tfln #4 return of the terrible choices

[muskeg]

you know the drill. have at it, swampians.

Comments

[foxtwo]

never be afraid to speak your mind. it's your most important and beautiful asset.

what's nice? that his happiness makes me happy? he's gone through a lot. he deserves it.

pain is feeling, even if it's not the best of them. it's good to have known pain. it's important, i think, to know it and recognize it.
what's your power, exactly?

[strewn]

Beautiful? That's a poetic way to put it.

Yes. That someone's happiness can make another person happy. It's nice to think it's something that can be passed along. Especially if someone was in pain and now that's lessened.

That's how I feel. How I felt, when I was experiencing it.

My touch takes people's abilities away for a short time, depending on how long we're in contact. It steals energy from humans. I'm really careful about it though, I promise.

[foxtwo]

don't you think your happiness could make Bam happy?

if your touch does that, how are you going to get intimate with someone?

[strewn]

Maybe. I'm not sure.

I never thought I could, but there's someone here who doesn't mind me borrowing his power.

[foxtwo]

ah

the pianist, isn't it

[strewn]

yes. him. it doesn't hurt him.

[foxtwo]

you smell like him. i guess you'll smell like him a lot more soon.

[strewn]

i hope so. as long as it's okay with him.

[foxtwo]

i doubt it would be a problem.

why did I format those last two tags incorrectly? we may never know....

[strewn]

What makes you say that?

i see nothing wrong

[foxtwo]

oh, he likes sex

i mean, i don't have a firsthand experience, but that's the impression i've gotten.

[ should you have said that, jin? ]

never happened!

[strewn]

Oh, right. Sex isn't the only thing that makes people smell like each other though, is it?

[ A good question, Jin. ]

[foxtwo]

no. considering you already smell like him quite a bit. you're like a sponge.

[strewn]

I am like a sponge, that's accurate. I absorb lots of things.

[foxtwo]

looks like it. smells included.

[strewn]

I guess I don't mind that so much. It's not unpleasant to think I smell like him.

[foxtwo]

you like him, huh

i guess he doesn't smell bad, anyway. there are worse smells than chocolate.

[strewn]

I do like him, yes.

Chocolate's a nice smell. Isn't it? [ Is it that you like chocolate, Dal, or is it that you like how Myung smells? ] What's your favorite? Smell, I mean.

[foxtwo]

good. he's good, really. a bit self-loathing.

that only matters if you like it. i like the smell of chocolate but i'm not the one planning on sleeping with him.

my favorite is warm brown sugar, that particular smell when it's just about to turn into caramel properly.

[strewn]

He works hard. It's difficult, when you're fighting yourself.

I can smell him in places besides bed.

I don't really know that smell, but it sounds nice. Who smells like that?

[foxtwo]

that's not what i mean. i mean that it doesn't matter if i like the smell of chocolate or not, i'm not the one who is into him. i don't have to smell him very much. you, on the other hand - if you *can* even smell him like i do - you probably need to really like chocolate, otherwise it won't be that much fun for you to be around him so much.


Yujin smelled like that. No one here does.

[strewn]

Oh, I see. He definitely smells like chocolate to me. I don't think I could get tired of the way he smells.

I'm sorry. Is it bad to smell that now?

[foxtwo]

see, that's what matters.

it's not bad. it just hurts.

[strewn]

I understand now. What's pleasant to me might be different because I like him.

Hurting is bad though. Isn't it?

[foxtwo]

yes, exactly

pain is a lot of things, not just bad.