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Very, very, very bad. Imagine the maximum amount of bad, and then set it on fire. That bad.”
Julian was indeed huge and blond and projecting the general air that he’d just stopped cradling a newborn lamb a moment ago in his strong yet gentle arms and might go back to it if he wasn’t otherwise required for anything.
Avra waved his hand. “Turtle astrology. You know astrology? It’s like that. But regarding turtles. Right? You get it.”
“Some of us,” Avra said mulishly, “were in it because we were bored and unattended and were struck with a whimsical impulse.”
“Markefa,” Avra wailed. “Julian’s calling me dashing and debonair!” “Fighting words,” Markefa called from the desk where Teveri was arguing with the owner about taking rooms. “I ought to draw steel and duel for my boy’s honor.”
Avra scrunched down behind the railings of the fo’c’sle and meeped. Julian looked over at him. “This Tev mood is called ‘I’m not mad, I’m just disappointed, and now everyone has to hear about it.’”
“Yes, I know you don’t really feel like letting him bumble around trying to figure out what the right thing to do is, but may I point out that if you don’t let him try, he won’t ever get it right.”
Lost Inventory: 1 dog (glowing) Added Inventory: 1 dog (glowing), 1 dog (not glowing) Day 16 (addendum #2) Inventory update: 1 dog (glowing), 1 dog (also glowing) WHAT THE FUCK JULIAN.
Speaking as one man to another: Ugh. Men.”
Behind everybody’s sanity mask is someone who is unalloyed batshit in one way or another. This is the truth of human nature, Baltakan.”
would be gracious of you to return the favor. This is, I assure you, a matter of Diplomacy.” “All right,” said Avra dubiously. “Seems like a matter of stubbornly trying to prove a point.” “Sometimes they look very similar.”
The best comedy comes from a place of deep, righteous anger—and as long as you can laugh, there’s still a part of you that’s free.
