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[rueandwolf.livejournal.com]

[Lithuania had been forced to make a run in the sudden rain to the nearest building that didn't look like it was falling apart, and so had ended up in the library with Leafeon close on her heels. There were worse places to spend a storm, she supposed, once you got over the strange selection of books and ignored the books on sex in favor of the poetry collections.

She moved a large chair near to a window and is sitting there. There's a large pile of books beside the chair within easy reach, but she's ignoring those in favor of staring out the window at the rain. There's a half-finished Emily Dickinson collection on her lap.

Leafeon, for the record, is perched on the back of the armchair like a cat.]

It's lasting a long time, for a storm.

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[rueandwolf.livejournal.com]

I'm waiting for an opportunity.

[That should be familiar to Russia.]

If there's some way to exploit the things that happen here. Inattention, or some unintended side effect of something the Queen does... Anything.

[ussher.livejournal.com]

How clever! I hope your little plan is working well. [She smiles but as usual it does not seem genuine. Undoubtedly she is wondering whether Lithuania still intends to change her own future.]

And so observant too. [Russia wouldn't know a thing about exploitation of course......]

[rueandwolf.livejournal.com]

[Her plans on changing the future are what keep her civil with you, Russia.]

Something will happen, and then I'll push them and see if I can at least force their hand.

[ussher.livejournal.com]

[The smile she gives Lithuania after that is... a little patronizing.] Very clever! I hope it does not ah, backfire?

[rueandwolf.livejournal.com]

[Lithuania bristles a bit.]

I doubt I'll succeed the first time. But if I can force them to react, I know they can be made to do so. If they're all-powerful, they shouldn't make any sort of mistake and shouldn't have to act based on what I do. But I doubt they are.

[Familiar, Russia?]

[ussher.livejournal.com]

And if they are reacting with anger? Punishing you?

[rueandwolf.livejournal.com]

Then that means I struck a nerve.

[ussher.livejournal.com]

You have strange ideas, Litva! Ah, it is all right. A way to pass the time.

[rueandwolf.livejournal.com]

It's better than doing nothing, unless you've decided you'd rather be kept in a cage.

[ussher.livejournal.com]

It is not a cage. It is a Garden.

[rueandwolf.livejournal.com]

It is a prison all the same.

[ussher.livejournal.com]

I do not think so. [She smiles, and turns to walk away, humming softly.]