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[sinspawn]

[Tidus tries to look like he doesn't care. He fails spectacularly and just appears agitated instead.]

This place does have a pool somewhere...right?

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[wayoutsidethebox]

[One shoulder shrugs.] Sometimes. Not in this pool, since swimming and snow don't go well together.

[sinspawn]

How do you know? Have you ever tried it?

[wayoutsidethebox]

No, but have you ever tried wearing a swimsuit in freezing weather?

[sinspawn]

Sure, all the time. You get used to it.

[wayoutsidethebox]

You know what's even better? Swimming when there's the warm kind of sun.

[sinspawn]

Of course that's better. Everything comes to life then, and it's all sunny and everyone's doing something and it's just better.

[wayoutsidethebox]

But you're impatient enough that you're willing to become a Popsicle?

[sinspawn]

Sure. I've always wondered what popsicles feel like.

[wayoutsidethebox]

Is that something you've spent a lot of time wondering? You know, just what it would be like to be frozen food?

[sinspawn]

Not a lot of time, but sometimes when it gets late at night, I start to think about why I exist and stuff and it ends up going in that direction.

[wayoutsidethebox]

You think you exist to be a Popsicle? Ever aim for anything higher? Pastries, maybe?

[sinspawn]

But people just leave pastries out thinking they'll be okay and then they eat them with their hands and wipe the rest off and there would be pieces of me everywhere and I'm not sure how I feel about that.

How about something really expensive for someone to waste a small fortune on? Or something popular. Like waffles.

[wayoutsidethebox]

[Is she really having this conversation?]

You get the syrup, which is a bonus. And you wouldn't turn to liquid if somebody loses interest. Not sure I'd classify them as expensive.

Me? I always aimed to be a human with a career but big dreams, you know?

[sinspawn]

[yes she is.]

And there are a lot of flavors of syrup and people are slow to lose interest. Once they do, I would have moved on to someone else anyway. Maybe if they had to be cooked...at some famous place.

They're only dreams until you do something.

[wayoutsidethebox]

So, what's your plans for becoming a waffle? Dosing yourself with syrup does not a waffle make.

[sinspawn]

I'll need a waffle maker. But I don't actually know how to use one, so maybe someone else should be in charge of that.

[wayoutsidethebox]

We're having an intervention. You are boy, not food.

[sinspawn]

Closer to man than boy, you know.

But what if there's a cannibal here? Then I might become food. Great...now I'm going to be looking over my shoulder more than before.

[wayoutsidethebox]

If you were a man, we would be talking about you becoming waffles.

Even if there are cannibals, there's also guards. You need to worry more about the prison than the inmates.

[sinspawn]

You're the one who brought it up.

Why, what's wrong with the prison? Besides the events and these collars?

[wayoutsidethebox]

It was a rhetorical question.

What more do you need? You work for them to buy the candy or you die. Sometimes, they host events where you die.

[sinspawn]

So for the time being, I'll just avoid those events and only do the ones where people don't die.

[wayoutsidethebox]

You think you get to pick? I did not choose to be in Hunger Games 2.0

[sinspawn]

I was hoping you got to. Guess not. But what if you just...didn't do it?

[wayoutsidethebox]

See these collars? They use them to make us go bye-bye for a bit. I'm not saying to cave, just...so you know.