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[dropkick]

So, say you're going to a barbecue. What kind of food do you assume's going to be there?


[ They probably should have made a list.

...

And actually that audio is still on; Arthur's distracted, busy in fact as the device picks up the roll of four tiny wheels and general chatter of what must be a shop. Then a pause of the wheels... ]

...are you too old for holding hands?

[ He's just paranoid maybe. It's a busy store.

Anyway he gets his answer just a second later, a young girl's voice: ]

I do not think so.

[ Some more grocery background noise as the cart starts rolling again before the girl speaks again ]

Dad, your device is on. [ pause and this time she's obviously speaking into it on purpose, rather than muffled like before ] Poppa, did you want us to bring you anything?

[ Then the device is turned off properly. ]




[ooc: family cursed? family cursed.]

Comments

[signatures]

Naturally of course you prefer calculus.

[archivy]

Of course?

[signatures]

You're quite smart and good with numbers.

[archivy]

They make sense. [ She understands everything, words, magic, that is part of being the Archive, but it doesn't mean she likes all of it. ]

[signatures]

I'm not terribly good about it.

[archivy]

Everyone has their strengths and weaknesses. You don't know magic, either.

[signatures]

I'm willing to be incapable of some things.

[archivy]

You're quite capable at other things.

[signatures]

So I'm told.

[archivy]

It is the case.

[signatures]

Fact or opinion?

[archivy]

Subjective fact.

[signatures]

That's a new one.

[archivy]

I think it covers the situation quite well.

[signatures]

Like truthful flattery, really.

[archivy]

It need not always be an oxymoron.

[signatures]

As long as your opinion of me is good, I can't complain.

[archivy]

You're my father. [ Not really, but— in all the ways that count. ] I love you. [ It's not something she says often; she isn't supposed to love either of them, to have any emotional involvement, but she does. ]

[signatures]

[ Eames finds it hard to believe in curses that cause you to have strong feelings that you might otherwise not - and its part of what will make it so difficult to swallow when the weekend ends, that he felt so genuine about something like this one moment only to not by the beginning of the week, something like: ]

And I you, Miss Ivy. Now hurry up and finish your shopping, I've work to finish.

[archivy]

Yes, Poppa.