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[explosivecombat]

[TEXT; LOCKED TO doitrockapella]

The offer for conversation is always open, should you desire to take me up on it; I can't guarantee that I'll respond immediately, nor will it necessarily be the response you want, but I'll always respond in some way.

In the name of enlightened discourse.

Comments

[doitrockapella]

We tell each other all these stories about the people we know and remember. Assuming as a given that we'd be telling them in the first place, have you ever thought about the ones we might recall about each other someday?

[explosivecombat]

Once in a while I have - though I admit I thought about it more when we first started talking, oddly enough.

[doitrockapella]

Dare I ask why?

I can think of a few answers, and I want to see if one of them turns out to be right.

[explosivecombat]

You liked to tell me about the psychopaths you know; I wondered a few times if I was going to be another.

[doitrockapella]

Blast. So much for sentimentality.

[explosivecombat]

What did you think I was going to say?

[doitrockapella]

That you thought about it more early on because thinking about it in the first place is premised on the assumption that someday I won't be around.

And nowadays, you prefer not to imagine a world without me around in the first place.

[explosivecombat]

Oh, come now. Do I ever make it that easy?

[doitrockapella]

Why do you think I always have to say it? If I don't, no one will.

[explosivecombat]

Well, I never have been one for sentimentality.

[doitrockapella]

And yet it's not as though your reputation is in any danger with me.