Audience: Yuri Leclerc

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An eleven? But only if it's really, really good and while it's still hot. And you make it sound like taking care of animals is a bad thing. They seem sweet.

[lust has possibly never interacted with a horse in their life. but hmmmmmmmm.]

I thought you knew this whole time I'm a girl, Yuri. [teasing, but there's your confirmation.]

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Eh. I'm not great with them? Never really been able to get the knack of being comfortable on horseback, that kind of thing.

[ he's working on the second pinnnnnk coat now. ]

Better to confirm than assume, right?

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I've never really tried it, but it always looks so easy. Guess it's not. But traveling on foot sounds tiring, too.

[they wiggle their fingers again, just a bit.]

I wouldn't mind so much if you assumed anyway, but I get it. And now you know!

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Are you somewhere you can't really go horseriding? It's... pretty much the only way to travel long distance where I'm from. Unless you're on the ocean.

[ the nails are coming together. ]

And now I know! [ now to come out swinging? ] What's your real name?

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It's not really common, no. Maybe out in the country but I haven't visited a place like that.

[but...they point with their free hand, index-finger out.] Objection! Lust is my real name.

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You're from the city then?


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he just gives her a flat look. but he'll allow it. ]

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Yeah. Is that so surprising?

[:3]

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[ stop i am trying so hard to think who it is ]

... I'm just trying to think what a big modern city must look like. Even our cities can accomodate horses, after all.

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Has anyone taught you what cars are yet? Or trains?

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that's a no, lust! ]

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...um...what about a carriage?

[aubins]

[ recognition! ]

Yeah, I know what a carriage is.

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Good! A car is kind of like a carriage, but it moves without horses. It has an engine, and you're the one actually controlling where it's going unless you have a self-driving car or something.

[aubins]

[ he just imagining horseless carriages now and it's kinda weird. ]

And those replaced horses, these uh.... self-driving car things? Or not self-driving car things.

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Between those and trains, yeah! People still ride horses but usually out where there's a lot of space, or at a stable. They're pretty expensive to own, too.

[aubins]

That makes them sound like more of a pet thing.

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They are pets! Unless you live on a farm or somewhere rural or something.

[aubins]

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Wow, that's a pretty big departure from back home.

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What's the city you live in called, then?

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Hm...when you can reach a few other places, I'll tell you then. Okay? It'd be more fun to show you.

[aubins]

There's somewhere here that can do that? ... Not Amaurot the simulation room?

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Kinda! I don't like using the simulation room to bring it up because it's not really the same. And it's just sort of sad.

[aubins]

... Because it's too absorbing, or...?

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Yeah. And because I miss it sometimes, so it's dumb to make it happen when I can't eat my favorite things or really be in all my favorite places.

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Yeah, that’s fair. It’s been too easy to forget you’re not wherever the simulation is telling you you are.

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Yeah.

...have you spent time in there already?