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[drinkswithminors]

-Amidst new visitor time, the vine has picked up another new person! One that... Well she doesn't quite look like a girl at first, but we're sure most of the viewers will assume she just has a boyish look. It's easier to imagine than the Queen suddenly bringing a boy.

She lays on the grass, seemingly unaware she's being watched. Her jacket is off, balled up behind her as a makeshift headrest. She has the scroll in her hand, and she just seems to be watching the sky...-

I think... I have a hangover...

-To say the least.-

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[drinkswithminors]

... So I'm not just hungover. I must be high.

[mutation_is_great]

Be as that might be, one might as well enjoy ones time in the Gardens. While some rather distressing incidents can happen here, for the largest part it's a pleasant place. In some ways safer than my home. While I have many vexations and grievances against she who styles herself as the Queen of Heart, I would rather focus on the upsides of this situation. In large part due to lack of opportunity and capability to escape by my own will.

[drinkswithminors]

That's all well and good, but you seem to missed the part where I said I was stoned out of my mind. Because there's absolutely no way that you, or any of this, is real.

[mutation_is_great]

I hold it in great confidence that either you will wake up, or in time you will disabuse yourself of that notion due to it lasting far too long and being too real. Of course, I'm pretty assured the latter will occur, but you can choose to think of it that way to make it easier upon yourself.

In the meantime, why not enjoy the experience insofar as you can?

[drinkswithminors]

... Guess I don't have much choice, regardless.

[mutation_is_great]

When we are thrown into the currents, sometimes we can only swim with them and hope they take us somewhere good.

[drinkswithminors]

You sound like a Buddhist.

[mutation_is_great]

A Buddhist? Pray tell, what might that be?

[drinkswithminors]

Eh, nothing you need to worry about, I guess.

Anyways, my name's Akira. Satou Akira. Yours?

[mutation_is_great]

I am Melia, a priestess of Zephyr.

[drinkswithminors]

A priestess, eh? I'm a lawyer, myself. Almost opposite ends of the moral spectrum, according to some cynical folk, ha ha!

Not me, though. I can dig it. I was raised Catholic, after all.

[mutation_is_great]

Opposite ends of the moral spectrum?

[drinkswithminors]

It's a joke, Melia.

[mutation_is_great]

So, lawyer, mmhmm? That's a honorable profession. [Her tone is quite sincere.]

[drinkswithminors]

To some, I'm sure. To others, we're scoundrels and thieves.

[mutation_is_great]

I'd heard the legal professions were held in less high regard in other regions, and it seems, other worlds.

[drinkswithminors]

Eh. It's a living.

[mutation_is_great]

I suppose that would be the norm for lands where the profession is not directly overseen by a god with a great love for justice and fairness.

[drinkswithminors]

I never had much taste for any kind of god, personally.

[mutation_is_great]

With all certainty, Circle is a just and fair go. But I far prefer Zephyr, she who I have devoted myself to, for she brings merriment with her.

[drinkswithminors]

Multiple gods, eh? Like the Shinto?

[mutation_is_great]

Oh, are there people that worship single gods? That must be troublesome unless the god is great enough by their own selves to prevent others' meddling. Or do gods not make themselves openly known where you come from? I have heard of such worlds.

[drinkswithminors]

I wouldn't know. I'm not much for religion.

[mutation_is_great]

The gods of your world must act particularly subtly.

[drinkswithminors]

They don't act at all. The entire thing is based on faith.