[ week 3, wednesday ]

[alttitude]

[Jae-ha isn't in his usual spirits today for some reason! Weird. There's no odd bounce in his step, no hum of amusement, no vague smile like he's always just getting a kick out of watching everyone else.

Rather, he's going to find Rebecca rather stubbornly.]

Ah - dear Rebecca? Can I borrow your time for a moment?

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[alttitude]

.... is it? Dare I ask?

[disclosures]

You have to tell me if yours is as weird as mine, okay?

[alttitude]

[he has very little to lose]

If that's what you'd like.

[disclosures]

I have to lead a sing along as a distraction. [As she talks her sentence seems to take on a questioning tone.]

[alttitude]

... interesting?

[though he'll share because - ]

I'm to find a family.

It's a rather sappy thing.

[disclosures]

Really?

Like... you need to make your own family or you need to find a family of people in the castle?

That doesn't sound too bad.

[alttitude]

The latter, hopefully - I don't intend on ever following through with the former.

[no dragon children]

[disclosures]

What, having kids or having a wife?

[alttitude]

Both.

[disclosures]

It doesn't have to last forever. Besides, we're all from different worlds anyway.

Besides, families break apart easily.

[alttitude]

... do they?

[he's not familiar with that concept]

[disclosures]

Of course they do. That's why the divorce rates are so high. One parent usually ends up with primary custody of the kid and sometimes that kid never sees their other parent.

It's totally normal.

[alttitude]

[ . . . ]

I'm not sure if we're speaking the same language?

[disclosures]

Families break apart and find other people.

[She shrugs like what she said explains everything.]

[alttitude]

[can you believe that's the saddest thing he's heard about another world]

... you must come from very troubled times.

[disclosures]

[While we have actual murderer Goro Akechi?!]

It's just how life is. Besides, when whoever stays alive goes home? There's no way they'll stick together.

Better to be used to it.

[alttitude]

... you're very frank, dear Rebecca.

[disclosures]

Why shouldn't I be? If you try and sugarcoat it and lie, that makes everything worse in the end. Happily ever after doesn't exist.

[alttitude]

- that got very extreme!

[disclosures]

[She gives him a very strange look.]

No it didn't. Life doesn't end in happy endings! There's so much after the end of those stories. In the end the characters in the stories have to die because that's how humans are.

[alttitude]

... do you think living forever is a happier ending?

[disclosures]

No. I don't believe happy endings exist. At all.

[alttitude]

.... I hope something happens to change your mind.

[disclosures]

I used to believe in them. The longer I'm alive the less I believe they exist.

Anyway, you wanted to talk about... What were we talking about? [Rebecca!!]