[Dragonmail: Reilanin]

[transfer_student]

Reilanin:

I am meddling a little, I hope you'll forgive me.

Ravindra is worried you misunderstood him when you thought he might leave (he never wanted to leave), but he hasn't been able to tell you so because you haven't wanted to speak to him.

And he is confused about why you won't speak to him at all if you wanted him to stay around -- is it that (my guess) you want him gone for a little while but then back again in the end?

[The letter is delivered in a box, with a nicely wrapped up cookie. It is either a Get Well Soon Cookie, a Sorry You're a Golem cookie, or a Please Don't Mind My Meddling cookie. Maybe all three?]

Comments

[winterwhite]

[what is all this

she has to stop and think about it for a few minutes

while she eats the cookie]







Yes?

[transfer_student]

Ah... yes to which part? That you want him back in the end?

[winterwhite]

Of course...

[transfer_student]

Oh, well, all right.

I don't think he knew. When you're getting the silent treatment it's hard to guess what the other person is thinking.

[brrr silent treatment he's glad he's not getting it]

[winterwhite]

[another long pause between answers... nova must have spoken to ravi again recently

silent treatment? but she's talked lots! ...with nova. and alexander.

n-not so much with ravi, no...]

Is that so...

[transfer_student]

[wow meddling is harder than he anticipated]

It is so.

...You're hurt because he asked you to do something painful?

[winterwhite]

For someone I didn't know.





For someone more important than me.

[transfer_student]

[;_;

H-have another cookie with this message Reilanin]

Feeling unimportant to someone you care about is the worst.

[winterwhite]

There is a lot I do not understand about others.

It is as you say. It is a matter of time. I... I realized I do not know him very well. If I did not know about Iravati...

But many people have others who are important to them. And that is all right. I would not have done it if Ravindra were not important to me. Even if I do not understand him very well.

I will learn. But I need some time.

Is that all right?

[transfer_student]

Yes, I think so.

I hope you're all able to become closer again.

[winterwhite]

Have I


made things worse?

[transfer_student]

I think that you're the one they're both looking to for when things can be all right again.

So actually you'd be more like the center of it than someone who is influencing it one way or the other.

That doesn't mean you have to forgive him if you don't want to. But I don't think he really meant to say he didn't care about you by asking. It sounded like a sort of panic, to me. Something happened that scared him and you were the one with the power to help.

[winterwhite]

Oh...

I see...

[transfer_student]

Are you all right?

[winterwhite]

I... don't know.





...I miss Ravindra.

[transfer_student]

[Mission accomplished? Was that the mission?]

Maybe you could talk to him soon. I think he misses you too.

[winterwhite]

Yes... maybe.