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[mansuetus]

Tranquility.

[ Lucrezia Borgia's hair is braided and her silks are pink as her cheeks. ]

The fireflies had returned to us. To them and to those who had been asleep, Ben Tornati! as you all have been so direly missed. I would hear that you are well from your lips or through the firefly.

To all others, I offer a trade.

I would hear of your name. I heard so many names since my arrival here and yet I never asked for their meaning in your respective languages. I would listen and tell you of my own, if you care to hear it.

[ but then she seems a bit bothered by something, as if she had realized something is missing. ]

I have no words of poetry to offer today, what a shame.

[ give her a moment before she'll smile and, lifting her chin with mischief in her eyes, speak the next words in Latin before shutting down her firefly. ]

quae bello est habilis, Veneri quoque convenit aetas.

( The age which is apt for war, is also suitable for Love. )

Comments

[mansuetus]

Not everyone but quite a lot of names have meanings. You do not have to remember them all. I like knowing them, to know if the meaning fits the person they were given to.

[walksonrooftops]

A name that doesn't fit who you are must be like a curse. [It's a little bit of superstition, something cats like him aren't all too unknown for, though there's doubt in his words as well. What if people just don't know?]

I want to learn the meanings of things. I'm...not very good with words. But you know the meanings of a lot of words. How?

[mansuetus]

I can teach you, if you would like.

[ she smiles, excited about the idea, something to do. ]

The meanings that I know. There are many I do not, but those that I do, I can teach you.

[walksonrooftops]

I'd like that. [And he smiles right back. Words have been his enemy more times than he can count, and he doesn't know how much he'll understand once she starts trying to explain, but still--he wants to try, at least.]

I want to learn the ones that you know. If it isn't too much trouble to you.

[mansuetus]

If it was a trouble I wouldn't have offered. It would give me something else to do during the day. We can meet in one of the lounges.

[walksonrooftops]

If you tell me where to go, then I'll be there. Definitely. [A happy swish of his tail follows.]

Do you live far up? I can come to you.

[mansuetus]

Not very far. Where do you reside?

[walksonrooftops]

I'm on the first passenger deck.