>Kanaya: Panic

[chastesaw]

[Phone]

*Kanaya's voice sounds as precise and collected as ever... for the most part. If someone knows her very, very well they might be able to hear that she's speaking slightly faster than normal.* Hello, everybody.

I hope that the adolescent populace (and perhaps some of the adults as well) enjoyed themselves at the hiveapproaching soiree this past weekend, and that they all learned valuable lessons whether personal or otherwise. For example, I am now aware that it is in poor judgment to trust human beverages no matter how sweet and fruitlike they may smell.

It was heartening to see the combined attendees make some attempt at "cleaning up," so to speak, and I would like to remind you all that there is no reason to cease caring about your appearance simply because there is no formal event to attend. This may have been a good start but I dearly hope that you will all continue going forward.

If you need sound advice on the matter I will gladly render it.

[Private to Karkat 1338 Benny Road]

*And here, Kanaya sounds more outright distressed.* Karkat? Karkat, are you there? I believe I have found myself in a rather severe dilemma and I'm not altogether certain how to proceed.

I can't really offer any explanations for my thoughts at the time, if I was in fact thinking anything at all, but I kissed her. Momentarily. For a brief fleeting instant that might as well not have existed except that I am positive it did.

This has become a very precarious scenario.

*Kanaya believes she has just phoned Karkat. She has, in fact, phoned his entire house.*

Comments

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[chastesaw]

It's true that it isn't my business, but I don't see anything wrong in offering advice and/or encouragement.

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[nomorelosing.livejournal.com]

No one likes a busybody, and besides, it makes you come across as superficial. There are more important things than your appearance. [says the guy who obsesses over his on a daily basis.]

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[chastesaw]

I have never once insinuated that it is the most important thing but that does not mean it is something that can be wholly ignored either. And there are far too many who do not give it the attention or energy demanded of it.

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[nomorelosing.livejournal.com]

It can be forgiven considering where we are. There's plenty of other things to devote your energy to.

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[chastesaw]

Such as? I was under the impression that day-to-day life in the enforced rigors of a manufactured human hivecluster was actually rather repetitive and mundane.

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[nomorelosing.livejournal.com]

Hivecluster - ? I wouldn't call struggling to survive "mundane" by any means. Everyone is just looking to get through the day in one piece. Surely you aren't exempt from that, er...whatever-you-are.

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[chastesaw]

I attend the schoolhive and return home as necessary. There hasn't been a potentially lethal threat in weeks, and any potential dramatics that may or may not have occurred at Hiveapproaching aside, it is actually fairly dull much of the time here.

And I am Kanaya Maryam. A troll. Though not currently.

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[nomorelosing.livejournal.com]

Not as much as you'd think. There are a lot of dangerous people here. A couple of days ago, some guy tried to fry this girl I know with heart-vision; like some weirdo comic book character.

...Troll? Like, a monster?

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[chastesaw]

Oh, that does sound a bit dangerous, yes. I will thusly amend my statement to "I have not personally encountered any potentially lethal threats in need of handling."

I don't think of myself as particularly monstrous, no.

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[nomorelosing.livejournal.com]

Then you must be doing something right. Lately, I feel like I've wandered into a cartoon.

The only ones I know of are the kind from fairy tales. Never thought there was any factual basis to those stories...

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[chastesaw]

I wouldn't be altogether surprised if we were well-represented in the subconscious mythos of your kind given certain circumstances which I am reluctant to divulge right now to a stranger, but no, I am neither a fairy nor do I come from a tale.

We come from the planet Alternia.