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[witchdaggah]

[ so like.

the text keeps appearing and reappearing. like someone's deleting their post? repeatedly. eventually one sticks, though: ]

NO ONE PANIC
The rat infestation is mine


[ that's it. that's the post. ]

Comments

[lumberlady]

Well it definitely won't be now, for sure- and I don't know if he'll even want to race, but! I'll ask.

[Wow, what a mouthful of a name... Borosuki...]

Can we call it a club if it's only two jinba?

[witchdaggah]

If you want to go by school rules, I don't think so? But I think that school is maybe not for everyone anyway, so you don't have to if you don't want to.

[ that is... as neutral as she can make that, right? yeah, probably. ] You've never gone to school, have you?

[lumberlady]

Not really, no... there's a temple school in the next village, but, they didn't really like jinba.

[witchdaggah]

Wow. Eff those guys.

[ school is maybe not a thing she enjoyed, and a thing that she likes to not talk about a lot. regardless, the fact that she didn't have an option... that the decision was made for him. hm. ]

Did you want to go?

[lumberlady]

A little, I guess... ? You can get better jobs if you know how to write... but it worked out, okay! I got a good job at the lumber yard anyway, so when I'm not helping my parents with the planting or the harvest I'm keeping busy.

A lot of people in the Circle say they come from places where almost everyone gets to go to school, though. That's amazing.

[witchdaggah]

Yeah, I don't know. Not everyone gets to go where I'm from.

[ it's expensive, and sometimes you get stuck with your family's debt or trying to make sure the business doesn't go under or... well, details. ]

I, uh. I'm sorry they didn't give you a choice, Konoha.

[lumberlady]

Oh, no, it's okay! My family is just farmers, it's not like I expected to really be able to.

[She waves it off with a small laugh, trying to dispel the damper.]

It's just nice to imagine fancy worlds like that I guess.

[witchdaggah]

[ no!! it's just like bea!!! argh!!! why does this happen! she's so nice!!! ]

I think you're too like, cool, to not have been given a choice, though. Like, you could have done both. School and farming! I always thought farming would be cool, like I wouldn't need school then... and it'd just be, my dogs, and my cats, and we'd howl at the moon every night.

Awoooooooooooooo!

[ said the cat. ] But like, you could do both, and that's still pretty cool.