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]

It is more or less implied that that part will come after the pictures.

[assassino]

I don't get it.

[molotov]

Is sex that sad and clinical for women in your time?

[assassino]

[... Laugh]

Not for the women I sleep with, but I thought we were talking about science, not lovemaking.

[molotov]

We are. I made a joke and then you caught me off-guard.

[assassino]

I see.

[Grins.]

And why did you have these issues?

[molotov]

I was being helpful and disposing of them for my fiance.

[assassino]

Oh, they were his?

[molotov]

Da.

[assassino]

I suppose he would not want them anymore, seeing as he will have a wife soon.

[molotov]

Actually, I have no doubt he would have wanted to keep them. All the more reason to throw them away.

[assassino]

[He thinks about that for a moment.]

If men and women are equal, are women permitted to keep lovers on the side, as men are?

[molotov]

Hm, that would be frowned on for anyone to do. But women are just as capable of it as men are. I am sure that women are just as prone to dalliances in your time.

[assassino]

Well, yes, but they get in trouble for it. Men only get in trouble for it when their wives hire me.

Nevertheless, that pleases me. My parents did not see other men or women. Our family was happier for it.

[molotov]

That sounds less like men are permitted and more like most women do not have a way to retaliate.

It is not as if being unfaithful has disappeared. But now that women are not condemned to being property, it is very easy for a woman to leave a man who sleeps with other women. It is an incentive for everyone to stay loyal.

[assassino]

[Pause]

I suppose that is true. But I enjoy sending the scoundrels running home. They do not step out on their wives again after that.

So you would leave Samson if he were to be unfaithful?

[molotov]

I would not only leave him, I would also kill both him and the woman involved.

[assassino]

[Nod.]

Why kill the other woman?

[molotov]

Because no one plays with my toys without permission and gets away with it.

[assassino]

What if she did not know?

[molotov]

I cannot say it would matter very much.

[assassino]

When I beat up dogs who stray from their wives, I leave the women alone. They have little power, I cannot begrudge them for looking for the attentions of a man. But if in your time women are equal, does this mean violence towards women is as permissible as violence against men?

[molotov]

Nyet. But I can begrudge a woman for seeking the attentions of my man.

[assassino]

But if she did not know, she cannot be held responsible, and if you kill your... man... [Why is "your woman" natural-sounding to him but "your man" isn't?] ... then she cannot seek attentions from him any longer. What good would it serve to kill her, aside from your own comfort?

[molotov]

In that situation, what does anything outside of my own comfort matter?