WINTER WRAP-UP!

[rarities]

[Good morning, Paradisa! You know what today is. That's right, it's WINTER WRAP-UP!!! Now that you've gotten your note about your task -- put on your coats, scarves, and gloves, and get to work!]

CASTLE SHOVELING | CLOUD MOVING | WILDLIFE AWAKENING | PUTTING OUT THE FIRES | ICE SCORING | CASTLE SEED PLANTING | BIRD DIRECTING | BIRD NESTS | TOWER CLEANING | CITY STREET PLOWING | CITY FOOD PLANTING | ORGANIZATION TEAM

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Comments

[molotov]

There are many real world issues that are rare to discuss in Paradisa. The debt crisis, the obesity epidemic, Somali pirates.

[assassino]

[Wha...]

Well, I am not surprised at obesity being a problem. The people of the future live on such decadent terms. In my time, only the extremely rich could afford enough food to be fat.

[molotov]

It is the opposite in my time. The wealthy tend to be thinner.

[assassino]

Why?

[molotov]

Because organic, healthy foods cost more money than high-fat, high-sugar junk food. The wealthy also generally have more free time in which to visit gyms and do physical activity.

[assassino]

[Talk about a reversal.]

Sugar is an expensive commodity, and the poor are more likely to be labourers and farmers... I do not understand how it could be the opposite.

[molotov]

Sugar has been made cheap in my time, and most farming and labor is done by machinery.

[assassino]

Interesting.

They must be complicated machines.

[molotov]

It is really nothing I am an expert on -- the village I grew up in was very old-fashioned, and what was farmed was farmed by hand. [Not that it was a lot because lol tundra]

I have not been on a farm since.

[assassino]

[That's a lot of social mobility...]

And you chose to leave the farm?

[molotov]

My father was in the government, so we had to move to Moscow.

[assassino]

That was fortunate. Farming is poverty, in my time.

[molotov]

The village I came from was very small and poor. But we left when I was very young, so that Papa could return to work and so that I could train.

[assassino]

Were you not given a choice in your training?

[molotov]

I displayed a talent for gymnastics as a child, so I trained and went to the Olympics. I did not win gold, so I decided that I wanted to follow in my father's footsteps. I was a full government agent by sixteen.

[assassino]

I see... [Half of that makes no sense, girl]

You never considered another path?

[molotov]

I did, once. [For about five minutes] But that was long after I was already an accomplished athlete, and even after I was an assassin. Most people do not decide their lives as young as I did. I am lucky that it worked out.

[assassino]

It is very fortunate.

In my time, it is very rare to be able to choose.

[molotov]

You were born into a line of assassins?

[assassino]

Yes, I was... though I did not know it until I became an assassin myself.

[molotov]

How could you not know that? How did you become an assassin without knowing?

[assassino]

My father elected to keep it from me until I was mature enough to understand, but he was executed when I was seventeen. His friends and my uncle saw to my training and informed me of our family's legacy.

[molotov]

But if you did not know, what made you decide to pursue such a life?

[assassino]

[Pause.]

Revenge.

[molotov]

What strain of revenge could possibly have driven you to a career instead of garden-variety murder?