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Who: Everyone!!!
Broadcast: No
Action: The Iskaulit
When: For the rest of the month

[Now that we've all had time to settle back into our ships, let's see what's going on over on the Iskaulit! For the new folks, there are already a few establishments and projects going on, but there's plenty of room for everyone, either to join in or to build their own thing. So mingle away!]

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. . . It wasn't supposed to be bad. But you don't like it. Do you want to know what I mean?

[She bites her lip and rolls her eyes skyward, staring at the ceiling as she thinks. It takes a surprising amount of time for her to sort out her own shorthand.]

Sweet just means . . . I guess it means you're being kind to me. So - it's like a math problem, a little bit. Coil is kind to me + I don't expect people to be kind to me = Coil is sweet. Sweet is kind and surprising.

Does that make sense?

[his brow is furrowed, but it's more out of skepticism than a lack of understanding. because, 'kind' is another thing that he has never been called.

he makes the sign for it, complete with the most doubtful expression he can muster-- hands making a small, neat pedaling motion out from his heart.

he's being kind?]

[It takes her a minute to get this one, but after she mimics it for a few moments, she understands - it comes out from the heart. Then she nods, more solemn than emphatic.]

You're teaching me instead of chasing me away. You're talking to me. That's kind, to me.

[Maybe her bar isn't very high. But it feels nice. Warm.]

[he nods slowly, shallowly. he'll take her word for it. he tries not to think about it much more than that.

maybe it's to help skirt past it all, that he demonstrates the sign then. he might as well, right?

fingers drawn down a couple times from the mouth and chin-- and because it's so alarmingly close to the sign for 'cute,' he spells it out afterward. S-W-E-E-T. just to be clear.]

[Fingers down from the mouth and chin. This one's easy, it's about taste, that's obvious. She repeats it a couple of times and then looks down at her fingers, curious.]

So it means both? Sweet like the taste and sweet like the characteristic?

[he nods. it's one of the most versatile signs-- even though he has little use for any of its meanings.

he spells out C-A-N-D-Y and S-U-G-A-R and D-I-A-B-E-T-E-S, and pointedly leaves out 'cute.' he's already made the mistake of arming someone with that word once.]

[It makes her giggle and curl up further on herself, signing them back at him. Candy, sugar, diabetes.]

What about--

[A little more slowly, she signs S-A-V-O-R-Y.]

That's what I used to say when people would call me sweet. "I'm not sweet, I'm savory."

[...he's not much of a joke person, but he finds that one funny. and he's glad to be moving past the previous topic, so his mood lightens easier than it might have otherwise.

he nods, appreciatively, and spends a minute thinking about that one.

eventually, he awkwardly offers the sign for 'tasty'--which is practically the silly, cliched gesture that anyone would use--and shrugs afterward.]

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