the sum of our parts is greater, but a few of them might have been broken

[overworker]

[Immediately following the strange insanity that took place in the aftermath of that trial, Towa decides that enough is enough-- she has to attempt to do what she can do. For too long she's let herself be daunted by her own abilities or lack thereof... but she can't do that anymore. If she can support everyone, even in any small way, then she's going to do that now.

Before they're dismissed she calls out to the group--]

I'm going to prepare the lounge for a proper meeting. It'll take me a little bit to get everything set up but please... I want everyone to come. We have a lot to talk about and I don't want anyone shouldering this burden alone.

[And as soon as that's done, she gets to work. Coffee, tea, soup, cookies... she prepares a small, but fairly simple collection of foods as quickly as she can and works to make the space as comfortable as possible. It feels like a lifetime ago she did this the first time. A lot has changed but some things really haven't. If anyone would like to help, she certainly wouldn't turn away the help.]

Comments

[technicolourdifficulties]

I am not old, I'll have you know!

[He kinda is.]

[katzenpfote]

Well, you're possibly older than me. I was feeling a little bit... what's the phrase in Common... put out? By all of these teenagers running around. Making me feel old and creaky.

[technicolourdifficulties]

[That soothes his grumping enough to get him to smile with a bit of a conspiratorial edge.]

A good thing Cell cannot hear you from where she is at the moment. That elderly Erinaceinae would have both our hides for that remark.

[katzenpfote]

Erinaceinae? What is that?

[technicolourdifficulties]

Do you know what a porcupine or a hedgehog is?

[Things he did not expect to maybe have to explain today: this.]

[katzenpfote]

Oh, those I know. The name was just... unfamiliar. That name you used.

[technicolourdifficulties]

It's their scientific classification.

[katzenpfote]

I've never heard that. What sort of language is that in?

[technicolourdifficulties]

Latin. Presumably they use it because it is, outside of academics, functionally dead. It's descendants are doing well for themselves, but I have yet to see a world where Latin is not all but buried.

[katzenpfote]

Someone mentioned that language before. It sounds a bit like Celestial to me, but it doesn't exist in my world.

[technicolourdifficulties]

That's not surprising, all things considered.

[That sure is a vague response there, Jeebs.]

[katzenpfote]

What do you mean by that?