Calibrations Spill-Over Post

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[birdsbirdsbirds]

[oh, thank the Gods for context clues. if he gets too many more of these, he's going to have to give in and start asking clarifying questions...

but he smiles anyway, shrugging too in baseline victory.]

All right...

[he doesn't leave her waiting long (he's a quick thinker), and holds up three fingers to illustrate.]

My favorite food is frozen waffles, I can speak fluently with cats, and I once ate an entire live scorpion.

[this is fun. it could take a turn for the worst at any moment, but these are currently harmless.]

[tothefly]

[Well, isn't this more interesting with a stranger? And in her head. There's none of the physical clues she's used to. None of the cues she can really follow to a decisive end. So she considers. Looks at him, looks through him.]

Well. You do look kind of like the poster boy for bad decisions. I'm gonna go for the waffles. No one likes frozen waffles. They don't have flavor.

[birdsbirdsbirds]

[he's very good, yes. his eyes are the most telling part about him, but he's being careful to keep them fixed on her rather than darting around and giving all his secrets away.

her answer really makes him grin, though.]

Not if you get the good ones! The buttery ones that don't taste like cardboard, I'd absolutely break the law to get some of those again.

[tothefly]

[She's wrong. Fascinating. But then, that tells her as much as being right, doesn't it? Wrinkling her nose at him, she makes a face.]

They all taste like cardboard. Some of them are just butter-flavored cardboard. It's the texture. Awful.

So which one's the lie, then?

[birdsbirdsbirds]

[maybe he likes buttery cardboard. best invention humans ever came up with... he seems entirely happy to share, since these truths are still light and harmless.]

The scorpion, of course. That sounds horrid.