022 ♍ video ♍ yes this is during school hours

[glowsferatu]

[ the scene opens on the desk in kanaya's room, with her sitting behind it. on top of it is a book turned upside down, the cover showing a large man caressing the leg of a woman mostly out of the frame. loose ends, by c.m. guarde, and kanaya seems to be already halfway through it. next to it is a water bottle half-full of a thick, red liquid.

the curtains are drawn, and the only light in the room seems to be coming from her. she has her chin propped up in her hand, and her eyes are heavily lidded, not as made-up as usual. she hasn't left her room all day except to buy this book. ]

It's funny, isn't it. The things one will do out of a hope for love. How much one will ignore, and agonize over, and consciously blind herself to. It comes to a point where you have to wonder whether Kristof is even worth the effort, but nonetheless, Nora makes no sign of relenting. She believes because she has to, and maybe if it should end in the worst possible manner, she will find a way through it still, to remain with the one she loves.

There's something beautiful in that. Tragic, perhaps, but still meaningful. And maybe it that which keeps drawing me back to the series. If Kristof could have someone to love him so much, could there be hope for the rest of us?

[ she turns the book back over, raising an eyebrow at the text. ] But it's still only fiction. That may ultimately be an unfair expectation of the world.

[ she slides over her bottle to take a quick sip from it. ]

Is anyone else reading these?

Comments

[glowsferatu]

No. But they don't separate me so dramatically from my compatriots, either. We are still nonetheless bound by common species, even if our status of life differs.

And I have been sick since its assumption. [ she's not gonna list examples though, since...both of them were kind of awful and she doesn't want to bring them up. ]

[symmachy]

[considering]

None of this actually convinces me that you're sick right now.

[glowsferatu]

Well, why don't we just tie me to the stake, then, and see if I'll burn?

[ they've been reading the crucible in english class this week, discussing its historical context. ]

[symmachy]

Detention isn't all that bad.

[glowsferatu]

That doesn't mean it should be inflicted heedlessly. Stepping on a tack isn't all that bad, either, but I'm not about to recommend to everyone that they try it, much less force them into a position where they need to experience it because I've determined that they should.

That's about the quickest route possible to ridding yourself of all friends.

[symmachy]

I don't consider students my friends.

[glowsferatu]

The feeling is beyond mutual, I assure you, but I'm not exactly a student while not in class, am I?

[symmachy]

You're a student until summer vacation or you graduate.

[glowsferatu]

I'm a student while I'm under the roof of your institution. My life beyond is in no way defined by that establishment.

And today, I am not a student.

I'm. Sick.

[symmachy]

[eyeroll
even though she literally has all the time in the world she has no time to waste on snotty teenage bullshit]

Bring a doctor's note when you return and we'll see about that detention.

[DIS



CONNECTS]

[glowsferatu]

[ casually adds notch to "i should just drop out" tally board. ]