on apping to EV in the future

[straighttotheheart]

They permit me my sword? It can't be that bad.

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[straighttotheheart]

Different.

[barebacking]

Ah.

Different, then.

[straighttotheheart]

Yes.

Could you tell me more about this place?

[barebacking]

There is a lot to tell, and my words are a bit biased.

So if you are fine with that ... what is it that you wish to know specifically?

[straighttotheheart]

Aren't everyone's? Anything.

[barebacking]

I like the people who are there, for the most part. Everyone is my friend, and so, I feel very much at home there.

[straighttotheheart]

[That gets him to raise an eyebrow.]

Everyone?

[barebacking]

Even if they don't see themselves as such, they are to me.

[straighttotheheart]

I wasn't aware friendship worked like that.

[barebacking]

My friendship works like that.

[straighttotheheart]

I think you need a different name for it.

[barebacking]

What should I call it, then?

[straighttotheheart]

[He considers that.]

I don't know.

Why would you want to be friends with everyone? I couldn't imagine anything worse. [Well. He could, but.]

[barebacking]

It's merely better to think that way than think of everyone as enemies or nothing at all. Enemies take so much time to contemplate ... little things. Nothing is just boring and empty. Friendship, however, leaves a warm and calming light.

[straighttotheheart]

[He agrees on the matter of enemies, at least. It's worth his while no t to have them, though of course unavoidable sometimes.]

You've never met a person so disagreeable that you couldn't consider them a friend?

[barebacking]

Not on the island, I haven't.

[straighttotheheart]

And yet Alec tells me the people there are less pleasant that Riversiders. [Which is... saying something.]

[barebacking]

Alec?

Why would he say that?

[straighttotheheart]

... because he doesn't like them, I expect.

Have you met Alec? [If he has, the answer should have been obvious.]

[barebacking]

Hm.

Yes. We're friends with one another... but it's one-sided at the moment.

[straighttotheheart]

[He laughs softly.] I can imagine. He doesn't tend to be interested in making friends.

[barebacking]

Yes, but that's all right... my heart is always open and that's what matters, right?

[straighttotheheart]

Not to him. But if it pleases you.

[barebacking]

Oh, it does.

[straighttotheheart]

Then by all means, continue. [It seems unusual, but harmless to Richard.] Can I ask your name?