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[workaphilic]

[ Anyone Looking for Accommodations in the City Royale ]

[There's an address written in.]

Rent's paid through next month. Take it, I don't care. Landlord will be thrilled, I'm sure.

If there's more than one of you, settle it yourselves.

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Quite the entertainer, our Paradisa. Parties and festivals and carnivals and balls. Don't know how you're not all sick of them, they happen frequently enough.

[He doesn't sound that bothered, though. In fact, there's a distinct upward swing to his tone. Someone's in a good mood for the first time in a long, long while.

There's a pause, and his voice starts to wander like he's splitting his attention.]

Still, can't complain. This one has the potential to be decently interesting. Ah, excellent.

[There's faint hissing in the background, from what sounds to be at least two or three of the fairies.]

Oh, be quiet. That's hardly the worst I could have done.

Comments

[onlyanapple]

Leonardo Da Vinci is one of the most important human beings in existence. And this is coming from a demon who's seen them all.

[workaphilic]

[challenging:]

Why?

[onlyanapple]

Read a book. Or hey, use Gooogle.

[workaphilic]

If that's your answer, then he isn't important.

[onlyanapple]

He's done too much for me to list. Don't excuse your laziness for unimportance.

[workaphilic]

No, that's my point. If it's something that can be Googled, there's too much information, and I don't expend my resources on information that isn't useful. I'm not asking why he's important to society [he says the word like it's not worth his breath], I'm asking why he's important to me.

My guess is, he isn't.

[onlyanapple]

Have you ever boarded an aeroplane?

[workaphilic]

I don't need to know the history of the aeroplane in order to be cleared to ride on one. Next.

[onlyanapple]

The Mona Lisa?

[workaphilic]

Heard of it. Never needed to know the original artist.

[onlyanapple]

You don't think history is important?

[workaphilic]

I think some history is important. Like everything else.

[onlyanapple]

And it's exactly that sort of reasoning which means humanity is doomed to repeat its mistakes to the end of the species pitiful existence.

[workaphilic]

And? [did you mistake him for someone who gives a shit about humanity, or...] Let me know when the mistakes of humanity have any bearing whatsoever on me or my work. Until then, I'll do as I please.

[onlyanapple]

[Sherlock you give him a headache]

Sorry, I forgot you were your own special species for a second there.

[workaphilic]

Not my responsibility to make sure humanity doesn't destroy itself.

That was going to happen anyway.

[onlyanapple]

Not really. Humans crawl out of all kinds of messes.

[workaphilic]

You're underestimating how much people enjoy killing each other.

[onlyanapple]

Not at all. I'm including that, too.

[workaphilic]

You've a lot of faith for a demon.

[onlyanapple]

I'm aware. It's one of my weaknesses.

[workaphilic]

Touching.

[It's probably meant to be derisive, but it doesn't exactly come out that way. It's vaguer, like he's making an observation while his mind is wandering.]

[onlyanapple]

...Are you even listening any more.

[workaphilic]

[He hums. It's not really an affirmative or a negative.

There's a pause.]

What? Yes. [Still that wandering, half-there tone, though.] Go on, we were talking about how you're bad at what you do.

[onlyanapple]

[Sherlock NO]

...No we weren't.