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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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[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.