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?

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[transfer_student]

If you forget to be angry, the clock still ticks down without you.

It's everyone's responsibility to keep track of their own anger.

[winterwhite]

[ oh, well, that makes sense... other people can't be responsible for your anger for you, after all ]

What if... mm, what if you don't sleep?

[transfer_student]

Well, people do most of their cooling off from anger in their sleep, so it would diminish a lot slower. Let's say a night of no sleep is worth half as much.

[winterwhite]

So I would stay angry twice as long?

[transfer_student]

Something like that! I'm not sure I've ever seen you angry though...

Not even when I was trying to get Ravindra's name and you didn't want me to

Or when I read your mail

I suppose maybe you could have been angry but not in a way that came through in your letters...

[winterwhite]

Mm. I suppose you'd have to have been there. [ she doesn't really remember being angry at nova, but she definitely remembers being angry at duncan. that was a pretty special sort of angry.

hm, no, if there even is a time she's been angry she can't think of when it was, duncan aside. ]

You really shouldn't read other peoples' mail, though.

[transfer_student]

Other people's mail just always seems to find me.

[winterwhite]

Nova.






Never open my mail again.

[transfer_student]

I only did it once!

I wasn't going to anymore!


Oh, wait, are you angry right now??

[winterwhite]

Maybe.

Let me sleep on it.

[transfer_student]

Are you really?

That's exciting, I guess...

[winterwhite]

I haven't really decided yet.

[transfer_student]

Now if I can just come up with something inflammatory to write to the penguin and the duck I can have the whole house angry at me!

[winterwhite]

I'm not entirely sure that Pendleton or the duck know how to read.

Though I don't think it would be difficult to get the duck mad if you just flapped the paper at it...

[transfer_student]

Maybe you could read it to them...

[winterwhite]

I could if you wanted to send something. I really just don't know how effective it would be.

[transfer_student]

[when you jokingly threaten to insult someone's waterfowl, Reilanin, you must see it through to the end]

Please be sure to tell them this letter is from me, so they don't become confused and get angry at you instead.

Dear Pendleton and Duck:

I have never met such a pair of pitiful freeloaders such as yourselves! One would think that with all the time you save on taking care of your basic needs, you would have plenty of opportunity to better yourselves, but Reilanin has informed me that the two of you can't so much as read!

What in the world do you do with all of that free time? Clearly you don't spend it caring for your personal grooming. Pendleton, your eyebrows are a disgrace. And Duck, those are some of the greasiest feathers I have ever seen. I really am quite appalled at the both of you!

Disrespectfully yours,

Nova

[winterwhite]

[ she doesn't even think to question that he sent this. she doesn't know how true it all is, though. pendleton's eyebrow feathers are magnificent iho and how can something that spends most of its time in water be greasy? buuuut she promised she'd try it out, so she goes to do that

the answer comes back like an hour later ]

Sorry! I went out to read them the letter and got caught up feeding them and telling them how cute they are...

[transfer_student]

Did they seem mad?

[winterwhite]

Ah, well, they both squawked at me a little while I read it, and I shushed them and they seemed a bit unimpressed... they calmed down after I fed them.

[transfer_student]

Good enough for me. I'll call it a success!

[winterwhite]

Is it, really?...

[transfer_student]

You don't think so?

[winterwhite]

Well, they don't seem angry, and they haven't even slept on it.

[transfer_student]

I thought maybe they were squawking in anger.

Ah well, maybe next time.