Audience: Harrowhark Nonagesimus

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[(that gatsby comic voice) what BABY.]

It's okay! There's a lot of us, you know? And a lot of you guys, so it's not like we expect all of you to come talk to all of us.

[bonetiddies]

Well, yes, but it feels a little unnatural, to know so little about you. And I've found some of you to be a surprise.

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How so?

[they observe her curiously, both with their face eyes and one on their hand.]

Just not what you expected out of someone with our sins?

[bonetiddies]

Something like that. I didn't expect I would get along with the Avatars of sins that I find particularly distasteful. Greed, Lust. . . Envy, to some degree.

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Oh, yeah, Greed isn't bad and Lust is absolutely a sweetheart. I would definitely mess with you if you said anything mean about Lust.

[but she hasn't, so she's safe. it's fine.]

But I'm, uh, glad I'm not that distasteful? Honestly, kind of not used to everyone being this chill about everything...

[bonetiddies]

You'd mess with me?

[A small quirk of a smile.]

How would you mess with me?

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Did you see how Wrath made that one guy unable to say anything? I can do stuff too, you know.

[they waggle their fingers!]

[bonetiddies]

[She looks so. So not intimidated.]

Well, it is true - you have powers and I have none. I suppose you could use them against me, and there's little I could do to retaliate. Then again, I have always been creative.

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I could just make you feel like you're not. Like you're not anything at all, actually.

[envy just says this casually, unbothered that she's not intimidated. he might genuinely think this is casual conversation.]

But I'm not going to, so!

[bonetiddies]

[Haha! This was just a casual conversation to her, too, but what he just said really wigs her out? So, good job?]

Do not. Don't do anything to my head. You will come to regret it, and that's a promise.

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I'd only do it if someone really pissed me off-! It's fine, it's fine, I promise, don't be mad--

[he holds up both hands, there.]

[bonetiddies]

[Well, him being defensive the second she gets mad helps a lot in terms of how actually freaked out she is, but she's still sort of scowling.]

. . . It slightly undermines the effect, if you fold so easily.

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Oh- I, uh, I guess so. I'm not very good at that kind of thing.

[he reaches up to rub the back of his neck.]

Which is probably a good thing, overall?

[bonetiddies]

Yes, it is probably a good thing.

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I'm fine with it. I don't think I really want to be intimidating, it's already hard enough to talk to people.

[bonetiddies]

You said you aren't used to everyone being "chill" about everything.

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I mean-- I'm used to being mostly by myself. Myself plus several dead people, anyway, and people who aren't dead usually think I'm out of my mind, so.

[bonetiddies]

Oh.

[. . . She smiles a little at that, actually.]

Yes, I can relate.

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I kinda thought you might.

[they're smiling too, under the hood.]

I'm way more used to dead people than alive ones, but that always sort of weirds people out?

[bonetiddies]

The only other youth, growing up in Drearburh, was a man seventeen years my senior. I was surrounded by our elderly and the crypts. Though I can't say I spoke much with the dead by choice.

[Little does she know...]