146. Cube

[corrinesbell]

It's been six years.

Maybe I should just stop counting after this. Is it worth it? All that stuff about seven years...

[Sheena remembers her last 'anniversary' with neutrality, but the fallout with a hard grimace and clenched fists.]

There'd better not be some stupid statue anywhere this time.

[locked to Albert Silverberg]

Hey. Up for a talk?

[[ooc: Six long years ago I joined this silly game. I can't wrap my head around this and I have lived it. You guys are amazing.]]

Comments

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[chikaidestroyer]

A short one or a long one?

[There's a wry note to his voice. Hearing Sheena talk about the length of time spent in Luceti made him a little tense, but not too much at the moment.]

[locked]

[corrinesbell]

One where we toast each other and drown in our own cynical bitterness.

[locked]

[chikaidestroyer]

[It says something that he's not at all surprised by that reply.]

A long one, then. Is the shop closed up?

[locked]

[corrinesbell]

Yeah. And I was gonna say we might as well meet at Good Spirits instead.

[ voice ]

[notyourutopian]

[Oh hey crazy girl she attacked...]

Statue?

[ voice ]

[corrinesbell]

Yeah. It's complicated. The short version is there's a statue of me in my backyard now.

[ voice ]

[notyourutopian]

That sounds...I would hate that.

Can't you just tear it down?

[ voice ]

[corrinesbell]

It's pretty solid. And I have a feeling that even if I tried, it'd just show up again the next day, or I'd get something worse as "punishment" for doing that to the "gift" from the Malnosso. It's better off just to leave it there, at least it's only behind the house.

[Locked]

[wise_maiden]

[Six years for Sheena and Albert, and as usual the reminder that in a few more months she'd be joining them.

... It was still strange to think that there was no longer anyone between them, months wise. Perhaps it wouldn't be long until someone found a statue of her somewhere.]

... Do you need anything?

[Locked]

[corrinesbell]

I don't think so. I've got all the tea I could want to drink, y'know? Thanks, though, I guess you could promise me you won't lose your mind before you're here for six years.

[Locked]

[wise_maiden]

Is that a no to company, then? I take it you aren't at the shop.

Voice

[tea_lover64]

Well, some anniversaries are easier to observe then others. Did someone procure you a statue previously?

Voice

[corrinesbell]

It was this...really dumb "gift" for being here for five years. It's a statue of me.

Voice

[tea_lover64]

Well, statues usually are quite an honour.

[Voice]

[savedtheworld]

Six whole years? I think that's the longest I've heard...

[Voice]

[corrinesbell]

Yeah, it's the longest I know of here, unless people're really hiding something. I was one of the first in this...uh. Not cycle, but something like it.

[Voice]

[savedtheworld]

I see. I'm sorry you've been stuck here for that long. Raine... She's been here for a really long time too, huh? [Maybe that's some comfort to her, having one of her friends around for so long. It almost reminds him of Sokka and Katara. But he tries not to think of that. It's scary to imagine them being there as long as Sheena... especially without him.]

[herotypical]

...Somehow, I'm guessing that not-counting is actually gonna be more difficult than counting.

[corrinesbell]

I think I count every day. Whether I want to or not.

[herotypical]

Ditto. I mean...I came on the first day of a whole month. It's kinda hard not to count when a calendar practically does it for you.

[markofthewise]

... and I remember thinking two years was a long time when we first met.

[And then forever goes by, whether you like it or not.]

[corrinesbell]

It is a long time. Six is just longer.

[Voice]

[knightofratatosk]

And I thought five years was bad...

[Emil, sticking his foot in his mouth for a little over five and a half years now.]

[Voice]

[corrinesbell]

Five years is bad. Six is a different kind.

[Voice]

[knightofratatosk]

Isn't that almost as long as this enclosure has been around?