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[lucillefer]

[a respectable 30 seconds after this]

[1] hi

Comments

Lucy

[highercalling]

[1] Hello.
[2] You're a welcome distraction.

Dustin

[lucillefer]

[1] these nights are so tiresome
[2] and yet i always read

Lucy/Dustin

[highercalling]

[1] There's no shame in it.
[2] A lot of people enjoy being their truest self.

Lucy/Dustin

[lucillefer]

[1] i'm sure
[2] but whenever my thoughts are shown
[3] they don't feel like the real me
[...]
[4] anyway

Lucy/Dustin

[highercalling]

[1] Mine [...] usually escape notice. I've been counting my blessings.
[2] Do you Are yours Sometimes we think things even if we don't mean to.

[...]

[3] Anyway.

Lucy/Dustin

[lucillefer]

[1] and what in me is dark, illumine
[...]
[2] may i ask you something
[3] ... two somethings

Lucy/Dustin

[highercalling]

[1] Ha. Exactly.
[2] Is it [...] the height of arrogance to relate to Milton? "Instruct me, for Thou knows't..."
[3] It is. You don't have to say anything. I'm

[...]

[4] [...] Sorry, I'm [...] getting off-track.
[5] Yes and yes. Please. Ask away.

Lucy/Dustin

[lucillefer]

[1] before i hold my tongue
[2] be lowly wise

[...]

[3] 1
[4] do you have plans
[5] on the 16th

Lucy/Dustin

[highercalling]

[1] Ah. Well. [...] Not my strength, I'm afraid.
[2] Although, I've been trying.
[3] The 16th is a Saturday, right? Hold on. Let me check.

[...]

[4] I [...] usually go into town in the morning. And I think there's a dance that night.
[5] Which is to say no, not really. No plans.

Lucy/Dustin

[lucillefer]

[1] 💀💀💀

[....]

[2] there is

[...]

[3] and since you're free
[4] would you like to Not Go with me
[5] ?

Lucy/Dustin

[highercalling]

[1] I should be so lucky. [...] I mean, That was about Wait. [...] Well, also

[...]

[1] Did you have something else in mind or are you just hoping to avoid the streamers and balloons?
[2] If it's the latter, I understand, but they're not as scary as you might think.

Lucy/Dustin

[lucillefer]

[1] ohhhh
[2] i'm not afraid of a little slow dancing and unspiked punch

[...]

[3] ... i just think
[4] we could have more fun on our own
[5] go somewhere maybe

Lucy/Dustin

[highercalling]

[1] Then you're much braver than me.
[2] Okay. Yes. I'd like that.

Lucy/Dustin

[lucillefer]

[1] oh an absolute daredevil

[...]

[2] okay🎶
[3] there will be a condition though
[4] you understand

Lucy/Dustin

[highercalling]

[1] Oh?
[2] That's fine.
[3] I know better than to ask questions.

Lucy/Dustin

[lucillefer]

[1] ... you can if you want
[2] maybe even 21
[3] i had another for you anyway

Lucy/Dustin

[highercalling]

[1] I'm not really s To be honest, I don't
[1] I'm a little out of practice.
[2[ But okay. How about this:
[3] You ask yours, and then I'll ask mine.

Lucy/Dustin

[lucillefer]

[1] okay
[2] don't be weird
[...]
[3] would you tell me
[4] if you didn't want
[5] ... things
[6] ?

Lucy/Dustin

[highercalling]

[1] I'm afraid you're going to have to clarify.
[2] I don't want things all the time.

Lucy/Dustin

[lucillefer]

[1] ok dustin
[....]
[2] things like how sometimes now we kiss when we're alone
[3] is that clear

Lucy/Dustin

[highercalling]

[1] [...] Crystal.

Lucy/Dustin

[lucillefer]

[1] oh my god
[...]
[2] do you want me to count that as a yes?
[3] if so ask me a new question

Lucy/Dustin

[highercalling]

[1] I do. Please.
[2] This is why Noah and Marty always make fun of me, you know.
[3] [...] Do you ask because I know I've been I can do better, I

[...]

[3] Do you like birds?

Lucy/Dustin

[lucillefer]

[1] oh is it :)
[...]
[2] i love birds
[3] especially corvids
[4] i like to watch them think

Lucy/Dustin

[highercalling]

[1] Well. [...] One of many reasons, maybe.
[2] I saw a Great Black Hawk today. Early, early in the morning.
[3] They're supposed to live in Mexico and I saw it here, in the snow.

Lucy/Dustin

[lucillefer]

[1] maybe
[2] but they're silly boys
[3] ... ohhh
[4] !
[5] that feels like an Omen to me
[6] lucky you

Lucy/Dustin

[highercalling]

[1] It does, doesn't it?
[2] There's something special on the horizon. I can just tell.

Lucy/Dustin

[lucillefer]

[1] last time you told me something like that
[2] we learned important things soon after 🌠
[3] may i draw cards for you and your omen
[4] ? x

Lucy/Dustin

[highercalling]

[1] Sometimes, I [...] think I have a sense for these things.
[2] Oh. Yes, go ahead.

[...]

[3] You don't know it, but I'm being very rebellious right now.

Lucy/Dustin

[lucillefer]

[1] against what?
[...]
[some minutes later]
[2] birds + scythe
[3] be alert to incoming danger
[4] cut through the chatter in your mind
[5] you may need to make difficult negotiations
[6] perhaps with yourself, perhaps with others

Lucy/Dustin

[highercalling]

[1] Dogmatic constitution, mostly.
[2] So, [...] my mother and God, depending on who you ask.

[...]

[3] That seems to be true more often than I'd like.

Lucy/Dustin

[lucillefer]

[1] these things are just ...
[2] a different way of putting thoughts in order
[3] why should god be jealous of tiny tricks

[...]

[4] our life and our lot
[5] do you
[5] do you ever feel ... tired ?

Lucy/Dustin

[highercalling]

[1] I've been told He's very particular. It's the tiny things that bother Him most of all.

[...]

[2] Mm.
[3] I [...] Sometimes.
[4] Honestly, sometimes, I [...] lie down and I can't see how it is I'll ever get up. [...] But, you know. Then I do.
[5] What about you?

Lucy/Dustin

[lucillefer]

[1] freak for control
[2] he should bother himself with a vacation
[3] give someone else a chance :)

[...]

[4] i feel like i'm dy
[4] i'm a brain held up by strings
[5] but marty is teaching me to fight and
[6] so my flesh drags less lately

Lucy/Dustin

[highercalling]

[1] Unfortunately, it's been hard to source a replacement in His absence.

[...]

[2] Do you ever [...]
[2] I'm glad someone is thinking.
[3] I have whole days when my brain feels a million miles away. Like sleepwalking. [...] It's [...] not such a bad thing.
[4] [...] You couldn't have a better teacher.

Lucy/Dustin

[lucillefer]

[1] i can think of several viable candidates
[2] but
[3] chaos and discordia are hard sells

[...]

[4] ... i never really stop
[5] familiar haze. i get that too when i'm not wel
[6] but it feels good to be ... present
[7] i feel strong when he pushes me around
[8] is that strange ?

Lucy/Dustin

[highercalling]

[1] No. No, it's not strange.
[2] [...] Not to me, at least. It's [...] possible I'm not the right person to ask.
[3] I think [...] fighting [...] demands presence. So. Maybe that's why.

Lucy/Dustin

[lucillefer]

[1] to be in the body
[2] in the moment
[3] and use it to exert pure will
[4] it's a kind of magic maybe