What's that genre even like? People getting into fights over things they misheard and then they make out passionately against a backdrop of a sunset or something?
What's so special about that? Then again, there are those novels where its like, "check out this bad boy cowboy and how he charms the socks off the local lady in town" or something. Guess you don't always need riches.
Life is filled with good and bad things. Bad things aren't there to prop up the good things. Sometimes, things are just bad. But life, overall, is good, I think.
[ ... she closes her eyes for a moment, like she's thinking that over.
there are a lot of things she remembers fondly, but there are a lot of things that she... doesn't. she's not sure she wants to collect all of them and weigh the balance of good and bad, especially when she's working from incomplete and fractured memories anyway. ]
Maybe.
There's normally something good to find somewhere though, but you do have to go out of your way to really look sometimes.
In some cases, that's right. Sometimes, you have to keep running at the mirages in the hopes that one will really be an oasis. But...I think that's worth it. Hope keeps one going, even in the worst times.
[He leans a little more onto the railing, propping his chin up with a hand.]
Sometimes a little is all you need. But...you have a point. We're all built differently. I'm literally built differently. Some of us can take it better than others.
Its just up to those kinds of people to help those who can't deal with things as terrible as that.
Haha. Well, I'll teach you how to punch hard. Promise. That way, you encounter a problem trying to drag you down, you just bop it right in the snout. Just like that. Otherwise...you're a strong lady, Alex. I believe in you.
That's the best thing to have! Make the element of surprise your friend, and you can never go wrong.
[And a long pause. They've been talking for a while, and now with the silence, he just reminds him...all of that execution stuff happened. It seems like ages ago.]
...I feel like I've aged years, these past two weeks.
[ ... she just closes her eyes at that. two weeks. that's no time at all, but it feels like it's been longer. ]
I'd thought things were bad back home but... [ this is something else. she lifts her hand and tucks his hair behind his ear, knuckles brushing against his temple. ] It's not going to stop now, is it? I'd hoped it would be a one off, but... [ once a stone's rolling down a hill, it just gains momentum. it doesn't stop. ]
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[Just. Deadpan.]
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[ hit that demographic running. ]
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Or some kind of weird power fantasy where one of them’s super rich so you get to write about fancy penthouses and helicopters.
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[Reaching for the wine. Give it to him, please.]
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still, she hands the bottle over. ]
If I knew maybe I’d have started a lucrative career writing these things.
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[He takes a quick swig.]
It doesn't seem that hard. They all seem based on templates, anyways. Like fill in the blank. Real romance must be far more messier.
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When is real life ever that simple?
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[He's handing back the bottle.]
But that's what's special about life too, huh? It might be complicated, but...it just makes you appreciate it all the more.
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[ she doesn’t drink from the bottle, she just turns it around and around in her hands, almost idly ]
That sort of makes sense.
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[He shakes his head.]
Life is filled with good and bad things. Bad things aren't there to prop up the good things. Sometimes, things are just bad. But life, overall, is good, I think.
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there are a lot of things she remembers fondly, but there are a lot of things that she... doesn't. she's not sure she wants to collect all of them and weigh the balance of good and bad, especially when she's working from incomplete and fractured memories anyway. ]
Maybe.
There's normally something good to find somewhere though, but you do have to go out of your way to really look sometimes.
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[He leans a little more onto the railing, propping his chin up with a hand.]
Its such a powerful, powerful thing.
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[ she's... well, she's seen people go so deep into despair they can't come back. but she's only ever seen it from outside, looking in. ]
We're all different though. I guess that applies to the levels of how much disappointment or sadness someone to take as well.
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Its just up to those kinds of people to help those who can't deal with things as terrible as that.
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As long as no one expects me to literally punch terrible things with the same kind of power you can, I'll probably manage.
[ she already has dealt with... well. enough. she can keep it up, if she has to. ]
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Haha. Well, I'll teach you how to punch hard. Promise. That way, you encounter a problem trying to drag you down, you just bop it right in the snout. Just like that. Otherwise...you're a strong lady, Alex. I believe in you.
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...
But I don't think they'd expect me to punch them, so maybe the element of surprise will carry me through.
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[And a long pause. They've been talking for a while, and now with the silence, he just reminds him...all of that execution stuff happened. It seems like ages ago.]
...I feel like I've aged years, these past two weeks.
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I'd thought things were bad back home but... [ this is something else. she lifts her hand and tucks his hair behind his ear, knuckles brushing against his temple. ] It's not going to stop now, is it? I'd hoped it would be a one off, but... [ once a stone's rolling down a hill, it just gains momentum. it doesn't stop. ]