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[diamondchoker]

OPTIONAL PROMPTS



TEXTING

( one. ) Our history of emotional warfare is rich and celebrated. Less so our history of actual warfare.
( two. ) If you give away my hiding spot, I'll be forced to take sweet revenge on you.
( three. ) I brought tea, but not enough for the naked guy in your vestibule.
( four. ) Do you ever wonder how many people have prayed for you to be a better person?
( five. ) There's destruction when we're together. Mostly of our livers, but who needs those anyway.

( bring your own. )

FIVE SENSES

( touch ) A strokes or brushes B’s hair.
( taste ) A cooks B a dish they’ve never tried before.
( sight ) A recognises B at a masquerade party.
( sound ) A plays an instrument to B.
( smell ) A and B walk through the sewers to escape capture.

( pick your own. )

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[diamondchoker]

Texting (two)

[astrogator]

I'm hurt!

Surely you know I'm a woman of honor and don't need threats to keep your secrets.

[diamondchoker]

Sorry, but women of honor are especially bad at keeping secrets, didn't you know? You have to name at least two other relevant virtues to convince me.

[astrogator]

Now don't underestimate me. My tutors were obsessed with virtue ethics.

Integrity.
Reliability.
Courage.

How's that?

[diamondchoker]

I'm impressed!

I like courage the best, it's more fun. What do you use your integrity for?

[astrogator]

Integrity means I don't abandon my principles even if it becomes inconvenient to keep to them. It holds everything else together, really.

But you're right. Courage is more fun. Why are you hiding?

[diamondchoker]

Integrity as a fixative. If more people thought like you, the world would look very different. Less shaky.

Someone told me it's best to always be prepared, so I'm just practicing making myself disappear. The gown doesn't make it easy, however.

[astrogator]

Less shaky. More predictable. I think I'd like it better.

Being prepared is sensible but I can't say I've ever seen that advice interpreted that way before! The gown looks very inconvenient. There's a reason I turn down invitations that would require something other than a nice practical uniform.

Maybe you have a virtue I don't.
Grace, even in very impractical clothing?

[diamondchoker]

Your uniforms are so charming, though. I'd attend everything dressed in one of those, too, if I could.

Grace in impractical clothing? I don't know, it seems self-contradictory to me. Grace isn't a very practical virtue.

[astrogator]

You could.

Wait let me clarify. I'm not recruiting! You could start a fashion trend inspired by more practical clothing from faraway places, couldn't you?

If not grace, then what are your own dearly held virtues? As I told you mine!

[diamondchoker]

Trousers for women! The pockets alone would earn me a fortune.

All right, my virtues. Ari, that's a hard one... I want to say kindness and fortitude.

Humility, maybe. What does that say about me?

[astrogator]

[Her discomfited twitching at the informality of plain Ari is positively Victorian...]

There's a business opportunity there if you want it, Frances.

I don't believe humility is a virtue at all. I think it's right to take pride in one's accomplishments. That you list it says to me that maybe you don't do enough of that.