On tentative plans for City of Ariel and a rusty voice

[lost_her_head]

Please reconsider this! You already know how complicated it's going to be to get me to fit with the setting, and I'm not sure how many people are going to share Shinra's...appreciation for how I look.

Yes, I suppose someone should be there to keep an eye on Shizuo and Izaya but why does that someone have to be me? Don't you think I tire enough of that where I am, and to ask me to do that without my powers...

You're insane. I realise I must be too if I'm trying to reason with you. But that doesn't mean I don't think this is a big mistake.

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[lost_her_head]

That I can believe. It would explain why it's only our protests that go ignored.

[aliencomplex]

True enough.

[Beat.]

So yours has plans to send you to a city of some kind?

[lost_her_head]

Yes. One which revolves around the kind of activity that should not be shared so readily.

[aliencomplex]

Cities are generally full of things like that but are there any in particular?

[lost_her_head]

...Sexual activity.

[So much easier when no-one can see the blush but even so]

[aliencomplex]

[Agreed. And there is silence from the pda. Trying to understand--no, just not going to.]

[lost_her_head]

[Writers are strange creatures. Understanding is often difficult]

[aliencomplex]

I would work on changing your writer's mind. As soon as possible.

[lost_her_head]

I'm trying. I'm not sure how successful I'll be.

[aliencomplex]

Is your writer prone to distraction?

[Cheap and terrible tactic but the alternative was non-negotiable. Desperate times called for desperate measures.]

[lost_her_head]

On occasion. There is another who she was considering and yet somehow her attention has turned to me.

[aliencomplex]

Maybe you can come to a compromise. If she's determined to send you somewhere than that may be room for negotiation.

[lost_her_head]

I'd be more hopeful if the thought to send me anywhere hadn't come so entwined with the thought to send me there.

[aliencomplex]

Is... that the only reason your writer wants to send you there?

[lost_her_head]

She insists it's more to do with Izaya and Shizuo being there but I haven't missed how it amuses her to consider what might happen while I'm there, specifically.

[aliencomplex]

Ah... How unfortunate then.