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WHAT in person for maximum wish power
WHERE by the lake or anywhere
WHEN night of day 140
NOTES it's a tanabata post!

[ Bamboo trees line the shore of the lake tonight, trailing papers from their branches. Each one is inscribed with a wish mysteriously left by...someone. Some of them are generic, like "world peace," and others are kind of weird and random, like, "fishes with candy scales."

But if you touch one, the text on it might turn into one of your wishes. Maybe it's something innocuous, but maybe it's one of your deepest secrets.

Well, maybe you don't go to the lake tonight. In any case, the stars are luminously bright overhead, and looking at them instills you with a strange sense of nostalgia... ]

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Do you think I'm ungrateful for what I have?

You're not me.

Mmm, I know you have a hard time believing you deserve anything. Except you do, and we're the ones who decide who we want to love.

I'm not rejecting anything I have. And I'm not . . . turning down anybody that I start to care for.

I know. I'm not saying you are. But you think "if I ask for anything more than this, I'm the worst."

I just feel like it would be tempting fate, is all.

What if I wished for things for you? [gently runs fingers through his hair] Because, oh, I want the world for you, Vasily.

[stares at him, breath catching noisily]

I want you to be able to have everything you want without having to sacrifice anything. Without losing anything. However impossible that is in life, I want it for you. And you know me. I'm not afraid to express my wants.

. . . what's the point of wanting things you can't have, though?

Doing your best to find ways to get it, I guess. Not risking it passing you by.

Mikk.

I met the man of my dreams and within the span of months I'd proposed to him.

I'm very good at taking what I want.

The man of your dreams. I like that. Good for Steve.

I don't think you're not. But I think being willing to want things is about attentiveness, not just how you'd act once you want it.

[just wrinkles his nose, reaching up to trace his fingertips along Mikk's jaw]

You opened me up to that, beloved. I look.

Then I have nothing to worry about.

Aha. No?

If you look and take, the rest is... well, certainly not nothing. But action means a lot.

Mm. Something like wishing for things, though . . . I guess, it doesn't sit easily with me, since I still—there's still so much I don't know how to deal with.

I mean... I understand, I think.

[drapes himself bonelessly across Mikk's lap]

[wraps around him]

...Can I wish that you healthily get to the point where you can wish for things?

Don't waste wishes on me, sweetheart.

Never a waste. And I won't run out.

Hah. That's true, isn't it?

I put endless demands on the universe, I promise you that.