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]

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?

[assassino]

My father was framed for a crime he did not commit, and both my brothers were executed simply to make a point.. My mother was violated, my sister frightened, and our family seat overturned. It all happened as a small part of a greater conspiracy. Killing one of the conspirators wouldn't have stopped them, nor kept what is left of my family safe from further harm.

Ten years later, there's only one left to assassinate.

[molotov]

And what has your family done to deserve being made a point of?

[assassino]

My father was unravelling the conspiracy himself.

[But he doesn't know much more than that, and he hates it.]

[molotov]

Unfortunate. At least you have been able to avenge your family.