Aather: Candle call post

[thinkoutsidethebox]

[Please put an approximate IC date & time in the subject!]

Comments

[rebells]

[rolls his eyes]

Strangely enough, there's a lot of distance between "I was lying to you" and "Yes, Erika, please interrogate me whenever you like."

[thinkoutsidethebox]

Then, tell me, when would be a better time? I'll call and interrogate you then.

[rebells]

. . .

Are you insane?

[thinkoutsidethebox]

[sigh]

You understand the point, don't you? You may not have meant you'd talk to me any time, but for it to have not been a lie you have to have meant some time.

[rebells]

You really don't have anything better to do with your time, do you?

[thinkoutsidethebox]

I'm keeping busy, but it's a bit lonely out here.

[rebells]

Maybe if you were less irritating, people would be more willing to talk to you.

[thinkoutsidethebox]

Plenty of people are willing to talk to me, but I don't want to talk to just anyone.

[rebells]

Understandably, as it takes a very stupid person to want to talk to you.

[thinkoutsidethebox]

That's not universally the case.

[rebells]

I'm not convinced it isn't.

[thinkoutsidethebox]

Certainly some people don't know what they're getting into, but there are at least a few people of above-average intelligence who enjoy my company, for your information.

[rebells]

Anyone who talks to you willingly has something wrong with them.

[thinkoutsidethebox]

Doesn't everyone have something wrong with them? You're the only one who outright refuses to speak with me, you know.

[rebells]

Some people have more wrong with them than others.

[he's not being entirely serious . . . that might be hard to tell, though.]

[thinkoutsidethebox]

Obviously.

[rebells]

Don't look so happy when you say that . . . .

[thinkoutsidethebox]

It would be boring otherwise, wouldn't it?

[rebells]

People can be interesting in ways that don't involve pathological issues.

[thinkoutsidethebox]

And would you want everyone in the world to all be invariably, mundanely interesting, with all precisely the same amount of non-pathological issues? To begin with, wouldn't that make you feel a bit left out?

[rebells]

[wow I can already tell you are going to be a bad influence]

Left out of what? Of having pathological issues?

[thinkoutsidethebox]

Of not having them.

[rebells]

[rolls his eyes, not dignifying that with a response]

[thinkoutsidethebox]

[giggles]

Have you considered that maybe it's having issues that's preventing you from wanting to talk to me, rather than the reverse?

[rebells]

[flatly]

No.