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[workaphilic]

[It's very, very late when the journal opens. Or very early, depending on your perspective. But there's none of the grate to his voice that usually accompanies his insomnia; instead he sounds lively, nearly amicable.]

Rise and shine, residents. Don't complain, if you're awake now you either were before I started or you're stupid enough to leave your journal open when you sleep.

[Gladstone whines in the background.]

Shut up, you don't get to complain either, after all you've put me through.

[In the background: noise of cabinets, and food (or something, it can be hard to tell with him) tumbling into a bowl.]

Here is my question, Paradisa:

How much worse could it get?

[A pause, and something occurs to him. He continues, now with his mouth full.]

I'm not being rhetorical. It's not the preface to an uplifting speech, either. Really think, and really answer. It's important.

Comments

[schrodingersghost]

Well, its mostly about how I'm here and not at home.

[workaphilic]

That miserable?

[schrodingersghost]

Less likely to be town apart molecule by molecule. And then experimented on.

[workaphilic]

You don't call this experimentation?

[schrodingersghost]

I've only seen one scalpel in the last year, so no.

[workaphilic]

Then you should work on expanding your definitions.

[schrodingersghost]

Hey, just let me be happy at NOT living under the threat of dissection for once. Okay?

[workaphilic]

Why should I?

[schrodingersghost]

Can I appeal to your sense of humanity?

[workaphilic]

Letting you wallow in a stupid and dangerous delusion is humanity.

[It's a question, even if it isn't properly inflected as one.]

[schrodingersghost]

Yes. [Danny had had a lot of practice in ignoring comments like that.]

[workaphilic]

Then you have bigger things to worry about than my phrasing.

[schrodingersghost]

Like what?

[workaphilic]

Your priorities, for one.

[schrodingersghost]

My priorities are fine.

[workaphilic]

Exactly.

Not my problem, though. You're free to delude yourself how you will.