voice

[underspring]

Hello. Have many of you already forgotten your weekends? How strange, and no good for the upcoming ones. You should all try to prepare. How about rosemary? Or blueberries. Both are very good for thinking.

Or even... blueberry jam and cream in a scone served with rosemary tea. Yes, doesn't that sound very good? I feel brighter already.

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[novelist]

Things like that often happen often, yes. When others search for something, they often find everything but what they've wanted to find.

[underspring]

That's not true. They just find it a different way.

[novelist]

....

You're perhaps the first woman I've met here who's so optimistic, heheh.... It's a bit of a treat to speak to someone like this.

[underspring]

Oh my? How flattering. But it's true, there is only one me.

[novelist]

I'm known to be brutally honest, and that hasn't changed here, heheh.... Though, what you've said "there is only one me" can be claimed for all that have been taken here.

[underspring]

Unless there's two of them, or three.

[novelist]

Then, you can't exactly call yourself "myself" anymore, can you?

[underspring]

Does that stop twins?

[novelist]

[ a chuckle ] Though, they are one in the same, they don't normally call themselves that.

[underspring]

Ah, wouldn't it be delightful to be a twin of yourself? Twice as much.

[novelist]

That would be a life saver. My tales would be woven without any delay, and Child of Man could read my novels as quickly as they wished to devour them.

[underspring]

Eating books doesn't sound appetising at all. But then, I'd have to share what I eat, too.

Maybe it isn't such a good idea after all.

[novelist]

But if Child of Man didn't devour books and savor knowledge, they would not amount of anything. After all, all the knowledge we can have now from the past and present is from learning through books, isn't it?

[underspring]

Sometimes, a friend brings me strips with pictures when they fall through. Those are delightful to read.

[novelist]

Ah? A comic? I suppose those can be entertaining in their own right.

[underspring]

I've heard they're popular with the tengu. Do you know if any are here?

[novelist]

Tengu? ... Unfortunately not. Mythical creatures are common in your world?

[underspring]

Oh, all sorts, though the tengu are above, not below.

[novelist]

Then, who are below them?