dear_mun | On plans at asgardeventide and general whining

Is this the part where I'm supposed to thank you for dropping all of your other muses and your other game all while sparing me? Fat chance. While I'm absolutely flattered you've bothered to hold onto me for this many years, I'm also mildly perturbed by the things you're planning.

I'm in your head, remember? I see everything.

Just because the author practically made me two-dimensional doesn't mean you have to take it upon yourself to make me six-dimensional. I'm not pleased with your ideas, and furthermore I wish you'd stop hoping for the rest of them to show up.

Face it; Potter doesn't belong in the city. Blaise and Pansy don't belong in the city. None of them belong there, and you know why? …actually, no, do you know why? Because I'm struggling to come up with a reason, funny enough. [And then it dawns on him.] Oh. I've a reason. Applications close on the 11th. You can't possibly expect someone to write an application in four days and shut up, I don't care how fast you wrote mine last year.

…have I really been there that long? And you're not bored yet, are you? [That can either be a good thing or a bad thing, he's not sure just yet.]

Just do me a favor and don't terrorize them too much, all right? You've a penchant for being gruesome.

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Maybe I want to be doing more for myself than is allowed. Since when is that a problem?

...ah. So it'd be another Weasley situation. Or another you-and-me situation. I don't know if I'd care. Wouldn't you prefer to have Potter and Weasley at any time than no Potter and Weasley at all?

It's not a problem! It's just ... ( Not allowed? Complicated? She can't word it. Instead she gives up, giving him a look instead. )

What about Ron when he was dating Lavender? I don't care to relive that part of my life, thank you. Or Harry, in the middle of the war? He'd never be able to rest, he'd be so frantic to get home. It's not that simple. And then I'd have to explain how I can be from so far ahead of them and they'll ask questions I won't want to answer and--

( See? Complicated. )

And you want to take the easy route. [Because that's all he's hearing. But that comes from someone who likes being hard on himself lately.]

Yes, because being trapped in a city at war is easy.

...you should be grateful we're in a downtime right now.

Great. Something to look forward to.

Until they get bored again.

This is why I want other people in the city. If I have to be miserable, so do they.

Charming, Malfoy. Really.

Misery loves company. You can't tell me you don't agree with that.

You mean, I'm not all the company you need?

Variety's the spice of life, etcetera, etcetera. [Spending way too much time around muggles, this one is...]

( Both eyebrows go up. )

I know that. I've never observed that you did.

Certain people have been teaching me a few new life lessons. Are you honestly that surprised?

A little.

I'd say I'm wounded, but I actually don't care. Sorry.

( nope, no, that's not a smile, the smile is a lie. )

If you wanted to read some muggle books, I could give you a few recommendations.

...I'm listening. Sort of. I'm not sure how well I trust your judgment, obviously. [But he's curious nevertheless. Very curious. Draco Malfoy is finding muggle fiction to be fascinating despite himself.]

Have you read 'Sherlock Holmes'? It's mystery. You might like it.

[Why does that name sound familiar...oh well.] Might do. Someone in the city recommended science fiction to me as well. Which sounds contradictory but it's actually not.

( She knows. She knows. ) You might try reading muggles conception of Merlin, King Arthur and his knights. Those are fascinating, compared to what we know in the magical world.