Dragonmail: Reilanin

[transfer_student]

Reilanin:

I think Alex is feeling terrible about the world right now. Could you try to cheer him up if you can?

Comments

[winterwhite]

Pardon?

[transfer_student]

We had a fight and we're not really talking right now.

But he seems upset about other things and maybe you could help.

[winterwhite]

Well clearly you had a fight, you were training, weren't you? Why would you not speak after that?

[ upset about other things... well, yes, that's obvious, though she doesn't understand the fullness of that statement either. ]

Ah... well, I... I've been trying, I think...

[transfer_student]

It was a verbal fight, too.

Oh, you have? I guess maybe you've been aware of it longer than I have.

[winterwhite]

Is that how berserkers train?...

Mm... there's a lot going on... I don't think I'm very good at it, though...

[transfer_student]

It's difficult. I don't know any special techniques.

[winterwhite]

For berserker fighting or for Alexander?

[transfer_student]

For Alex. For cheering people up at all, really.

Except cookies, but when people are genuinely upset they seem to find cookies offensive.

[winterwhite]

Mm...

He seems to have been all right, but... [ well, it's difficult to say... he told her she was enough when she asked, but she gets the feeling sometimes that she's not... and she doesn't actually want to confirm that... so she's never asked...

but... ]

I'll just ask.

[transfer_student]

Thank you, Reilanin!

[winterwhite]

...why won't you talk with him, though?

[transfer_student]

Because we're angry with one another right now.

[winterwhite]

When will you not be angry?

[transfer_student]

I'm planning on being angry for maybe three or four days.

Alex hasn't filled me in on his plans.

[and if he did he'd probably RANDOMLY CHANGE THEM]

[winterwhite]

He didn't seem angry... he went to take a bath...

Are you sure he was angry?

[transfer_student]

I'm sure. It mostly wasn't really at me, though. I think.

That's why I'm planning to get over it.

[winterwhite]

Mm...

How angry?

[transfer_student]

Yelling about 'not fucking caring.' That sort of thing.

[winterwhite]

I don't understand?

[transfer_student]

I'm not sure how to rate someone's level of anger out of context.

[winterwhite]

[ alex isn't usually angry around her, so she can't really say, either... does that mean, even right now, at this very moment, he's angry, and she can't tell?

but why would he hide it from her? ]

Mm, well, thank you for telling me.

Maybe you should be angry with him in fewer days.

[transfer_student]

I think I picked just the right amount of days!

[winterwhite]

How do you decide...?

[transfer_student]

[wait. how DID he decide?]

I thought about how angry I was and then I subtracted a day because he has his own problems.

[that's a lie

he made the number up because it sounded good]

[winterwhite]

... how angry would a day's worth be?