crystal

[rathercommon]

FORM: Crystallll
SENDER: Kitty Jones
RECIPIENT: Everyone
WHAT: DOGS DOGS DOGS DOGS EVERYBODYYYY DOGS DOGS DOGS DOGS DOGS
WHEN: Nowish
WHERE: Everywhere
NOTES: Everyone seems sad so: dogs

[ Kitty sounds faintly aggrieved. The reason: ]

So, there's this dog that started following me about. I guess it's mine now or - something. Anyway. Has anyone got ideas for a name?

Comments

[swordproof]

[ Completely serious and deadpan: ]

Two.

[rathercommon]

Er - did you...have a dog previously?

[swordproof]

No. I did not.

[rathercommon]

Then why not "One"?

[swordproof]

Because my name is 'Six'.

[rathercommon]

Erm - really?

[swordproof]

Yes. Really.

[rathercommon]

Why?

[swordproof]

Why not?

[rathercommon]

Because - names typically aren't, you know, numbers.

[swordproof]

I see no reason why that means they can't be.

[rathercommon]

I mean - didn't your parents ever tell you why they named you that?

[swordproof]

[ Quiet, for a moment, but - ]

It was not my parents that named me. I named myself.

[rathercommon]

Oh.

[ Well. Right. ]

Then, um, what made you decide on that number?

[swordproof]

My teacher was a man named Adrian. He liked to gamble, and when I was with him he always seemed to roll sixes. He called me his 'Lucky Six'.

[rathercommon]

Well - what did you call yourself before that?

[swordproof]

Does it matter?

[rathercommon]

Yeah.

[swordproof]

Why? It's not my name any longer.

[rathercommon]

I don't know, because - it was your life.

[ She puffs out a breath. ]

Fine. Then why Two?

[swordproof]

This is my life now.

[ But the conversation change is welcome. ]

It seemed fitting. [ And, quietly; ] I'm not good at names.

[rathercommon]

Yeah, just...Why that number, instead of, like, Seven?

[swordproof]

Because he was small. He wasn't big enough to be a seven.

[rathercommon]

I guess that makes sense, yeah. Maybe I'll name mine Three.

[swordproof]

It would be a good name.