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]

It's a decoration. It mirrors the interior of the heart. Nice, right?

[This probably doesn't help an already bewildered face, not that Kaworu seems aware.]

[touchallthebooks]

It sounds like you're about to create a severe fire hazard.

[At least he keeps his fire elementals under control.]

[paraclete]

It will be warm at worst, I'd like to think.

[He may be able to withstand, you know, magma or whatever, but not everyone present at his candle party (well, birthday party) can. It's discourteous to discount someone else's physiology.

...]

Besides, they'll all get blown out.

[touchallthebooks]

You know how quickly a large number of candles can ignite anything near them, right?

[He is so concern.]

[paraclete]

I'd better be meticulous about the arrangements, in that case.

[touchallthebooks]

Or you could use a more acceptable number of candles?

[Just a suggestion.]

[paraclete]

What's the highest acceptable number? In your opinion.

[touchallthebooks]

You mentioned years of life and needing sixteen exactly, initially. Why not that?

[Guess who never had a proper birthday?]

[paraclete]

[Kaworu isn't accustomed to "proper" birthdays, either, which has led him to... this mess.]

I'd like to think of much more time than just sixteen yesrs.

[touchallthebooks]

That isn't what this is for though, is it? It's for now, not later.

[paraclete]

[...]

Do you have a favorite day of the week?

[touchallthebooks]

[That's a strange question and it catches him off guard.]

I actually never gave it any thought. Most days were the same for me.

[paraclete]

Truly, a day is only ever a day's worth. I understand.

I had developed an enjoyment of Saturdays. With the mandated work week over, machines went quiet in most places. I listened to crickets and rode bicycles past flower patches. When a Saturday ended, I found myself looking forward to the next one. I found myself thinking about Saturday on Tuesday or on Thursday. When the rest of the week didn't matter to me, I felt like Saturday, and even Sunday... I felt like they weren't enough time.

Enough time for what? To feel good? Everyone has a time when that will stop. I suppose I grew eager to celebrate the weekend even on a Tuesday or a Wednesday. I suppose I've grown eager to celebrate as many candles as space will allow.

[touchallthebooks]

[That's a lot of thought put into it. All he can really think about is the day they won't have to worry about war with the orcs, King Llane will figure something out. That might be a long way off though.

And his only other possibilities are his days with the Kirin Tor.]

Each day for me was training and studying, sometimes the other apprentices and I had enough free time that we went into Dalaran proper but that was it.

[paraclete]

It goes quick, you know. Time. It can go very quickly.

[With the tonelessness of text, it's difficult to tell whether that's an observation, an admonishment, or something else entirely.]

[touchallthebooks]

It does, yeah. I've learned that. Especially here.

[Meeting someone from the future, his future, does that.]