homophonic ❆ alex

[bindings]

alex

I'll tell you when you're being weird.

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w0, SATURDAY

[bindings]

[good morning alex, shenhe is out in the world! you might miss her normally, because she's pretty good at staying hidden, but the music that is playing from the tree that she's set up in is pretty attention grabbing. at the moment it's this just blaring from the top of a small tree.

you might be able to see her foot swaying back and forth absently from the bottom of the branches.]

[camena]

[ abrupt classical music is a little startling??? but being able to place where it's coming from helps.

alex wanders under the tree and tips her head back. ]

Hey up there.

[bindings]

[hey! she's up here! she's chewing on a flower. or rather, a collection of flower petals.]

Hello. [she says, after she's swallowed. a pause.] Alex.

[that is her name, yes.]

[camena]

That's me.

[ ....................... ]

Are you eating flowers?

[bindings]

[oh you know]

Yes. [a beat.] You are saying this the way people say things to me when my behavior is abnormal.

[camena]

Well. Plenty of flowers are edible, technically, but...

You know there's like a McDonald's, right?

[bindings]

[wrinkles her nose.]

The... nuggets, made me feel ill. [it's so much grease for a girl who lives off medicinal herbs]

[camena]

Oh, right. I guess it's probably a bit much if your stomach isn't, like, trained to handle fast food.

[bindings]

[a pause.]

Fast food? Is there a particular method to catching the chicken that you must know before consuming it?

[camena]

It's just called that because they make it really fast. The whole process is super streamlined.

... But not exactly healthy.

[bindings]

[she is baffled by this but she accepts it.]

And you still choose to eat it?

[camena]

I have trained long and hard since childhood. My body can take it.

[bindings]

Impressive.

[she says this with such sincerity.]

I suppose I will need to do the same. There are no animals to hunt here that I've seen.

[camena]

Yeah, there's usually not much hunting in, like... Cities...

[bindings]

My Master informed me mortals don't like it when you chase beasts into the city square, no.

[camena]

[ there are multiple concerning things there ]

They were right.

[bindings]

[help]

She doesn't often steer me wrong.

Never tell her I said this.

[camena]

Don't think I could if I tried. Is she, like, here even?

[bindings]

I hope she is not. [...] Though if she was I would know. I would hear her.

[camena]

[ it's day two and she knows better than to question that. ]

Fair enough. [ since here equals. dead. ]

She have a big ego or something?

[bindings]

In a sense. [ego is half right.] In her mind she is always correct. And you cannot tell her if she isn't, because she will not let you slip a word in edgewise.

[camena]

Ha. I know people like that.

[bindings]

Frustrating, aren't they? [...] But I do respect her greatly.

[camena]

[ she nods. they truly are. ]

Well, sure. She wouldn't be your "Master" otherwise, right?

[bindings]

[a little nod.]

She took me in when I was young. It's hard to be anything but grateful.