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[constellationprize]

Hi! This is ☆radia! I'm really sorry I wasn't able to answer your call... Um, if you need anything, it's fine to leave a message here! I'll answer you as soon as I can!
 

[ for phonecalls and texts ]

Comments

[notadrop]

...Wait, what were you talking about?

[constellationprize]

... I'm just worried about him...

I just want to protect him. That's all.

[notadrop]

...

You still didn't answer my question.

[constellationprize]

He's always - there was this game too, wasn't there...?

[notadrop]

This game?

[constellationprize]

What you asked me about earlier - he was trying to get someone disqualified and got hurt, and that's why he hasn't been able to talk since it ended . . .

[ lets go of his head to scrub at her face a bit ]

I'm sorry. I should talk to him about this instead, shouldn't I?

[notadrop]

We're friends, and also I'm your familiar apparently? So you can talk to me about whatever you want.

And what I meant was you never told me what you wanted.

[constellationprize]

... I'm okay. If you want to keep going then that's fine, but I don't really want or need anything...

[notadrop]

You obviously want things. You should want things. People deserve to be happy, dude.

[constellationprize]

I'm not really a person...

[notadrop]

That's not true and if you say it again I'll actually tear out your throat.

[constellationprize]

- Ruby, it...

... What do you think it means to be a person?

[notadrop]

You're like, here, aren't you? You exist and you have thoughts and feelings and you do stuff with your free will or whatever. You're a person.

[constellationprize]

Um... Do I...

[notadrop]

Yes? You've been showing that for like this entire date?

[constellationprize]

[ how does she ]

Um... It's a little complicated...

[notadrop]

Nope. It isn't. Like, not at all? 0% complicated. There is actually a total lack of complication to be found.

[constellationprize]

It's like -

Um, think about a cup, maybe...? When it holds water, it's not really about whether it likes it or doesn't like it, is it...?

[notadrop]

Did you know you aren't a cup?

[constellationprize]

... Ruby, it's a metaphor...

[notadrop]

That somehow proves you're not a person?

[constellationprize]

I'm shaped like this, and I can talk to you like this, but if it's between being an object and being a person, you'd say I'm more like an object, wouldn't you?

[notadrop]

Do you like, know what objects are?

[constellationprize]

Um...

... What do you think an object is?

[notadrop]

The opposite of the thing you are.