On finally getting a name.

[estrapade]

It took you long enough. And a journal, too.

Now you're too stretched, though. I don't suppose I can go have fun somewhere?

You know, "fun." I call it torture, you call it fun. I've probably been through worse.

No? Well, we'll see. I'm not going anywhere.

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[trapsfortroubadours]

You seem almost eager.

[estrapade]

I am. I've been waiting a while.

[trapsfortroubadours]

Even those who wait seem reluctant to abide by their mundane's whims.

[He tilts his head.]

[estrapade]

We're already abiding by them.

I'm just taking my freedoms where I can.

[trapsfortroubadours]

Is it really freedom? I would assume your mundane would not go to these lengths if she had no intentions of placing you anywhere.

[estrapade]

She's poor at time management.

[Tringe smiles.]

Is everyone here so firmly embroiled in a victim's mindset?

[trapsfortroubadours]

Hardly. I just prefer a more realistic approach to dealing with my mundane.

[estrapade]

What's your strategy?

[trapsfortroubadours]

I offer my opinion but hold absolutely no expectation that she shall listen.

[estrapade]

Mm. Very zen. And has she ever listened?

[trapsfortroubadours]

Remains to be seen.

[estrapade]

Well, let me know. Maybe we can write a book for mundane strategies.

Which I suspect would be mostly strategies that don't work.

[trapsfortroubadours]

There's some merit in such research.

Or so we should tell ourselves. I find the alternative much too depressing.

[estrapade]

Giving up is never uplifting.

[Her smile becomes just a flash of an impish grin, before it settles again.]

Are you so serious about everything?

[trapsfortroubadours]

[That was him making a joke.]

Every century or so, I do sometimes make a joke.

[estrapade]

To keep them all guessing?

[Her mouth twitches again.]

Nothing wrong with a... contemplative man.

[trapsfortroubadours]

Sometimes there's little else to do.

[estrapade]

Yes. Especially in a long life.

[trapsfortroubadours]

Of which I assume you know a great deal about.

[You smell dead, bro.]

[estrapade]

Very much.

Things always get exciting again. One way or another.

[trapsfortroubadours]

You don't ever find yourself seeking a little reprieve from the excitement?

[estrapade]

Sometimes. Rarely works for me.

What about you?

[trapsfortroubadours]

With my family it is so rarely ever a dull moment.

I'm not sure I would know what to do with myself if things were to settle down.

[estrapade]

I'm sure you could think of something. You seem like a cultured man.

There's a book I want to read. But trouble keeps finding me.

[trapsfortroubadours]

If I should live so long, perhaps we shall see.

Or are you the type to seek trouble?