034 || written;

[workaphilic]

[It's some ungodly hour of the morning when a note appears in the journal, for fellow insomniacs or information gluttons who like to read new entries first thing. There's barely any ambient sound recorded; just faint bubbling from a nearby experiment, and the scratch of pen on paper.

(Whether that's out of respect for sleeping residents or something else, well. It's not that hard to say, with him.)]

What are you getting out of this arrangement?

If your first instinct is to say 'nothing,' don't bother. You obviously haven't been paying attention, and I'm not interested in being subjected to your blather. Keep your ignorant bliss to yourself.

The rest of you: there must be something. Paradisa wouldn't bother with you otherwise. If a portal appeared in the lobby tomorrow, ready to whisk you back to your world, your time, your life -- what would be the thing that kept you from stepping through it?

Don't be boring.

SH

((Tags will be slow! Thanks for your patience, everyone.))

Comments

[whistles_the_blues]

Being able to function here is reason enough.

written;

[workaphilic]

There's a euphemism I hadn't heard before.

Written;

[whistles_the_blues]

Maybe it's not one. Maybe I'm machine that doesn't work where I came from.

[workaphilic]

Not a euphemism, then. The meaning is still the same.

[whistles_the_blues]

True enough.

...Just why are you so curious about this? What would stop you from leaving?

[workaphilic]

How did you put it?

Able to function.

[whistles_the_blues]

Those are the words I used.

[workaphilic]

And my meaning is the same.

[whistles_the_blues]

Hm. I've met a couple others in our situation.

[workaphilic]

There's plenty. It's hardly an uncommon condition.

[whistles_the_blues]

Well I can see why it stop others from wanting to return to where they came from.

[workaphilic]

It's an easy answer, and a boring one.

[whistles_the_blues]

So you think you're boring? Good to know.

[workaphilic]

I answered your question, not mine.

[whistles_the_blues]

Duly noted.