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[cold_dry_pieces]

These might make for better conversations than normal Conversation Hearts-- more varied, anyway-- but I'm willing to bet they don't taste any better. Especially given the side effects, if the Network's to be believed.

What I want to know is, why hasn't the sand let up?

What is it, if not a curse?

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[othersdie]

Something worse than a curse.

[cold_dry_pieces]

That almost goes without saying.

[othersdie]

You should have said it.

Maybe something apocalyptic will happen again.

[cold_dry_pieces]

That does happen, from time to time.

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[synanthrope]

Hello.

Brian.

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[cold_dry_pieces]

Hello, Saya.

I didn't know you ate candy.

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[synanthrope]

I always make an exception today.

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[cold_dry_pieces]

To be honest I'd wondered if you could.

Learn anything interesting?

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[synanthrope]

A piece of chalky candy? Yes. Much more and I'd have to vomit.

Your name. Some other things, but nothing you'd be interested in. You?

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[cold_dry_pieces]

You're not as bored with all of your siblings as I expected.

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[synanthrope]

No.

Not all of them.

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[cold_dry_pieces]

What makes that one special?

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[synanthrope]

Because he is.

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[cold_dry_pieces]

That isn't much of an answer.

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[synanthrope]

But it's the most honest one.

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[cold_dry_pieces]

Is he more like you than he ones I've met?

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[synanthrope]

No. He's nothing like me.

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[cold_dry_pieces]

Nothing at all?

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[synanthrope]

Mostly.

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[cold_dry_pieces]

You're not in a very giving mood.

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[synanthrope]

I don't talk about Socrates.

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[cold_dry_pieces]

Well, I can understand that.

[dignity_misery]

Anything interesting?

[cold_dry_pieces]

I don't really care for candy.

[Lies, of course.]

Have you been eating them?

[dignity_misery]

A few. Some of them were more entertaining than others.

[cold_dry_pieces]

Entertaining?

[dignity_misery]

Maybe I just have a bad sense of humor.

[cold_dry_pieces]

What did you see?

[dignity_misery]

People bring a lot of blood with them to this place, not all of it their own.

[cold_dry_pieces]

There seems to be a lot of that going around.

[dignity_misery]

It's a little more intimate than I would have gone with some of those people.

[The girl who was a complete stranger. Carla has her face burned into her mind, her bleeding limbs. As for the others...]

[cold_dry_pieces]

You rarely get choices in that respect.

[Though sometimes it works out for the best.]

[dignity_misery]

That's one of those things I like to do with intent.

[cold_dry_pieces]

It sounds like a fair number of them are anonymous, too.

[dignity_misery]

[She laughs.]

That's not always so bad. I guess it depends on the circumstances.

{Did she mention she has a bad sense of humor?]

[cold_dry_pieces]

You rarely get a choice of circumstances, either.

[dignity_misery]

You can make the best of them.

[Although she does not sound nearly as optimistic as one should when spewing a disgusting little saying like that.]

[cold_dry_pieces]

Find your entertainment where you can?

[dignity_misery]

Something like that.

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[sitaronthewater]

I've never had any before the City. But they do taste pretty weird.

And I dunno, I mean, there've been weather curses before. But those are usually like a week at the most. But there's also been, uh, not-curses? Like, they're kind of like curses, but. They're not.

[OoC: Fun fact, I kind of sob-laughed while writing that last bit. Oh god, Demyx.]

[Voice]

[cold_dry_pieces]

That's true, it's just always unusual to see something continue alongside curses. And I feel like, in the past, it's been something more menacing than sand. Though if this continues I suppose it will disastrous enough for anyone's tastes.

[Voice]

[sitaronthewater]

Yeah, that's true, I guess . . . hey, maybe the City'll just turn into a giant beach or something! That'd be pretty cool, right?

[Voice]

[cold_dry_pieces]

Much better than other alternatives I could think up.