XLVIII

[wilder]

[Hi Paradisa, have the sound of a pen tapping against the journal]

[Tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap-]

[Finally the sound stops and there's a melodramatic defeatist groan]

Ugh! Fine I give up!

Hey Paradisa! How are you all?

Tell me, what's a good way to kill a lot of time without going crazy? And please, nothing about reading, training or playing in the snow.

Thank you! ♥

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[wilder]

[Because he can't sleep. Because he closes his eyes to only see red snow and bodies. Because the snow outside causes all the past demons to be stirred, and staying inside too long drives him crazy too]

[All things of course, he can't bring himself to admit]

Heh yeah, something like that.

[msattentionspan]

[Faith could relate... if she knew what he was not coping with.]

I used to do that meditation shit. Which, considering I just called it shit -- you can guess how I feel about it, but it did help with the dead space of time.

[wilder]

[he snorts]

I already have to do it sometimes for my magic. Not sure how I'd feel doing it even more.

[msattentionspan]

Magic? There isn't some speed up the time spell you can do?

[wilder]

[a laugh]

Afraid not. It's just elemental stuff.

[msattentionspan]

Like the weather and shit?

[wilder]

Sorta! Lightning, wind, fire, earth...can never seem to get a handle on water though.

[And don't definitely not ice. Never that.]

[msattentionspan]

Huh.

Are you good at it? Like the other things, not the water part.

[wilder]

Sure! Haven't lit my hair on fire in years!

[msattentionspan]

Yeah, that doesn't exactly sound right.

[wilder]

Oh true me, it isn't! The smell of burnt hair? Sticks for days.

[msattentionspan]

Makes you real careful from then on.

sob that's supposed to be *trust

[wilder]

Oh yeah! It was a real lifelong lesson.

no worries <3

[msattentionspan]

Anyone give you any good ideas?

[wilder]

Well, one friend suggested carving, but I can't help but suspect it's to laugh at my feeble attempts. [Maybe, it's hard to tell with Presea really]

You got any?

[msattentionspan]

I usually drink or go out somewhere trying to find someone to kill time with. Dancing, drinking -- sparring.

Maybe exploring that maze thing that's in the castle.

[wilder]

That's not too different from what I usually do. Though can't say I've sparred a whole lot. [Except with Lloyd anyway]

Oh yeah, that Insolitus thing?

[msattentionspan]

Yeah, I guess people get lost in there for hours.

[wilder]

I've heard that. Wonder if anyone's died in there..........

[msattentionspan]

Wouldn't the castle bring 'm back after two weeks? They'd probably tell people if they died in the maze.

[wilder]

Not if they get sent home during their dead time..!

[msattentionspan]

Yeah, but then it's not our problem, right?

[wilder]

I don't think it is...

Still might make a good ghost story to tell people.

[msattentionspan]

Yeah, but it'd be one we'd never really hear. If they go home, we don't even know they went in there.

[wilder]

Ah, see that's half the fun. Someone else can tell it, and there's no way to verify if it's true or not!

That's half the fun of ghost stories!