[ JACKSON HEART ]

[socialcapital]

[ THIS HEART WILL HAVE CWS FOR:

- CANON-TYPICAL VIOLENCE
- SLIGHTLY ABOVE AVERAGE FOR CANON-TYPICAL VIOLENCE
- CHILD ABUSE
- SLAVERY
- DRUG AND ALCOHOL ABUSE ]

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Re: [ PAVEMENT ]

[socialcapital]

His feelings




are hurt.

"Oh. Well. If you're sure, I guess. That's fine."

Re: [ PAVEMENT ]

[demonicdomestic]

It has nothing to with the quality of performance you and your bandmates deliver. Even I know your work is without peer. This is the relic of a personal trauma.

Even without that, I did steal you out from under your keeper's nose. I doubt I will be a welcome presence at our return.

Re: [ PAVEMENT ]

[socialcapital]

"I could smooth that over I bet. But if you don't want to come it's fine. You don't have to. It's fine."

He'll get over it.

Re: [ PAVEMENT ]

[demonicdomestic]

[He thinks of the pigeon, fluffed up into a huffy ball.

Radiant songbird.]

Tell me something you don't like. Besides mysterious strangers turning down concert tickets. And dairy products.

Re: [ PAVEMENT ]

[socialcapital]

"Something I don't like? Um... I don't like... deadlines...? Birthdays? Airplanes...?"

Re: [ PAVEMENT ]

[demonicdomestic]

Birthdays?

Re: [ PAVEMENT ]

[socialcapital]

"Um, well, not the concept of being born or anything, I mean..."

Re: [ PAVEMENT ]

[demonicdomestic]

You mean your birthday, specifically.

Re: [ PAVEMENT ]

[socialcapital]

"Well. Not really. I don't celebrate it. Other people do, so I get a bunch of presents sent to me, and it just feels kind of weird."

Re: [ PAVEMENT ]

[demonicdomestic]

Then what?

Re: [ PAVEMENT ]

[socialcapital]

"Then what...? That's kind of all. It's just weird."

Re: [ PAVEMENT ]

[demonicdomestic]

[He shakes his head.]

I took that to mean that it is not your birthday you dislike, but something else about birthdays. Was that in error?

Re: [ PAVEMENT ]

[socialcapital]

"Oh, uh... no, I guess it is my birthday I dislike. Or rather, to me it's just a normal day, but it's strange to know other people care about it way more than me."

Re: [ PAVEMENT ]

[demonicdomestic]

[It's not the day they care about, it's you.]

It's harder to celebrate such things if you never experienced their positive sides when you were younger.

What about planes?

Re: [ PAVEMENT ]

[socialcapital]

"I just spend so much fucking time on planes. It's boring. I'm sick of them. We should invent teleportation."

Re: [ PAVEMENT ]

[demonicdomestic]

So you have no problems with flight itself?

Re: [ PAVEMENT ]

[socialcapital]

"Yeah, I don't have a phobia or anything, it just takes so much time. Especially if you go between time zones."

Re: [ PAVEMENT ]

[demonicdomestic]

Even teleportation isn't always instant. But it is faster.

Re: [ PAVEMENT ]

[socialcapital]

"It wouldn't be as annoying if it wasn't like, so much of my life right now and- wait, you teleport?'

Re: [ PAVEMENT ]

[demonicdomestic]

[Sighs.]

No.

Re: [ PAVEMENT ]

[socialcapital]

"Darn. If you could I would ask you to show me how. I'd probably free up some time for napping."

Re: [ PAVEMENT ]

[demonicdomestic]

If it were a blessing, seeing it wouldn't do you much good.

You'd need it to be some kind of teachable magic -- and you'd need a world where you yourself were a gifted sorcerer.

Re: [ PAVEMENT ]

[socialcapital]

"If I work hard and believe in myself. I might develop a teleportation blessing."

Re: [ PAVEMENT ]

[demonicdomestic]

If you work harder than you are now, there's not going to be anything left of you.

Re: [ PAVEMENT ]

[socialcapital]

He laughs like this is not a serious problem he's dealing with even though it is.

"Alright, then I'll save it for when I get some downtime."