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[signedlefthanded]

Maybe it's because I've never had a significant other, but I honestly do not see the point in Valentine's Day. And people have told me in the future it is far more commercialized. If you truly care about someone, shouldn't you show this at every opportunity and not just one day a year?

I understand everyone likes to feel appreciated, but perhaps I'm too logical in this. I think I would rather something personal. But then I've also never been on a date. I have yet to even consider the psychological aspect of an intimate relationship like that.

Perhaps I shall look into that as well. [Because she needs a break between reading biochem technology books and learning computer code.]

Comments

[signedlefthanded]

You just sort of deal with them and wait for it to be over.

[arealwoman]

What about when it's happening? Do you know what's going on?

[signedlefthanded]

Not always. Usually someone around you will notice though.

[arealwoman]

Let's hope it's a while before anything happens then.

[signedlefthanded]

I'm actually due for one. It's been a few months since I hallucinated blood.

[arealwoman]

I wouldn't say that anyone was 'due' for this.

[signedlefthanded]

It's kind of cyclical. Every few months, something happens.

[arealwoman]

Maybe you could stop it somehow.

[signedlefthanded]

No one's figured a way. It's the castle.

[arealwoman]

That doesn't mean you couldn't try. You're just giving up otherwise.

[signedlefthanded]

I haven't given up. I'm just at a loss as what to do.

[arealwoman]

What about the others here? You could get with them, try and figure something out.

[signedlefthanded]

I've been talking to some pretty smart and powerful people the last eight months I've been here.

[arealwoman]

But you're all still stuck here.

[signedlefthanded]

Some have been here for years.

[arealwoman]

Then maybe you're talking to the wrong people.

[signedlefthanded]

I don't think anyone knows how to beat the castle. Or we wouldn't be here.

[arealwoman]

You just said you'd spoken to smart people. Has anyone even tried the opposite?

[signedlefthanded]

What? Adjusting. Because there've been people here for three years. And that's just us. I talked to a woman who'd been here for eighty years.

[arealwoman]

No, looking at something not so smart.

[signedlefthanded]

How would that help?

[arealwoman]

It's probably the only thing you haven't looked at.

[signedlefthanded]

I don't see how it's relevant if someone doesn't have any idea what they're talking about.

[arealwoman]

They would understand it as the idea would be theirs. They might find something that other people could have overlooked as it's 'too simple'.

[signedlefthanded]

Doesn't seem logical. No idea is ever really simple.