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[welljustwatchme.livejournal.com]

[Chocolates were supposed to be harmless, weren't they? So it was something else making her feel like this, all warm and needy and stupidly French. Tabernac. Home, it would be easy enough to get rid of this feeling. There were always things to do -- sports or even just going for a long walk in the snow. Nothing like piles and piles or snow or a good shootout to get your mind off of dirty things.

And so that's why Maggie's in a stream. Not on the bank or floating down it or anything like that, just standing there with water up to her knees, the bottom of her skirt wet from every time she bends over to pet one of the colourful fish in the stream.

She's well aware it's not dignified in the slighest but honestly, the thoughts in her mind right now need to go.]

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[welljustwatchme.livejournal.com]

I mean Germans.

[esoteric_rose.livejournal.com]

What did they do? As far I know the relations have always been pleasant...ever since George the First the royal families have intermarried...

[welljustwatchme.livejournal.com]

What year are you from? Germany hasn't really gotten along with the Western powers since the Holy Roman Empire fell.

[esoteric_rose.livejournal.com]

1888.

...You're another from the future, aren't you?

[welljustwatchme.livejournal.com]

1970. Sorry, Grell, the worst is yet to come.

[esoteric_rose.livejournal.com]

Another reason to stay, then. I don't want to watch the country fall to pieces.

[welljustwatchme.livejournal.com]

You wouldn't really want to stay that long, would you? Wouldn't you miss your home or your family?

[esoteric_rose.livejournal.com]

Do you want the uncensored truth, or the version that soothes?

[welljustwatchme.livejournal.com]

Uncensored's fine.

[esoteric_rose.livejournal.com]

I have no family. I have few I can even consider friends. My home is with myself, because my heart stays with me. If the humans panic and set their world alight, I feel but the tragedy of the spectator as such a drama plays out. Time means nothing to me, I almost consider myself to live outside of it with how little it impacts me other than watching flowers bloom, seasons change, ideas run their course.

[welljustwatchme.livejournal.com]

What are you, if you don't mind my asking?

[esoteric_rose.livejournal.com]

A grim reaper. One on leave for the moment.

[She says it casually, unafraid to admit it. Maggie revealed that she's a nation, she owes her that much.]

[welljustwatchme.livejournal.com]

Ah, fascinating. I don't think I've met one of your kind before.

[esoteric_rose.livejournal.com]

Then we're doing our job. We're supposed to remain hidden, mainly, but I don't see the point here.

[welljustwatchme.livejournal.com]

Most Nations don't tend to interact with their people without using a more appropriate human name, so I know how that goes. It's almost odd that everyone here knows the others by our real names.

[esoteric_rose.livejournal.com]

I suppose that when you're carried off to another realm covert affairs in your own don't matter as much as solving the logistics of how you got here in the first place.

[welljustwatchme.livejournal.com]

Precisely. Though I have to admit I'm a bit jealous everyone else seems to have citizens here. Well, perhaps not Italy... America and France and England, obviously, though.

[esoteric_rose.livejournal.com]

Perhaps you do have them, they just haven't made their nationality known yet.

[welljustwatchme.livejournal.com]

I suppose you do have a point.

[esoteric_rose.livejournal.com]

[You seem down. And her mission was to cure that today! She stands up, smiling gently.]

...May I hug you?

[welljustwatchme.livejournal.com]

Umm. Thank you, but you don't have to do that.

[esoteric_rose.livejournal.com]

But you seem so down...hugs tend to make that go away, I've found.

[welljustwatchme.livejournal.com]

Yes, but I'm not... really feeling... well.

[esoteric_rose.livejournal.com]

Even more a reason for a hug.

[welljustwatchme.livejournal.com]

I do appreciate the thought. I just... worry a hug will make me feel worse, is all.