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 Posted: Tue Aug 18, 2009 12:19 am
"Yeah, my PARTNER," Kira Kei stressed the word. "Like business partner. We work together. I don't have a mate mate."
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Posted: Tue Aug 18, 2009 12:30 pm
Arwen jumped back a bit at the ferocity of Kira Kei's annoyance. "I assume too much. I just guessed that since you were so lovely that by partner you meant..." Arwen back-tracked again. She was digging herself into a hole. "Sorry," she sighed half expecting to be eaten soon. It wouldn't be so bad if she liked it rare instead of cooked. Shaking off those morbid thoughts, she looked back to Kira Kei.
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Posted: Tue Aug 18, 2009 2:07 pm
Kira Kei tossed her head slightly, seemingly preening a bit. "I am lovely, and there have been many offers. But my partner and I aren't like that. Tanis can't be tied down any more than I can."
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Posted: Tue Aug 18, 2009 3:34 pm
Nodding her head, Arwen agreed. "Some people can't be tied down. It happens."
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Posted: Tue Aug 18, 2009 3:43 pm
"What about you?" After the words were out, she remembered Arwen mentioning the lost of her people. She could have kicked herself for such an insensitive question, if she was letting herself be sensitive.
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Posted: Tue Aug 18, 2009 3:50 pm
Arwen sighed as she closed her eyes. "I have attempted love, but it has failed me. I've had children...And I love them, but I have yet to find someone that I could love and stay with forever."
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Posted: Tue Aug 18, 2009 5:20 pm
"Love is overrated," Kira Kei decided. At least, that was what she had always believed. Love let you down. It made you put your faith in another person only so that they could hurt you.
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Posted: Tue Aug 18, 2009 6:10 pm
She nodded slowly, "Sometimes it feels like that, but somewhere out there...there has to be someone that makes this all worth it."
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Posted: Tue Aug 18, 2009 6:19 pm
Kira Kei thought about it for a moment before nodding a bit. "Yeah, okay. There's probably someone out there for everyone. But that doesn't mean that you have to love them. Could just be a good friend or a partner you can rely on."
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Posted: Wed Aug 19, 2009 8:38 am
Arwen sighed, "Maybe...but I hope you're wrong. I hope for more one day. I have friends, but they don't fill the part of me that's missing." She gazed intently at Kira Kei for a moment, "You don't fell like some part of your life is lacking? Vacant?"
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Posted: Wed Aug 19, 2009 1:00 pm
She thought about that for a moment, stretching her wings before settling down on a large boulder. Did she feel vacant? Nope. She was completely whole. One hundred percent happy. Most of the time.
"Sometimes," she admitted, surprised she was being so honest with a stranger. "Not often, though. It usually only comes around when I've been alone and idle for too long. Work and Tanis tend to keep me too busy, so I don't think about it much."
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Posted: Wed Aug 19, 2009 6:25 pm
"That's how it starts," Arwen's voice held sadness in it. "At first being busy keeps you from feeling it. Then even the busyness can't keep it away. And you work and work though your mind is filled with it because if you keep working you can fall asleep. Then if you're lucky...you won't dream."
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Posted: Wed Aug 19, 2009 6:37 pm
"Is that what you do? Try to avoid dreaming?"
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Posted: Wed Aug 19, 2009 7:14 pm
Arwen nodded. "To avoid dreaming and the past. Some things don't fade with time."
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Posted: Wed Aug 19, 2009 7:18 pm
"You know, they make medicines for that. Tanis has quite a few teas and things that will let you sleep deeply without dreams."
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