[Ah yes. Ding ding ding. Nice of Siffrin to check him off the list. Hopefully this one is less...fraught. Surely he is, if he lacquers his own nails by hand.]
Good. I didn't lie, but I wasn't sure, either.
[He would hate to deal in false hopes, at least when it's someone else.]
[If Siffrin was a little better at remembering things, he might have context behind Di Feisheng's message, but instead he sits there staring at it for a good while, desperately searching his brain. Didn't lie about what? Should they have thought they were lied to?? But they both agree this is good news...
What if...they just try to play it cool. This could work.]
It's pretty crowded in the house with three of us now, but we're used to it. It's too bad we're all on different teams. That makes things kinda complicated.
[Sure, it could work. In this medium. Though it hadn't not worked before, precisely. If anything, not playing it cool had gained Siffrin a weird but powerful ally. This strategy could play out worse but surely won't.]
All different teams here, too. I think complication is the point.
['Too bad,' he says. Either they are gifted with an ability to understate suffering or...no, it's probably that one.]
Or just division. If that's it, your people are doing better than mine. They scattered like cowards.
[Hmmm??? Well, he can't say he knows these people well, but still...]
Really? Fang Duobing didn't seem like the cowardly type. Maybe...he's trying to spare you? We all eat on our own in the city because our kitchen might explode if we tried to eat together there.
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Date: 2025-05-30 03:40 am (UTC)Good. I didn't lie, but I wasn't sure, either.
[He would hate to deal in false hopes, at least when it's someone else.]
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Date: 2025-05-30 04:38 am (UTC)What if...they just try to play it cool. This could work.]
It's pretty crowded in the house with three of us now, but we're used to it. It's too bad we're all on different teams. That makes things kinda complicated.
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Date: 2025-05-31 03:53 am (UTC)All different teams here, too. I think complication is the point.
['Too bad,' he says. Either they are gifted with an ability to understate suffering or...no, it's probably that one.]
Or just division. If that's it, your people are doing better than mine. They scattered like cowards.
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Date: 2025-06-07 04:02 pm (UTC)Really? Fang Duobing didn't seem like the cowardly type.
Maybe...he's trying to spare you?
We all eat on our own in the city because our kitchen might explode if we tried to eat together there.