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[motherloving]

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... ]

Comments

[shortcircuits]

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

Unique.

[thismightaswellhappen]

How so?

[shortcircuits]

. . .

[TAKES A LONG DRAG]

[thismightaswellhappen]

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

[shortcircuits]

It's magic nonsense.

[thismightaswellhappen]

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.

[shortcircuits]

My partner is Alexander the Great.

[thismightaswellhappen]

...

Oh. The version with the disappearing horse?

[shortcircuits]

. . . yes.

[thismightaswellhappen]

Isn't he a teenager?

[not in... a horrified tone, though. because she got the Heroic Spirit talk already. otherwise it would be a horrified tone.]

[shortcircuits]

Sometimes he's a teenager. Sometimes I am. Sometimes he's . . .

[GESTURES, LIKE, SIX, SEVEN FEET HIGH]

[thismightaswellhappen]

...

[EYEBROWS]

You're serious.

[shortcircuits]

Would I joke about that?

[thismightaswellhappen]

...I see what you mean about it being a unique situation.

[shortcircuits]

I thought you might.

[thismightaswellhappen]

Do you keep your memories when you, uh...

[hand goes from adult head height to smol head height to indicate deage]

[shortcircuits]

[he makes quite a face

Yes.

[thismightaswellhappen]

Is... that not the better outcome?

[shortcircuits]

It's better. It can just be troublesome at times. I was quite the brat.

[thismightaswellhappen]

That makes it sound like your younger self sets you up somehow.

[shortcircuits]

. . .

It's been known to happen.

[thismightaswellhappen]

...I think I've had that nightmare.

[shortcircuits]

[snorts]

It . . . could have gone worse.

[thismightaswellhappen]

Well, now I'm curious. What exactly were you being set up for?

[shortcircuits]

Under no circumstances will I tell you.