boring details while you're alive and spend several weeks at the top, like I did.

[hung_garian]

What if there are no boring details?

[hexappeal]

Then I'm going to call bullshit on you being Loki as in the. If you can't lie your way to the New York Times' bestseller list, then who can?

[hung_garian]

Okay, you know so much about me, tell me why Loki would want to make up boring details. I'm the god of mischief, not the god of tax evasion.

[hexappeal]

Because you're an asshole.

[hung_garian]

Point.

[hexappeal]

See? I told you.

[hung_garian]

And I'm duly impressed.

[hexappeal]

I know. I tend to do that to people.

[hung_garian]

Oh, I bet you do.

[hexappeal]

You're laying it on awfully thick for only ever having spoken to me. I know my voice is something of melodic beauty, but you never know what's on the other end...

[hung_garian]

That's okay. Everyone knows true beauty comes from the kidneys.

[hexappeal]

They might be vile, too.

[hung_garian]

I'm okay with taking that risk.

[hexappeal]

If you have such low standards, you're probably not up to mine. [Haha, that's rich, Zee.]

[hung_garian]

It's not a matter of low standards, honey. It's a matter of ensuring everyone gets a shot - it's all about making opportunities for the less fortunate.

[hexappeal]

I can't decide if I'm attracted to that attitude or not. It's a really difficult choice, I'm afraid.

[hung_garian]

Who says you need to make a choice at all? You definitely don't need to make one yet.

[hexappeal]

What if I already have? Maybe I'm just not saying it so I don't hurt your feelings.

[hung_garian]

Then don't bother, sweetheart. I don't have feelings.

[hexappeal]

Everyone I've ever known to say that has been full of shit.

[hung_garian]

I'm kind of known for being the exception to all kinds of rules. Including that one.

[hexappeal]

I can say things and act like they're true, too.