crystal.

[cozen]

FORM: Crystal
SENDER: Bastien
RECIPIENT: Everyone
NOTES: Nonsense. If your characters will not say anything but are obviously/observably involved with people, please feel even more encouraged than normal to "not here" reply with the deets for everyone's gossip-gathering purposes.

Bonjour, mes amis.

[ Faintly sing-song, but in a drawling and subdued way. It doesn't do to sound too chipper and excited about asking people semi-invasive questions. ]

I have been talking to the Seneschal, and we thought—well, it's possible we might need a fraternization policy. Or a record, at least, in case it becomes a problem later. And to decide whether that is necessary: information about fraternization.

[ It's obvious from his voice that he's pleased that that rhymes. ]

So who is together? Or involved, if together is a scary word.

Please feel very free to rat out your bashful friends.

[ As an afterthought, ]

If you have opinions about the policy or record part, I will take those, too.

Comments

[cozen]

I suppose. But I find it much easier to trust people professionally if I know about their childhoods and daydreams first.

[arkitect]

Then, if I might hazard a guess, I would suppose there are a larger number of us that are difficult.

[cozen]

Quite a few, yes.

[ He's not being entirely serious. For the record. ]

Were you ever a child, Emet-Selch?

[arkitect]

[It's fine, he probably isn't either. Or that just might be his bad habit of tending to sound faintly amused in a lot of conversations.]

A very long time ago, yes. I hadn't realized this was in question.

[cozen]

I would believe that something that doesn’t have to end doesn’t have to begin, either.

[ Immortality! It’s weird! ]

Were you a cute child?

[arkitect]

Fair, I suppose-- but no, even we were born at some point.

You will have to simply imagine it for yourself, however.

[cozen]

I’m imagining… a withholding, secretive child, who does not like other people prying into his little child business.

[arkitect]

I might say simply private, as opposed to secretive. There is at least some distinction to be had, there.

[cozen]

Private, [ agreeably. ] And adorable.

[arkitect]

As much so as any other child, I'm sure-- but who would say aloud that one wasn't?

[cozen]

I was hideous. [ No he wasn’t. ] My mother called me her little potato— [ No she didn’t. ] —and that was her trying to be nice.

[ Kernel of truth in that last part. She was a very blunt woman. ]

[arkitect]

Now, it is a useful enough root. I should think that to be a serviceable compliment, either way.

[cozen]

Ah, a small child wants nothing more than to be considered useful.

[arkitect]

Well, they ought to, at the least. Children these days do tend to be different.