♕ |[39]| And pay meet adoration to my household gods

[had_not_lived]

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Well, this would be the place to start.

If one of you has the time, I'd like to talk to you about a deal we made, a while ago. Thank you.


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All right. It's done, or at least, it will be at midnight tonight. I didn't have to give up anything I can't live without for a while at least. So whenever and wherever you'd like me to meet you...

...I can't tell you how much this means to me.

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[had_not_lived]

Oh. Kind of pretty, even if I don't understand all of it...

Well, sir... My friend Todd and I-- we made a deal a while ago, to share his life between us? It goes back and forth, every week?

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[laszlo-jamf.livejournal.com]

Pretty words, pretty sounds, if I made up a language and told you what it was, you'd all believe me.

I remember that one.
I like that one.

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[had_not_lived]

It's been better than I could have hoped, sir. But... well, I wanted to know-- if I wanted to cancel it and put things the way they were, give Todd back all of his life, would that be possible?

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[laszlo-jamf.livejournal.com]

It would be.

I wonder what he'd say about it, though.

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[had_not_lived]

Well... right at first he might be upset but I think once I explain things...

I don't know how much to say, though they seem to know everything here anyway...

I was hoping to make it a surprise, sir.

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[laszlo-jamf.livejournal.com]

You know the example they always give in schools about dramatic irony? That story, "The Gift of the Magi," where the husband sells his watch to buy hair combs for his wife and the wife sells her hair to buy a watch chain for her husband--let's hope we don't spiral down that route. It's so melodramatic.

I dislike melodrama.

It's also an imposition on me, so I will have to demand a little fee. The surprise is easy to arrange.

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[had_not_lived]

I hope we don't either. Thank you sir. Let's see...

I figured there'd have to be something... It has to be worth losing, for a while at least, for them to accept it. Let's see.

I'm not sure what I can give up that's of value. Poetry? All of it. For... a mo-- no, I can't last a whole month, maybe I could... it's not making a deal, it's breaking one, would he take less?

Two weeks? It might not sound like the biggest thing, sir, but it's one of the most important there is to me.

[ooc; <3 I hope that's okay? He'll be selectively blind/deaf to anything presented to him and unable to say or write any. I'd go a full month if preferred but I had plans for a curse late in the month |D]|

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[laszlo-jamf.livejournal.com]

You're such an addict.

Fine. No poetry for you for two weeks. A strict diet of prose. You might learn to love the old art of essays. You'll probably go for painting first, though.

Or maybe dance.

Now that would be something.

Come sign the papers, I'll add them to the file, and you'll be set.

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[had_not_lived]

I can do that. He's done much more for me, it's hardly anything in comparison.

It will certainly give me a reason to read something different. Thank you, sir. I can't say how much I appreciate it. I'll sign.

[ooc; midnight tonight would be preferable? <3 i don't think he could wait til the next switch without exploding, haha. thankyou :D]

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[laszlo-jamf.livejournal.com]

A worthwhile expansion of thought.

I feel downright generous in this edification of, well, you.

Forms are waiting, triplicate and carbon paper--because no one knows anything without pretty colors.