mk.09 (text)

[paraclete]

Who: Kaworu Nagisa, anyone else
Broadcast: text
Action: For now he's a busybody aboard the Vanquish, unless you'd like to discuss anything else.
When: 6/6, midmorning

They sell candles in packs of 8, 10, 12, 24, 48... and some packages even larger than that. Well, a certain type of candle, the kind that goes into the cake. Initially I needed exactly 16 candles, so the package of 24 would have been reasonable, right? But I thought it might be nice just to use all 24 after all.

Then I thought that a package of 48 might be just as nice as a package of 24. If not even nicer. It seemed worth trying.

Anyway, I have some sets of candles, now, the type specific to the cake, but if each candle represents a year of life, I wondered why I should stop at 16, 24, 48, etc. I have some bigger candles in my sleeping quarters, as well, so that's a few more I can add, but the higher the number of them I have, the less it seems like enough. It would be good to have a table full of them. A room full of them. It would be good to have candles like the sweep of stars.

I'm sure I can repay you, if you'd like to lend me any of your own. I promise I won't melt them all the way.

Comments

[paraclete]

[Meanwhile, here sits Kaworu, the quality of his voice gentle and spumy with...

Ah, geeze, this is a young man who is head over heels. We'll just get that out in the open right now. It might explain some of his nonsense.]

Is there such a thing as an excess of joy?

[servantnotserving]

[Oh nooo, don't get him with The Power Of Love, it's his weakness. ]

I...suppose there is not, no. Though there can sometimes be an excess of candles. If you want to see stars, there are many outside you know?

[paraclete]

And yet I would say that my heart contains greater even than all that I see outside.

[Pretty words, but this also means that he's a stubborn dork. He's one for becoming fixated on ideas...]

[servantnotserving]

I see. So, is there someone you wish to express this sentiment to, specifically? Or are you just making this grand statement for the joy of it?

[paraclete]

There is joy in someone specific. [He's laughing a little, which is almost an acknowledgement of how vague he's being—that's rare. Usually he just fires off ambiguities without pausing for breath or comprehension.] Yes, I have sentiments for someone.

[servantnotserving]

Oh! Well, that is marvellous, mon ami. I hope your little candle-stars impress them. I am sure they will.