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[heavenscorpse.livejournal.com]

[A very, very large stack of books sits behind V/V in her hotel room. She faces the camera.]

First, does anyone know how to successfully advertise? There wasn't anything like it on Venus, of course, since that would have been ridiculous. And I really want to do a good job for Gilgamesh, or he'll probably get mad... [As an aside:] Do you think he'd throw me out the window too? That would hurt more this time.

Um, second. Since there are a lot of books that weren't good enough to be in our store, or I guess that's the reason he gave them to me, if anyone wants to check some of them out I'd be happy to let anyone have them. Please stop by. It's nice to see people, too!

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[skaldssong.livejournal.com]

Really? That's a bit surprising, honestly. You don't seem shy or anything like that at all.

[heavenscorpse.livejournal.com]

If I had to explain who I was, and I said I was something that almost killed everyone there, it wouldn't have gone as well. Here everyone's 'strange' already.

[skaldssong.livejournal.com]

On one hand, I want to tell you that you wouldn't have to tell them that was you.

On the other hand, I don't want to be the first one who suggests the use of deceit to you.

[heavenscorpse.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't be a very good liar, I think.

[skaldssong.livejournal.com]

It's not a skill I can say I'm totally proud of. It does make some things easier, but it's kind of a cowardly way to go about it.

[heavenscorpse.livejournal.com]

I do admire bravery. It's hard to explain what it is exactly, but I've seen that.

[skaldssong.livejournal.com]

Yeah. It's one of those topics that's... kind of hard to really pin down. Mutable, I guess.

[heavenscorpse.livejournal.com]

It was the first thing I saw, if you think about it. You had to be really brave to try to take down a Type.

[skaldssong.livejournal.com]

[Visions of a city-plus sized FishTree dance in her head momentarily.]

...Good point. Your first memories are probably an extreme example of that... state of being? Emotion? Not sure what to call it.

[heavenscorpse.livejournal.com]

Words are almost as complicated as concepts sometimes.

[skaldssong.livejournal.com]

I can agree with that, I suppose. There are so many, sometimes picking the right one for a situation is a challenge.

[heavenscorpse.livejournal.com]

How many do you know?

[skaldssong.livejournal.com]

...I think my head would hurt if I started to actually count them all.

[heavenscorpse.livejournal.com]

Hundreds? Maybe thousands?

[skaldssong.livejournal.com]

Definitely thousands. Maybe tens of 'em.

Never really thought about it, truth be told.

[heavenscorpse.livejournal.com]

There are a lot of things people don't think about that are amazing.

[skaldssong.livejournal.com]

Stuff that doesn't get considered normally, things that are just out of sight, occurrences that are taken for granted.

Sounds about right.

[heavenscorpse.livejournal.com]

And we're people who should know, right?

[skaldssong.livejournal.com]

[She tilts her head curiously at that.]

Um. Maybe? What'cha mean?

[heavenscorpse.livejournal.com]

Well, I'm outside of humanity, so I spend a lot of time just observing everything that humans don't really.

[skaldssong.livejournal.com]

Oh. [A pause, a nod.] Guess when you put it that way, you're right.

[heavenscorpse.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure what your story is.

[skaldssong.livejournal.com]

It's... [A pause. There was no reason, other than habit, to play dumb here. She sighed and conceded.]

A long, boring story. Don't really want to have it circulating all over the place, either.

If you'd really like to know, head over here to my room. Don't really feel comfortable using such an impersonal way of talking to tell it.

[heavenscorpse.livejournal.com]

I'll be there soon.

[skaldssong.livejournal.com]

[There wasn't much ceremony to letting V/V into her room, when the Angel-come-Human arrived. A simple "make yourself at home" as the maroon-haired woman sat on the edge of her bed.]

Sorry, give me a moment. Still not sure what I wanna say, what I wanna keep mum about, what I should and shouldn't say.

...It's complicated. [She finished, smiling weakly.]