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[impure_tale]

A much needed outing -- perhaps so enjoyable that some of us returned to our roving home, surprised that while the world outside has indeed changed -- offered us pleasure, beautiful sights and the deepening of friendships -- the interior echoes the same old dreary stories. Angry Inmates -- they were angry even when I was one -- the authoritarian Wardens versus the free-minded ones -- attacks, death, cries for justice.

It almost puts me in the mind to write a fairy story or two, if only to introduce a little more colour to the palette.

However, I think instead that I might begin publishing chapters of the very long work I have been creating in my silence here these last few weeks. It might offer some illumination on our present course, if not a little nostalgia for those of you that have been here as long as I.

[Private (tentatively) to Henry West]

I understand you are feeling better.

Comments

[inhumandog.livejournal.com]

A fairy story?

[impure-tale.livejournal.com]

Indeed.

[inhumandog.livejournal.com]

Should I even ask?

[impure-tale.livejournal.com]

Merely implying that stories with happy endings might serve as a welcome change of pace.

[inhumandog.livejournal.com]

Who gets the happy ending? A happy ending for one person isn't a happy ending for another.

[impure-tale.livejournal.com]

My dear Iago, I do believe you are feeling deliberately argumentative today. Perhaps I have taught you too much.

[inhumandog.livejournal.com]

I'm bored. I want something to do.

[impure-tale.livejournal.com]

Would you care to join me for a walk in the Enclosure? Renate craves some fresh air, I think.

[inhumandog.livejournal.com]

A temporary solution, but I won't refuse.

[impure-tale.livejournal.com]

We might discuss a more permanent solution at length.

[inhumandog.livejournal.com]

Fine. When shall I meet you?

It's cold outside >.O

[impure-tale.livejournal.com]

Allow me to dress properly and I will be on the main deck with Renate shortly.

Lovely!

[inhumandog.livejournal.com]

I'll be there.

This is him showing concern for you.

[buywithme.livejournal.com]

Comrade, I don't think anyone wants to see what you write when you're having one of your episodes.

he appreciates it, Prefect.

[impure-tale.livejournal.com]

My episodes, cherub?

[buywithme.livejournal.com]

When you get all weird.

[impure-tale.livejournal.com]

I was not well, if that is what you mean.

[gotgreenmagic.livejournal.com]

...

Just out of interest, did 'fairy' mean something else in eighteenth-century France?

[impure-tale.livejournal.com]

Is there no such thing as a fairy tale where you come from, Mademoiselle?

She still remembers looking you up in the library, you....suspicious individual :|

[gotgreenmagic.livejournal.com]

Yes there is and that's why I'm asking.

[impure-tale.livejournal.com]

That is all I mean.

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[major-west.livejournal.com]

I am, thank you for asking.

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[impure-tale.livejournal.com]

I came to see you once. I did not wish to intrude.

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[major-west.livejournal.com]

On Billy? I don't think he'd have-- [Wait, this is Billy.] Ah, nevermind.

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[impure-tale.livejournal.com]

We have not been on the friendliest of terms, you and I. It is only right that one assumes I do not have the best of intentions.

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[major-west.livejournal.com]

Which begs the question: what is this about?

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[impure-tale.livejournal.com]

Merely wishing to ascertain that you are well, Henry.

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[major-west.livejournal.com]

And I am.

[darknessb4me]

You write?

[impure-tale.livejournal.com]

Of course I write.

[darknessb4me]

I just didn't know.

[Shrug. LOL HE PAYS ATTENTION.]

Fiction, it sounds like.

[impure-tale.livejournal.com]

Mostly.