Most Likely A Refuge

[whatamithinking]

It was probably safe.

The bar was...unusually reticent, in the lower layers of her mind (and she hadn't pried further; she wasn't sure if she'd be noticed; she wasn't sure if offending would get her kicked out, and regardless of whether it was actually safe it was safer than anywhere else she'd been for the past...three years?) so she couldn't be sure this place wasn't really a trap of some kind, but the higher layers gave a plausible explanation that didn't involve being a trap, and whatever else it was warm and dry and had food. Her guard was probably a full 25% down. Positively trusting, these days.

Comments

[onceandforall]

"...Storytime?"

[whatamithinking]

"I'm a malcontent. People in general are not disposed to calmly discussing and amending their beliefs, even if those beliefs harm others. Authority figures don't take well to 'insubordinate' kids, even when they're being dicks. And sometimes teenagers do it on purpose because they think it's funny."

[onceandforall]

"Ah."

[whatamithinking]

"I'm afraid I don't have any quasi-amusing anecdotes for that one."

[onceandforall]

"Alas."

[whatamithinking]

"Oh well. People," she sighs. "Sometimes I feel like I have a love-hate relationship with the majority of the human race."

[onceandforall]

"I don't get nearly that emotional about it but I suspect similar underlying evaluations."

[whatamithinking]

"I get more emotional than usual about most things."

[onceandforall]

"Whatever keeps you going."

[whatamithinking]

"To be fair, I don't really have as much to deal with on that level as you do."

[onceandforall]

"I run pretty low-key even when there's not as much going on, most of the time."

[whatamithinking]

"That sounds a lot more restful than the way my brain works, not that I'd want to change it."

[onceandforall]

"It is kind of restful, I guess."

[whatamithinking]

"I mean, compared to being me. Not really a comparison either of us could actually check."

[onceandforall]

"Not really. I don't know, I don't feel like I'm resting? I don't have emotions about everything but I do have actions about most of it."

[whatamithinking]

"Yeah, it's just--there's different levels of not resting? I don't know, it's not really important."

[onceandforall]

"Yeah, there's not resting and then there's not resting and also on fire."

[whatamithinking]

...Edie bursts out laughing.

[onceandforall]

[whatamithinking]

"Fire has been used as a metaphor for my emotions so many times."

[onceandforall]

"Has it really?"

[whatamithinking]

"Mostly by my sister while teasing me! But yes." Emily has since left, presumably for whatever she was leaving the house for in the first place and/or to inform their parents that the door was currently translocated.

[onceandforall]

"...Coming up dry on quips about burning passion."

[whatamithinking]

"It's the thought that counts."

[onceandforall]

"So are we going to abscond upstairs again at some point or was that a one time thing."