[voice] an idle curiosity in the middle of the night

[maddest]

If you could make the choice to lose one memory, what would it be?

If you don't feel like sharing the details of that moment, answer this instead- if you were really given the choice, not hypothetically in the future, but today, with all the realities and consequences you face, would you let the moment go? And would it change you?

How much of our darkest moments make us what we are?

Comments

[mister-hatter.livejournal.com]

I like Gabriel. I wasn't going to touch a hair on his head.

[thelightbringer]

Mmhmmm, pull the other one. There's nothing much innocent about you, Xerxes.

[mister-hatter.livejournal.com]

Aw, I'm hurt.

[thelightbringer]

Most people would take that as a compliment.

[mister-hatter.livejournal.com]

Whoops. I'm not playing my part very well at all recently, am I?

[thelightbringer]

No.... [Purring the words] You've got everyone else so confused now. And here you are just...enjoying yourself. For shame.

[mister-hatter.livejournal.com]

I sometimes feel as though all of it is hurtling towards a precipice. All the lies, half truths, charades, all the people here and their dreams, mistakes, attachments and misconceptions. One day someone will crack against another soul, there will be a single spark, and all of us will be engulfed, consumed by our own poison.

[thelightbringer]

We can hope. Whose soul do you predict will light us up?

[mister-hatter.livejournal.com]

Someone utterly innocuous. Negi, maybe? One of the other sweet little things?

[thelightbringer]

Negi's not as sweet as he looks~

[mister-hatter.livejournal.com]

Killing someone doesn't count unless you mean it.

[thelightbringer]

I agree. [Passionately, in fact.]

You should never do anything unless you mean it.

[mister-hatter.livejournal.com]

[He turns off the feed.]

[painhumbles.livejournal.com]

Aww. Is it over already? Damn. It was just getting good.

[mister-hatter.livejournal.com]

[A moment or two later.]

I should take a bow.

[painhumbles.livejournal.com]

You and your lovely assistant, both. It's like watching Burns and Allen on Showtime.

[thelightbringer]

You put me as the assistant?

[painhumbles.livejournal.com]

You didn't start it, Gracie.

[mister-hatter.livejournal.com]

Now, children.

[thelightbringer]

I picked him out of a line-up.

[painhumbles.livejournal.com]

And decided to bicker him to death? What were the Miranda rights like on that one? 'You have the right to avoid responding with 'no you?'"

[thelightbringer]

He likes it. [Yes, he sounds just like the schoolyard bully who keeps asking you why you're hitting yourself.]

[painhumbles.livejournal.com]

He likes everything.

[thelightbringer]

Actually, he--

[A slight pause]

If he did, you should be praising me for doing a good deed, shouldn't you?

[mister-hatter.livejournal.com]

I want to hear the end of that sentence.