Hm. [He takes the card back from the stranger, holding it up to the handful of flowers he had been given.] Probably. Guess I'm not as used to the whole notion.
[They'd never been allotted time or opportunity for harmless fun. The closest they had gotten had maybe been mobile worker training with paint ammunition, but even that had been a process to teach children to kill without thought, without concern. Probably the very definition of harmful fun.
Tekkadan had offered them more time for quiet, for joyful moments to themselves. Orga had had a few, but as they grew more renowned, more of his time was dedicated to the dreadfully boring: the politicking, the deliberations.
The card blinks with the answer to his own floral horoscope, and he gives a single laugh. Well, maybe it was more of a grunt of acknowledgement - there wasn't much mirth to the sound. ZINNIA - THOUGHTS OF ABSENT FRIENDS, it read.]
Cute.
[The flat tone of voice implies something different, though.]
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[They'd never been allotted time or opportunity for harmless fun. The closest they had gotten had maybe been mobile worker training with paint ammunition, but even that had been a process to teach children to kill without thought, without concern. Probably the very definition of harmful fun.
Tekkadan had offered them more time for quiet, for joyful moments to themselves. Orga had had a few, but as they grew more renowned, more of his time was dedicated to the dreadfully boring: the politicking, the deliberations.
The card blinks with the answer to his own floral horoscope, and he gives a single laugh. Well, maybe it was more of a grunt of acknowledgement - there wasn't much mirth to the sound. ZINNIA - THOUGHTS OF ABSENT FRIENDS, it read.]
Cute.
[The flat tone of voice implies something different, though.]