[34] - [Voice, Public]
Sep. 8th, 2012 03:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sharpememory[Barron sounds like death warmed up. This was intended to be private to Prefect, but due to the flood's affects he couldn't be bothered with it.]
You know what's amazing, comrade? When you reckon that the human body would have a limit to how much vomit it can chuck up. Pro tip? There isn't one. I must have hurled at least a dozen times today.
[A pause, because that lie is not helping Barron feel better right now.]
I think I'm gonna keep drinking until it goes away.
You know what's amazing, comrade? When you reckon that the human body would have a limit to how much vomit it can chuck up. Pro tip? There isn't one. I must have hurled at least a dozen times today.
[A pause, because that lie is not helping Barron feel better right now.]
I think I'm gonna keep drinking until it goes away.
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Date: 2012-09-12 10:45 am (UTC)I don't take it personally, Comrade. Like, right now, lying is making you physically sick and you aren't stopping. It's just a bit compulsive...
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Date: 2012-09-12 10:52 am (UTC)[Half a retch. What is this flood.] The infirmary guys gave me some medicine, but it didn't help.
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Date: 2012-09-12 11:05 am (UTC)SPAM!
Date: 2012-09-12 11:22 am (UTC)But... This is how I talk?
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Date: 2012-09-12 10:03 pm (UTC)Especially since your memory must be better lately? Since you haven't been using your power, you shouldn't need to cover up for things you don't know...
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Date: 2012-09-13 11:22 am (UTC)[No retching this time.] My memory still has holes, though. Being on the barge doesn't fix it. Not using my power just means that it doesn't get any worse.
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Date: 2012-09-13 11:31 am (UTC)[Prefect tries to contain his PROUD LITTLE SMILE, but nope, it creeps through anyway.]
And I understand that, Comrade, but what I mean is... things that happened months ago probably don't come up in casual conversation as often? So, the lies that you told today, that got you this sick, you probably weren't actually trying to cover anything up with them, right? Like, if someone asks you what you think of breakfast, or what you did at the weekend, you don't need to lie about that anymore?
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Date: 2012-09-16 12:07 am (UTC)[Except for the bit where he wouldn't. It's not helping with the effects of the flood.] But everyone lies at some point, right? Even you?
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Date: 2012-09-16 12:21 am (UTC)[Prefect is tempted to deny it, but a) it'd be setting a bad example to lie while denying that he lies, and b) it'd probably hurt right now...]
I do lie sometimes, Comrade, I think... even if it isn't right, it's normal to lie occasionally. But I try not too. [It's more that he just doesn't often feel like lying, when he wants too Prefect doesn't even really think about it, and lying about this makes his muscles contract with pain. Prefect just smiles benignly, hiding it.]
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Date: 2012-09-16 12:27 am (UTC)It's just the Admiral screwing with me. It's not my fault.
[Barron actually looks surprised at that, because he thought that Prefect basically never lied.] Does anyone ever believe you?
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Date: 2012-09-16 12:39 am (UTC)[Prefect replies to the question almost instantly:] Pretty much everyone believes me.
[Pause.]
I don't lie to you though. And I don't lie about anything important.
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Date: 2012-09-19 10:45 am (UTC)[It was a good way to change the subject.]
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Date: 2012-09-19 10:51 am (UTC)[Tiny spike of pain, but Prefect manages not to let on. Okay so he assumes that he's lied to Barron once or twice, he just... doesn't remember.]
And anyway, I don't lie enough for it to be a problem!
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Date: 2012-09-27 12:39 am (UTC)What, do you only lie when someone is about to die or something?
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Date: 2012-09-27 12:53 am (UTC)[More pain. Prefect lies when he can't be bothered to continue conversations, and when he thinks it'll be funny, and sometimes when he wants to make people feel guilty... He's just going to... try and smile as he says this.]
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Date: 2012-09-27 12:59 am (UTC)If this is the point where you tell me that all my family is really dead, I'm gonna be a bit pissed off.
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Date: 2012-09-27 01:09 am (UTC)If they ask you: "Was it really that bad, what I did? Will those people ever forgive me?"
I think then, that I would lie to them. Because they're already paying for their mistakes and they already know that they were wrong. They just... are asking you for support. Not for the truth.
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Date: 2012-09-28 11:13 am (UTC)So it's a bit like a con. But instead of getting money, you want to improve how they feel about themselves?
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Date: 2012-09-28 11:42 am (UTC)SPAM!
Date: 2012-09-28 11:51 am (UTC)[And a light punch in the arm to go with that, Prefect. Of the friendly variety.]
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Date: 2012-09-29 12:07 am (UTC)SPAM!
Date: 2012-09-29 03:34 am (UTC)Good. Then I promise that I'm not anyone from your world in disguise.
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Date: 2012-09-29 10:26 pm (UTC)Thank you, Comrade. I'll trust you on that one.
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