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[reedfate]

Interfering with fate - especially something as inevitable as dying - never ends well for anyone, mundane. Maybe you should reconsider bringing me to a place like this.

After all, how useful could an old man like me be at games like these, where fate can be rearranged at will?

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[mahoushonen]

[Syaoran would be absolutely ecstatic that his mun wants him to tag with Clow Reed except that it's Clow Reed, and he is, as ever, moderately tongue-tied in the presence of respected elders (much less Clow himself). How is supposed to instigate a conversation? Surely it's better to wait to be spoken to?]

Wh-what game can rearrange fate like that, sir?

[reedfate]

[ D'aww, Syaoran. He's not THAT scary. Or, well, he'd like to think that he isn't. ]

Isn't learning how to play half the fun of a game?

[mahoushonen]

[He's probably really nice, or at least as smiley and full of advice as his reincarnation is, but Talking To Adults and Talking To Adults Syaoran Admires are both Really Hard Things, he's 11 and people are difficult D:]

... I think it's important to know how to play before starting, sir.

[Forever the most cautious, this boy.]

[reedfate]

Usually. But what's fun and what is important aren't always the same thing, right?

[ Sorry, Syaoran. He's notorious for being very, very difficult most of the time. ]

[mahoushonen]

How can playing a game be fun if you don't know how to play it when you start?

[No seriously, this is really perplexing.]

[reedfate]

You don't find a learning process fun?

[mahoushonen]

[He's never really thought about learning as fun, more like something that you just do because that's his duty, and if there's one thing Syaoran is, it's dutiful.]

I don't mind learning ... but it's more fun to learn before you start than afterwards.

[Didn't this conversation start out being about fate? aah Syaoran feels a little like he's being played with.]

[reedfate]

[ That's Clow Reed for you. ]

But we don't always have that opportunity. I confessed to Sakura that this kind of place is outside my field of expertise, to say the least. That doesn't mean that I'm not interested in learning, or that I won't enjoy doing so.

[mahoushonen]

[even though he feels a little unattended to, syaoran is ready to absorb any wisdom clow has to impart. he nods his understanding.]

What kind of a place could be outside your field of expertise, sir?

[reedfate]

[ A brief pause. Serious!Clow for a moment, here. ]

A place where fate exists only as far as our mundanes' desires do.

[mahoushonen]

[syaoran has never given much thought to fate, as he was taught to make his own way, and whatever 'fate' might be to sakura and others, much of it was the machinations of clow reed himself laying a path for sakura's success and happiness. but this sounds very dire.]

So everything could change on a whim? [this is said with all the gravity a very serious 11-year-old could muster.]

[reedfate]

You are aware of why you are here right now, aren't you? It's for the same reason I am.

1/2

[mahoushonen]

Because our muns want us here? [yes, syaoran is all too aware, he would never have dared speak to clow if not.]

2/2

[mahoushonen]

[a moment later his eyes widen a little as he gets clow's meaning.] Ah!

[reedfate]

[ He knew you'd catch on eventually, Syaoran. He doesn't say anything more, just smiles his typical smile. ]

[mahoushonen]

[clow must think he's so thick. he's embarrassed.] I guess I never thought of it that way.

[reedfate]

Few people do, but that doesn't mean it has to be a bad thing.

[mahoushonen]

[something occurs to syaoran then.] If there isn't any fate that isn't just what muns want, that means you can't see the future, can you ...?

[hiiragizawa didn't like seeing the future, and it seemed clow didn't like seeing the future, so to him this must be a good thing, right?]