003: Seems to me quite clear, now — now that you are here — how easily I could begin again

[payingfordeliverance]

Who: Break + various
What: Catchall log; closed starters, event overflows, etc. No open prompts.
When: January through February, perhaps into March
Where: Various

Content Warnings: Use of the heartstrings prompt from the January TDM (injury, body horror, burning, melting), and one bond pact (blood ceremony, bodily ceremony, telepathic/empathetic connections). One Mother's Mercy thread (intense guilt and shame, talk of grieving your own death, forced confession), and one using the really evil magic chocolate where you cough up an organ. Threads will be marked accordingly and further warnings added here as they come up.

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[payingfordeliverance]

"Mm. Just think -- perhaps someday we'll have all been here long enough that such things make perfect sense right away. Won't that be something."

Movies and books aside, Break has been finding that he only rarely has to check the glossaries in his recipe books now. Trench is already assimilating them all, and given that he is unhappy about it and also a professional grudgewanker, Break is keenly aware of it. Some days, it makes things more comfortable, and eases the tension in him. Others, he wonders just how he has found himself in his current life, and is obliged to remember that time is passing.

[lludw]

Yes. Won't that be something. It's good to be adaptable, to learn new things and adjust yourself accordingly. But in Trench, there's a sense that doing so is a betrayal, as well. Adjusting to Trench means becoming more and more unrecognizable to those left behind.

Lucius expects that's why Break doesn't exactly sound enthused about the prospect.

"Or maybe the rest of them will have to make perfect sense of us." He says it lightly, a joke to quiet both their minds. "Omnium rerum principia parva sunt. If we just throw things into conversation, they'll have to catch up eventually."