crystal.

[exequy]

FORM: Crystal
SENDER: Kostos Averesch
RECIPIENT: All y'all
WHAT: Innocent query
WHEN: Nowish

If anyone here is secretly possessed, I need to speak with you.

[ That's all.

No, wait: ]

This is not a trap.

[ There. ]

Comments

[wheretheferngrows]

...are you some sort of funny person?

[pause]

You're really terrible at it.

[foundmyselfagain]

No, he was tragically born without a sense of humor. The midwife tried everything she could, but sometimes there's nothing you can do.

[exequy]

You've met my mother's midwife.

[foundmyselfagain]

And you haven't?

[exequy]

Not that I can recall.

[foundmyselfagain]

You should, she's a lovely woman. Very hard working. You remain the sole blemish on an otherwise spotless record of children with perfectly functioning humors.

[exequy]

Mm. You've may have met mother's midwife, then, but you definitely haven't met my brother.

[foundmyselfagain]

...There's two of you?

[ Proof there is no Maker. ]

[exequy]

[ Wow no need for blasphemy.

Proof the Maker has abandoned them, though, sure. ]

If you must put it that way, yes.

[ A pause, then he sounds... not bright, exactly, definitely not chipper, but at least sort of amused, maybe, kind of. ]

I'm the friendly one.

[foundmyselfagain]

One, you're the one that's my friend, so I'm inclined to believe that.

[ Shamelessly uses the low blow of FRIENDSHIP FEELINGS. ]

[exequy]

[ Dammit. ]

Well... good. Because it really is true.

[galvanising]

Having now met the brother, I can confirm. And you can imagine how unfriendly the brother must be, for me to say that I prefer the man who hid from me that he even had a twin for so many years!

[ she'll let it go eventually, but not today ]

[exequy]

You never asked.

[wheretheferngrows]

Don't see how it matters--you seem to have got sense of humour enough for make up for it.

[what's with all these funny shems, ugh]

[foundmyselfagain]

Someone has to take up his slack.

[exequy]

Do you think possession is funny?

[wheretheferngrows]

[shit]

[wheretheferngrows]

Of course not, I just--can't imagine anyone would just go around asking people whether they're secretly an abomination and actually expect an honest response!

[and she's not saying that because she's secretly an abomination, ok, you're just a weird guy, Kostos]

[exequy]

How fortunate that reality isn't limited by your imagination.