[ another day, another reminder you look like a freak. they are either too eepy to be fazed, or seem extremely used to this kind of remark. but okay being straddled is new. the ticking sound accelerates just slightly. on edge, but about as on edge as you can be while simultaneously fighting sleep. ]

< What does kissing... >

[ have to do with it?

that seems silly - the very concept of that. sounds fairytale and foreign because none of the stories that dante has born witness too have ever been anything but a lesson in the follies and sins of humanity. even then, those stories are all real. who has time to read anymore?

the nature of this place is so bizarre.

(can you really even talk? they ask themself.) the ticking pauses. and then again - ]

< Really... really hoping that's not the case... weird... you can understand me... >