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[selfpreservationist]

Sometime, yes. I enjoy music... well, not all music. Classical music in particular.

What about you? What hobbies do you enjoy here? Working out early in the morning doesn't count.

[softlyfalling]

Er... reading, I suppose. I suppose I do enjoy cooking for people... also, I guess, taking pictures to remember things by.

...sometimes I write poetry, but it's a little embarrassing.

[selfpreservationist]

I know that feeling. I've tried to write a bit, myself... but I threw it all away.

[softlyfalling]

I'm sure it wasn't that bad. Though I suppose it depends on what you're writing for.

[selfpreservationist]

It wasn't something I wanted anyone else to read. I haven't gotten to the point where I think any of it is good enough to show off.

Nero told me there's a tradition with poetry, where you're from.

[softlyfalling]

Ah—something you send to lovers, you mean.

There's plenty of other reasons to write, it, too, but—well, I suppose that's why I started.

[selfpreservationist]

... to lovers, hm.

[softlyfalling]

A long tradition of beautiful romance and extremely saucy verse, in some cases.

...I won't pry, if you don't want me to.

[selfpreservationist]

[--chuckles, surprised]

That's my line. All the romantic and... saucy... poems I know are all written by masters of the craft.

[softlyfalling]

Mm... well, I'm definitely not a master of the craft, but maybe for that sort of thing, it's that it conveys what you feel that matters?

[ and there's the station. ]

...maybe it's similar to why I take photographs. I don't think I'm that good at it, but they mean something to me, so it matters?

[selfpreservationist]

You enjoy photography?

[softlyfalling]

It was something I had to learn, but... I suppose I like having a reminder of good memories, to make them... feel more real.

[selfpreservationist]

... can I see them?

[softlyfalling]

Oh, um—sure, if you'd like, although they're nothing special...

[ she passes him her phone—

there's some pictures from some things that seem like dress-up events, wherein she's dressed ordinarily but posed with a younger boy in a butler outfit and one with Persephone in a maid dress. then a few where she's wearing a very short dress at what looks like a party, at times accompanied by Nero or the short reddish-haired girl from sensitIV; one of a very nice tea set on a table; a slightly grainy outdoors photo of lanterns floating into the sky; sprouts in the dirt.

she seems to take a lot of candids from around the avante dorm, too, which include some cute photos of Nero in the kitchen or fallen asleep covered in kittens probably. ]

[selfpreservationist]

[he scrolls through them, his expression getting softer and softer]

These pictures... they tell me a lot about what kind of person you are.

[softlyfalling]

Oh, I, er—hope that's a good thing.

[selfpreservationist]

It is. But, to be fair, I... thought you were someone worth admiring before.

[softlyfalling]

Ah—you're really too kind...

[ GEEZ!!! ]

I'm just... trying to keep in mind the beautiful things about living, and this helps.

[selfpreservationist]

[...

squeezes her hand]

Maybe I should give it a try. There's a camera in my phone, too, after all.

[softlyfalling]

[ huffs lightly, ]

Well, I can only recommend it, I suppose, and—

It wouldn't be bad to have some kind of commemorative photo from this, actually.

[selfpreservationist]

[hands her back her phone]

Want to take one now?

[softlyfalling]

Oh, that sounds... great, actually.

[ she fiddles with her phone, flips it to the camera, and turns it sideways in one hand, holding it out to get both of them in frame. ]

All right, three, two, one—

[selfpreservationist]

[remembers he's supposed to look AT the camera and smile a split-second before she takes it]

[softlyfalling]

[ grinning: ] Not used to it either, huh?

[selfpreservationist]

Apparently not. Here, let's take another one for my phone.

[he fiddles with his phone until he can pull up the camera app and mimic what shrike did a second ago]