2nd Lesson [Video]

[melonsaregreat]

[One day Yukihime will make one of her trademark grandiose speeches on this thing, I swear. But today she's being impossibly laconic again, starting the video with zero fanfare and a disinterested presentation.]

So, the house I was renting got incinerated during the fun. Most of my money was in it.

[There's a pause; even now she's weighing the merits of this against what she considers all the vastly easier options that don't involve having to ask favors of people. Or have anything to do with them at all, really.]

Which means I'm looking for a room. A free one.

[Here's where you might expect some kind of personal plea, an attempt to engage the audience's sense of altruism, but nope. The whole request is, despite being totally one-sided, just 'take it or leave it'.]

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[watchesthesea]

I think I could offer you a room, but I'd have to ask my room mate first, if that would be okay?

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[melonsaregreat]

They don't like surprises?

[She's joking.]

[KIRA][Video]

[beareroflight]

[Kira peers into the feed whilst he was tying his pony tail. A laugh escapes him when the lady in the feed finished her little speech. He recognized the lady a little, but his memory was a bit hazy.]

You expect people to give you a free room?

[He laughs again, though he gives her a cheeky smile.]

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[watchesthesea]

It's not that, but I think it's always nice to at least give an house mate a heads up.

[betel_geuse]

"Free rooms are easy to come by, babes. Just pick an empty one you like and move in. Or, if you find one you like that's occupied, scare the tenants away!"

[melonsaregreat]

I don't expect anything in particular. But someone already offered me one.

[Cynics hating cynics.]

[melonsaregreat]

I thought about it.

[But you know, she spent hundreds of years living like that, she's giving the 'sort of vaguely fits into society' thing a try these days.

Can't say she doesn't miss the simplicity though.]

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[melonsaregreat]

I was kidding, you know. I'm not exactly spoiled for options, so get back to me when you can.

[beareroflight]

Oh well. My pity goes to them.

Shouldn't you go and find means to earn money or something?

[melonsaregreat]

I have an offer there too. Whenever they finish building the school, anyway.

So are you just fishing for a beating or what?

[beareroflight]

So til then, what the heck will you do?

[Cheeky smile.]

Beating? Me? I don't know what you're talking about.

[melonsaregreat]

I've lived in far less hospitable places than this. I'll manage.

You, on the other hand, seem like the sort who turns everyone against them and makes themselves miserable no matter how easy things should be.

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[watchesthesea]

I will do. But I guess I should at least introduce myself. My name is Kairi.

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[melonsaregreat]

Yukihime.

How old are you and your roommate, anyway?

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[watchesthesea]

We're both 16. It's kind of young to be living alone without parents, but we managed so far.

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[melonsaregreat]

It depends. In times of social disruption it wouldn't be uncommon at all. There's always war orphans and the like... this is a happier fate than that, at least.

[She's just. So cheerful.]

Still, being in a position where you can give of your own product to others, I suppose I shouldn't call you children.

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[watchesthesea]

It is. In this case it's probably because we got separated from our crew and wound up here. But I've found minus that one incident that this place is a lot nicer.

[She smiles slightly.]

I don't mind if you do or not, especially since technically we still are and I wouldn't mind.

[beareroflight]

I suppose. At least things are quiet now, right?

[He then started to finish tying his hair in a ponytail. Then Kira just blinks at the woman.]

I do?

[Kira then asked with a puzzled tone.]

Have I done something wrong? I mean, I'm just telling you its wishful thinking to expect to live with someone for free. People will expect a form of compensation, one way or another.

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[melonsaregreat]

The place you hold for yourself in society, how you live, matter a lot more than your age.

Though in my experience the young will show their age sooner or later, too.

[melonsaregreat]

You're telling me that based on what, kid? A few years in school with the other myopic brats?

[betel_geuse]

"So, what's the problem, babes? Can't find a place you like?"

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[watchesthesea]

I guess experience plays a part in it too, am I right to assume?

[melonsaregreat]

I've gotten used to the places having people in them.

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[melonsaregreat]

There can't be anything else. What besides their experiences turns a child into an adult?

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[watchesthesea]

I guess age and education helps a bit.