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[handleyourshit]

  

This is Rosita.  I'll hit you back when I can.

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Re: audio;

[handleyourshit]

Are you really surprised that a relationship built solely because some asshole arbitrarily assigned one person to mind the other one isn't really successful?

Re: audio;

[manavore]

I prefer to operate on a more "you get what you give" ideal. If the attitude is to not jump in head first and try, then, no, it's hardly surprising it won't work out. But an attempt ought to be made before failure is declared.

Re: audio;

[handleyourshit]

Yes. You get what you give.

And you're here as an inmate's assigned temporary warden.

Re: audio;

[manavore]

I see no reason not to treat it as though it were a permanent assignment, but I also see no reason in pushing you into such an agreement. It's meant to be a partnership, after all.

Re: audio;

[handleyourshit]

You're fucking kidding.

Partnership?

Re: audio;

[manavore]

Of course.

Re: audio;

[handleyourshit]

Partnerships can only happen between equals.

We're not.

Re: audio;

[manavore]

A fact which I regret and cannot change, nor can I claim to understand why I've ended up on this side of things and not the other, but success is futile if the pairing won't work together.

Re: audio;

[handleyourshit]

What do you count a success?

Re: audio;

[manavore]

Myself and whoever I'm paired with coming out the other side with what we both want.

Re: audio;

[handleyourshit]

What I want is to be left alone.

Re: audio;

[manavore]

Then you shan't hear from me again. Thank you for the conversation.

Re: audio;

[handleyourshit]

Until the next stabbing, then.

audio; A Day Later

[handleyourshit]

[She isn't sorry, not really. Someday maybe but she doesn't have the energy right now.

The problem is, she promised Jesus she'd try. And regardless of her assessment of the situation, of its likely outcome, she does still want to be someone who keeps her word.

So, a day or so later, out of nowhere:]

I hate this system.

Re: audio

[manavore]

( Oh.

Well.

This is an unexpected but not entirely unwelcome surprise. )

It certainly has its flaws, to be sure.

Re: audio

[handleyourshit]

It is a flaw, start to finish.

Nothing about it is sustainable, except that no one can push back against the Admiral, which makes it a dictatorship.

Re: audio

[manavore]

A trait all cosmic beings seem to share. At least the Admirable seems to have an interest in preserving those here. Some in his position would just leave us to die.

Re: audio

[handleyourshit]

All living things die.

There's a time and a place for it.

Re: audio

[manavore]

Of course. But some beings would be less invested.