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[usedshooshpap]

Hopefully everyone is done wallowing in shame and embarrassment from that party enough for me to say that if I see mistletoe next year, I will fucking burn the place to the ground. Also, the adult Lalonde is not allowed to add her special "touch" to anything that might go into the bile sacks at any group function. Not that I don't appreciate the sentiment, but the end result was excruciating to watch.

Now that the official business is over, I've got a dilemma here. Obviously the first of the week, I'm going back towards Kanto. Big surprise, I know. What is surprising is that I don't know what I want to do. There are still four badges for me to get, but the question is... Do I just stay in Vermillion or Fuchsia until more tolerable traveling weather is in sight or just  keep going? I'm a little on the fence because it's fucking cold and I hate traveling in it.


[ Locked to Kanaya ]

Hey, is everything all right? I saw you leave the party, but didn't really get the chance to catch up with you.

[ /Locked ]

Oh, right. The Deino hatched yesterday. What the fuck is with these hyperactive hatchlings I've got recently?

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[timelymaid]

I'd say stay put, but since I'm not planning to do the same, that'd be a little hypocritical! I guess it depends how badly you want to be somewhere else.

[usedshooshpap]

I want to stop all these aches is what I'd like.

[timelymaid]

Are you dressing warmly enough?

[usedshooshpap]

I wear my winter gear properly, yes.

[timelymaid]

Then why do you have a bunch of aches? Did you hurt yourself or something?

[usedshooshpap]

More like...

[ pauses for the word. ]

Growing pains?

[timelymaid]

Oh! You're getting taller, then?

[usedshooshpap]

You didn't notice?

Then again, probably not. I was at, like, 4'11" when I first got here.

[timelymaid]

Well, I haven't been here that long, and you seem to be about the same height I remember you at?

I hope you stop aching soon, anyway.

[usedshooshpap]

I might have grown nearly an inch this month. That's all...

If the aches mean I am growing, then I don't care all that much. It's just annoying.

[timelymaid]

That's quite a lot to grow in a month, though! How tall are you with that added on?

I can see how it would be. I haven't grown any taller for a long time now, so I can't really comment on it specifically.

[usedshooshpap]

Pushing 5'3". I grew a little in the year I've been here.

[timelymaid]

So we're nearly the same height, really! Now you just have to work on catching up with Kanaya and Sollux.

Good luck?

[usedshooshpap]

Somehow... I don't think that will happen.

[timelymaid]

Haha...maybe not.

By the way, Sollux told me you're his secretary now. I completely forgot until right this second. [ She knows he wasn't being serious, yes. ]

[usedshooshpap]

Wouldn't you be better to be his secretary, considering you two are traveling together?

[timelymaid]

For now we are! I'm not sure what he wants to do later. Jake and Dirk are tagging along, too.

[usedshooshpap]

Reassuring, let me tell you.

[timelymaid]

Which part? I heard he was going to Ecruteak so I asked if I could go with - there are two towers there, did you know??? - but I'm not sure where he wants to go after that or if he'll still want company, you know?

[usedshooshpap]

Oh, he'll still want your company at least.

[timelymaid]

I think socializing with Jake and Dirk will be good for him!

[ ...or at least it probably won't kill him, so. ] Is Kanaya going with you and Vanitas?

[usedshooshpap]

We'll see, won't we?

[ Karkat nods, then realizes that she probably can't see that so... ]

Yeah. She is. Probably good for her too, all things considering.

filtered;

[timelymaid]

...Well, it won't kill him, anyway. It's not like I invited Eridan along.

[ Aradia nods, too, before realizing the same thing. And hold on a second, she's filtering this. ]

I saw her run off the other night. So...I'm glad it'll be good for her.

filtered;

[usedshooshpap]

I forgot she was kind of interested in Rose...

filtered;

[timelymaid]

[ ...Oh, drat. ]

Oh, no. [ Because Rose and John are so very much a thing... ]

Timelines.