Twenty Purple Files

[proudambassador]

This gold monstrosity, this, it is not a cape.

It is a death trap.

Six times I have tripped! SIX! And my work, it is over the bridges! I begin to think the Sphere wishes for me to fall to my death because of a cape! Who even wears a cape, hm? A cape, it has no use. It has no function. Except to get under my feet.

Comments

[grab-my-bells.livejournal.com]

Maybe the Sphere is trying to teach you coordination.

[proudambassador.livejournal.com]

Yes. Perhaps it wants me to dance for everyone, hm? A show. Pah.

[notpissedoff]

You wouldn't fall to your death off a bridge. You'd just keep falling.

[proudambassador.livejournal.com]

Until I starved, no? That, it is death.

[notpissedoff]

I highly doubt you'd fall that long without someone noticing and tossing you a rope.

[proudambassador.livejournal.com]

You think so? Myself, I am not so sure. Perhaps others, they will think it is some sort of Tree thing, large Centauri falling from the sky.

[notpissedoff]

I'm sure you'd eventually think to inform them otherwise as you fell past.

[proudambassador.livejournal.com]

Perhaps. When I ran out of names to call them.

[sixthsinner.livejournal.com]

I don't suppose you've tried cutting it off.

[proudambassador.livejournal.com]

Twice, yes. It was restored nearly instantly.

[sixthsinner.livejournal.com]

Too bad. Well, I'm sure you look very regal.

[proudambassador.livejournal.com]

Regal, yes. Stupid, also yes.

[sixthsinner.livejournal.com]

There's a difference between the two?

[proudambassador.livejournal.com]

It is a very small difference sometimes, not even enough to mention on those times. Except this, it is paper, and not visual, hm? So you cannot see. So I must make this clear.

[sixthsinner.livejournal.com]

You could always draw me a picture. I hear those speak a thousand words. That's efficiency for you.

[proudambassador.livejournal.com]

/DIES

[sixthsinner.livejournal.com]

I'll be.

[A pause.]

That's pretty stupid, all right.

:D

[proudambassador.livejournal.com]

Yes. That is why I called it stupid, hm?

[sixthsinner.livejournal.com]

You are a man of your word!

[proudambassador.livejournal.com]

A Centauri of my word, let us say instead.

[grigorichord]

It could be worse. At least it's just an annoying cape.

[proudambassador.livejournal.com]

Yes. This is true. I could be in a skirt as well, hm? And what of you, my dear girl? What are you in?

[grigorichord]

Not enough. Something like what you just said but there's just not enough. I'm not going outside until this goes away.

[proudambassador.livejournal.com]

I am not a kind person, and I do not need hangers-on, but if you would like I can bring food to your door until it does.

[grigorichord]

Hanger-ons? That would be really helpful. I'm going to have to disagree with your first sentence.

[proudambassador.livejournal.com]

People who mistakenly think I am nice and follow me around looking to be helped more. Kind people, they have a habit of helping, yes? I do not. This, it is a whim.

What is it that you like to eat?

[grigorichord]

I promise not to follow you around then.

Anything is fine. I'm not too picky, though I don't think I like fish too much.

[proudambassador.livejournal.com]

Then I shall go and get you food that is not fish, and I shall bring it over.

[grigorichord]

Thank you.

[desertshadows.livejournal.com]

They do go swoosh rather nicely, though!

[proudambassador.livejournal.com]

It goes swoosh, I go swoosh, and then I am on the ground. Nice, it is not the word I would use.

[desertshadows.livejournal.com]

So, more 'painful'? Does it stay up if you pin it?

[proudambassador.livejournal.com]

Yes. That, it is a more accurate word.

Pin it? A cape? This, I had not thought of. I shall try it.

[desertshadows.livejournal.com]

It's worth a shot! Can't hurt more than it does already, can it?

[proudambassador.livejournal.com]

Now I have tried, and it did not hurt, no. But it did not stay pinned. The idea, it was good. I thank you for that.

[desertshadows.livejournal.com]

You're welcome. Sorry it didn't help.

[proudambassador.livejournal.com]

I did not think it would. It is the Tree, yes? But there was a try.

[desertshadows.livejournal.com]

Mm. Yeah, better than just leaving it.

[proudambassador.livejournal.com]

And drinking. It helps everything.

[desertshadows.livejournal.com]

And any improvement is good. [a little doubtful, but it's not his cape]