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

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

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.]

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[By the end? Definitely.]

I think I know who I'd like as my partner next time. [If he can't have Horatio, anyway, but that goes without saying.

Ahahahaha! Well, it's not too hard to figure out is all.

As many times as I've taught this game here, actually, you're one of the quicker learners.

Ahahaha! Really? I guess I just like card games. [I'M TOTALLY NOT A GENIUS WHO COULD PROBABLY COUNT THE CARDS IF I WANTED TO! WHY WOULD YOU SAY THAT!?]

[Dude, his best friend is a genius who does count cards and made a living out of it during the Peace.] Then you won't hesitate to join us next time.

[But counting cards makes it boring!] Sure! Sounds like fun. Just let me know the next time you get together!

I certainly will. [He stretches, then picks up his glass and drains it.]

Good, I'll look forward to it. [He drains his own glass.] Maybe we should have a game when we all get back.

I take it you've been drafted as well.

Yeah, I have.

[Archie's eyes fall. That's...sort of all that needs to be said. They understand one another on that point already.]

[Vash smiles.] It will be alright, I think. I'm pretty sure it will at least.

Yes, of course. Being sent into completely uncharted territory which actively tries to kill everyone in it, against a powerful enemy that knows the land and has killed everyone else who's gone in, it all sounds like a perfect course for a resounding victory.

Ah, well, maybe it won't be that bad. We'll get to see a rain forest! I've never seen one of those before.

We'll all be corpses in a rainforest. [Shuffling again.] Thrown to the wolves.

Well, I don't know about you, but I don't plan on being a corpse.

Not many do.

You're that worried, huh?

The word "hopeless" might be more appropriate. No more hopeless than the situation.

Things are never hopeless.

You sound like Horatio.

Ahahaha! Not a bad thing I hope!

He is my very dearest friend. But hopelessly naive, despite everything.

Aw, come on. Hopelessly seems a bit harsh.

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