homophonic ❆ wolfwood

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wolfwood

Of course I missed you.

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[SHE HAS A BIRTHDAY BUT NOT AN AGE, GENSHIN IMPACT IS A FUCK]

I don't celebrate it, really. It's just any other day.

[crucifer]

Why not?

Sure, with infinite people, there's infinite special March 10ths, but for you, it's one out of 365.

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I don't think that I need to be celebrated.

... I don't even know how old I am.

[crucifer]

...You done your secret exchanges yet?

[ Suddenly. ]

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[she looks vaguely amused.]

Why?

[crucifer]

Just remembered those were a thing, and it came to mind.

If you already have and don't need it, then forget it.

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I haven't. [she tilts her head.] I don't have any secrets.

[crucifer]

Not even secret opinions about somebody you don't want to say out loud?

Dreams, things you wish you could do?

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... No. [she tilts her head. she doesn't really stop herself from saying things out loud.] Do dreams count as secrets?

[crucifer]

Why not, it'll be kind of like a secret to me.

[ Flurry just resigned to tell the mods to force Shenhe into a dunce cap next week because Shenhe will say anything. ]

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[help i went to the mods like "she didn't do the secret" and then jan was like live in suspense so i guess that's how it be

anyway she thinks about that for like, a good thirty seconds. and then:] Ah.

[crucifer]

[ Shenhe week-long nausea... ]

You thought of something?

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No. I don't have any of those, either.

[help me]

[crucifer]

Jesus, girlie. You better come up with something, I'm getting worried for you. We don't know what happens if you don't follow the rule.

[ OOCly we know Shenhe isn't going to straight explode probably. ICly though?? ]

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[it'd be so funny if the mods got up monday and was like anyway shenhe is dead

she eats her frozen yogurt, thinking.

and then, finally, hesitantly:] ... Will you keep the secret, if I tell you it?

[crucifer]

Yeah, 'course. I'm never gonna air out someone else's dirty laundry like that.

...It's a saying, it just means yeah, I'll keep it.

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[the way she's trained people to have to actually explain sayings is so funny. she actually does pause to try and fathom the dirty laundry bit, but. after a moment:]

... When I was a child, I was to be made a sacrifice for a monster. I was five.

[crucifer]

[ Shenhe can be privy to a brief, but a full gamut of emotions behind those shaded eyes if she looks -- surprise, shock, and then a deep anger and disgust on her behalf. ]

Why the hell would they do that?

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There was someone else they wanted to be alive more than me.

[she says it simply, easy.] It didn't matter in the end. I didn't die.

[crucifer]

[ He hates that it's easy for her to say. He doesn't hide the bitterness in his expression, the sour. ]

I killed a man for exploiting kids like that.

[ He just throws that out there, like shoving it out of himself before he decides to change his mind. ]

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Good.

[no judgement, no disappointment, just - yeah. good.]

... Thank you.

[crucifer]

...That's my secret back. I don't like leaving things unbalanced.

[ Doing the mental equivalent of basically patting down his own ruffled feathers. ]

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[it's not touch week anymore - it's way past it, but. he's mentally unruffling his feathers, and she very carefully and lightly reaches to touch his arm.]

You didn't need to, but I appreciate it. [...] I hope that counts. I don't know that it's a secret so much as I don't tell people because it upsets them.

[crucifer]

[ He stills, very much like when an animal is suddenly touched and becomes wary, but doesn't flee or push back. ]

It's what I wanted to. Like I said, I don't like leaving things unbalanced.

[ All he does is take. If he can do anything at all, starting small, it's give back so there's no imbalance. ]

I'd consider a piece of the past to be a secret.

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[she understands the tension, because she does it too - she doesn't pull away, but she doesn't push any further.]

Then I suppose I'll be fine for the upcoming week. [...] I don't like leaving things unbalanced either.

Do you think there will be another rule?