002.

[strangel]

FORM: Crystals
SENDER: Helena
RECIPIENT: everyone
WHAT: ??? family ???
WHEN: Early May
WHERE: Kirkwall
NOTES: (some talk of death and trauma in a few threads) when can she acquire her custom spec in sestrahood?

Hello crystals. I have question.

( There is a long pause before Helena continues. Long enough that it could seem plausible that the question is never coming. And then, with a rush, )

How do you be good twin?

I'm— not sure how to be good sister. We were being apart long time. I thought maybe peanut butters would be good present, but I think it made Sarah unhappy.

( Stiltedly, ) I stole her crystal, do not play this for her. Thank you.

Comments

[inagutterson]

Sometimes you punch them in the arm, sometimes you let them punch you in the arm. Or you taste their weird horrible concoctions that make everything taste of metal shavings for three days.

[Or you make them your trap tester. Growing Up Carta (TM).]

[strangel]

Did concoctions have metal shavings in them?

( Or just taste of them? This sounds important. )

Sarah not like punching, I think. ( She could be wrong. She did shoot her, that one time. )

[inagutterson]

You can't ask when they're in a mood with you, it's not right to ask you just do it to prove that you love them that much you'd maybe chug down metal shavings. It's like-- you're showing that you trust them too. Y'know?

['I love you this much to accept this potentially poisoned beverage dear brother even when the last one turned my tongue blue for three days and I saw the Maker and he threatened to rip my heart out through my kneecaps'.

That sort of deep shit.]

Maybe that's a dwarf thing then but are you sure? Sometimes things need to get a bit tasty, they want to do some punching but they don't know it yet, you need to get them there. It's all part of it. Because you screwed up.

[strangel]

Yes.

( No. Probably she will take whatever advice Yngvi has to offer in the worst possible way. Hurrah. )

I should let her punch me.

[inagutterson]

Not in the face. That's the moneymaker. There's rules.

[strangel]

Money makers?

( eAe ) Explain this.

[inagutterson]

Your face. Can't go messing the face up because it's what people see and talk to. And I've got a handsome one, so it gets me money when I'm making deals. Also like the mouth region, you tried talking much with a fat lip or if someone lands a good one in the jaw? Your mouth's knackered then, old silver tongue might near get bitten off an' all.

[TAKE NOTES HELENA!!!]