menial | 10 ~ comparing those worlds to this boring, normal life [audio/picture]

['Well. It sure got cold pretty fast, huh? Which means that I'm rapidly approaching the one-year mark, so I should really be proud. Or something. After burrowing myself away to avoid complications from refugees, my antisociality has reached a certain limit.

Unfortunately, I also have nothing to contribute beyond the observation about the weather which I already blithely used up there! Not that people can read my thoughts, but if they could, they'd find out. Well, they'd find out a lot of things. But who would want to anyway? It would just go on and on without any point.

Anyway, I guess I'll poorly disguise my attempt to see who's up for a random conversation with some kind of opener. Hey, if I were at home, this would be a mind-scarring Omegle session or something. At least I'm pretty sure I won't run into the usual problems stranger-chatting over the journal.'

...and so:]

So I found this in a book the other day.

Maybe this doesn't work as well over the journal, but I thought it was cool, anyway. Or at least different from discussions about fire and eternal suffering, continued kidnapping, disappearance, reappearance, cross-dressing, and so on.

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...That was my reaction, too.

Right.

Uh, so who's the one you dated?

[ oh jeez kyon.

buffy sucks in a very audible breath. ]

T-technically? Both.

......

So this is really more of a pattern than an exception.

It's not exactly that simple. But I do promise that I've dated more humans than vampires.

...

You've dated quite a bit, huh?

[ sputter! ]

Hello. Almost-twenty-seven-year-old here. 'Quite a bit' for you is...'modestly appropriate' for me.

Oh... Right, right. I --

Well, you know, I just keep thinking of you as, like, twenty or so.

['Turn it around! That's a compliment, right?']

...Smooth move, Don Juan. But -- in all serious -- five serious boyfriends over twenty-seven years. That's not that despicable. Surely.

That's counting the current and extremely non-ex one, of course.

[ and not the guy who left her in vegas. or that one-night-stand in college. ]

['Damn. Seen through.']

... You're really going to count all twenty-seven years in there?

Fine. Since I was...sixteen. Fifteen? No -- sixteen.

So let's say eleven years...? Switching out once every two years?

I mean, a laptop usually lasts, what, four or five, but...

Sure. But when you account for how often ex-boyfriends either go evil or get sent home...?

[ A VERBAL SHRUG. ]

...she said, as if "going evil" was a thing that regular people did.

...Regular people? Maybe not. But I guess I should've expected it from a vampire.

... Does that go for both vampires?

[ yes. absolutely. wholly. entirely. completely. because spike... ]

N-no.

"N-no."

['Could I get a translation of that into English or Lucetinese or whatever, from the original "lying"?']

It's...complicated?

It always is, isn't it?

The important part is that he's no longer a threat. Ideally. As long as he keeps his soul a-and...even then...

[ he's usually alright.

kinda.

sorta. ]

Well, I'm confident now.

How about this, then?

I trust him with my life. [ now. ]

...

All right. Good enough for me, then.

And if you're lucky? You'll never have to meet him.

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