Fourteen Bells: [WRITTEN/ACTION] Forward-dated to morning.

[simplestgift]

I understand that Twenty-Six isn't any different from Twenty-Five, and that birthdays are no accomplishment, but I find myself especially grateful for this one. I didn't expect to spend it thinking about being thrown into the lions' den tomorrow, but one can't have everything.

Kennedy

[Archie will be about the library, the grocery store, and Good Spirits today, looking strangely neutral. Catch him pretty much anywhere. Horatio is permitted to tag along wherever, so responses might come from both.]

Comments

[flexes] >:^|

[whatsanything]

[8O OH]

Hi, Archie!

[She holds up the book, anxious.]

You can read what things say?

XD

[simplestgift]

I can.

[whatsanything]

[Works for her! She hands it over.]

I want to know. What they're called.

[Animals are too cool to not know.]

[simplestgift]

[He spends some time with the book open before them, reading it aloud and naming every animal, occasionally relating a memory of one.]

[whatsanything]

[Aaaand she jabs her index on one of the pages.]

This!

[... A dragon.]

I saw this in the forest. It's called a dragon.

[simplestgift]

It is! Ours is named Jack. The one you saw in the forest.

[whatsanything]

He seems very serious and—and grumpy.

[Best words to describe their meeting.]

[simplestgift]

Well, I wouldn't blame him. He wasn't always a dragon. He used to be a man, like me. Though come to think of it, he was very serious and grumpy back then, as well.

[whatsanything]

... Does everyone turn into a dragon?

Will I?

[simplestgift]

Well, no. Only if you're very greedy indeed.

[whatsanything]

Very greedy?

[The seven sins haven't come up much in my day-to-day time.]

[simplestgift]

Erm...if you want a great deal more than you need, I suppose. If you want everything and don't care if you deprive others so you may have it.

[whatsanything]

... That sounds really awful...

Why would someone want to do that?