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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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I'd take them over picking out a whole new wardrobe.

See, there's your problem.

[he's joking? maybe]

[well. she seems to be trying not to smile.]

My lack of enthusiasm for mall time?

Bothering to have a wardrobe at all.

Is that your professional opinion?

Yes. I could have a degree in "making the least effort possible" but the concept seems rather self-defeating.

Now I understand why this club doesn't have badges.

[...if he's actually lighting up as per the icon, she'll do likewise after a brief hesitation]

[he is. also, his mouth twitches at that, a slight grin]

Precisely so.

[takes a drag, exhaling a slow stream of smoke]

...so how did you deal with it?

I don't know if I'm the best example. My circumstances have been . . .

Unique.

How so?

. . .

[TAKES A LONG DRAG]

[tilts her head, not quite expectantly, but waiting to see if he'll answer]

It's magic nonsense.

Unique magic nonsense. Unlike the magic nonsense implicit in unexpectedly picking up an extra decade or two of life experience in the span of a few seconds.