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[dicey]

[see Vriska sitting on a clinic bed, covered in burns and bandages and looking at the PCD with a grin that is probably a bit too self-satisfied for someone in her position]

Miss me, Adstringendum? Wait, don't bother saying anything; of course you did!

I guess I can give this place a hand. These clinic things really aren't that bad! If you get hurt on Alternia you're pretty much on your own, and it's not like I couldn't have handled this by myself, but maybe "medicine" and "doctors" aren't a completely pointless invention. But now that I can move, I'm leaving! I don't want anyone stealing my hive.

If anyone's tried while I've been gone, you'd better be prepared to be kicked out.

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[eightshoutpoles.livejournal.com]

Yup! He was in his body.

[capuletnomore]

If Riku knows Axel, it is possible he also knows Laxrene. We may learn more of her from him.

[eightshoutpoles.livejournal.com]

Like Riku would actually do anything useful! He's been trying to piss me off since I first got here.

[capuletnomore]

Riku is a dear friend to me. I shall ask him for you, if he will not tell you himself.

[eightshoutpoles.livejournal.com]

Holy shit, you're friends with everybody. ... Except Karkat.

[capuletnomore]

[She giggles at that.]

I would not say that I am friends with everyone, but I have been here many months and have met many people, some of whom I hold very dear.

[eightshoutpoles.livejournal.com]

What's Riku's deal?

[capuletnomore]

I understand not what you mean, I am afraid.

[Slang, she does not know it well.]

[eightshoutpoles.livejournal.com]

He's always being hostile and trying to pick fights! That's why I helped Axel dress his body up, hahaha.

[capuletnomore]

Riku...can be slow to trust people. And sometimes his manner can be abrupt. But he has a good heart, and wishes his friends to be happy.

[She smiles.]

He was one of Bubbles' many lusi when she was here. She would fly between our two houses, so she could visit with him, Hanna, and Galahad, and also with myself and Tybalt, and then with myself and Spike, when I moved to Spike's house for a time.

[eightshoutpoles.livejournal.com]

How many did she have to have, anyway? She didn't seem that much younger than me.

[capuletnomore]

At first, it was only me. But she was such a precocious child, and so endearing, that many chose to become her lusus. And she would call them "papa" and "mama", the way I call those whom I consider family my brothers and sisters. I considered her more my daughter than my ward.

She was five, and small for her age.

[eightshoutpoles.livejournal.com]

Oh, five human years? I guess I am older than her; I'm like twelve.

[capuletnomore]

[Nod.]

Five human years, yes.

You are twelve in human years or in troll years? You always seem much older than twelve.

[Says the seventeen year old.]

[eightshoutpoles.livejournal.com]

I don't know, I guess. We figured out awhile ago that human years are probably about half as long as Alternian solar sweeps, and I'm six sweeps, so...

[capuletnomore]

That makes sense.

[As much sense as anything relating to time does to her. At least this is simple mathematics, unlike trying to determine a year for Lord Saxon.]

When, then, will your next birthday be? We must celebrate.

[eightshoutpoles.livejournal.com]

Wriggling day; we aren't born. And noooooooo idea. The seasons here are totally different!

[capuletnomore]

Wriggling day, yes. Forgive me.

Perhaps the Doctor or Lord Saxon could help determine it? If anyone could determine the equivalences of seasons, it would be the Lords of Time.

[eightshoutpoles.livejournal.com]

What do you do to celebrate them, anyway?

[capuletnomore]

We eat sweet things and give a gift to the one whose birthday we celebrate, in honor of their life. Something from the heart, that the other will enjoy. Often times, we have a party - a feast or a ball.

[eightshoutpoles.livejournal.com]

My lusus and I never really did anything like that.

[capuletnomore]

What did you do to celebrate a Wriggling Day?

[eightshoutpoles.livejournal.com]

Not much! By the time I was four or so she got too big to move around much. She never left her cavern.

[capuletnomore]

Then we shall most certainly have to have a celebration for your next Wriggling Day.

How long had it been since your last one before you arrived to this place?

[eightshoutpoles.livejournal.com]

Not long! Maybe a couple of your human "months"?