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[treadingdawn]

I have one. Does anyone else?

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[forthathorizon.livejournal.com]

To be honest it is as fine as my hair.

[morsmordre-met.livejournal.com]

Then no need to mend what's not broken, eh?

Portraits of European Emperors frequently show them with beards. Sign of maturity, see?

[forthathorizon.livejournal.com]

Perhaps although I am not particularly old.

[morsmordre-met.livejournal.com]

Maturity's got little to do with age, though, my Lord.

Why, I'd say - with some reason, I'd say you're fairly mature already.

[forthathorizon.livejournal.com]

I don't think we have known each other for long enough to say, Tom, but thank you.

[morsmordre-met.livejournal.com]

Well, I'd say that of anyone here, actually, my Lord. You don't think it's a telling sign of maturity to adapt to the strange circumstance of this world? Why, some people do more than carry on, from what I've read in the guide. I've been told they actually make an opportunity out of their distress here.

What's maturity if not making ends meet when chance is against you?

[forthathorizon.livejournal.com]

That would depend on the change. Some do learn to adapt, to carry on in the best way possible, to make the most of what we have here... Others I think may consider this world a place where they may shirk duties and responsibilities. It matters what you keep within your sight.

[morsmordre-met.livejournal.com]

I'm sure there can't be many who take that turn, Lord Emperor. You can't go on in this world assuming everyone's going to do wrong by you at every turn. I don't suppose I'd want to be mature, if it meant that mindset.

[forthathorizon.livejournal.com]

Some do consider these curses, even the most harmless ones, a means of breaking the spirit. I disagree with that feeling, sometimes.

[morsmordre-met.livejournal.com]

There are certainly that seem on the grotesque side of, well, everything. Take the putrefaction curses everyone's mentioned come around Halloween, for example. I suppose they could provide a deeper understanding of death, why, it might even make a select few come to terms with it. There are no terms. But I expect that a majority would simply say they're a gruesome thing.

[forthathorizon.livejournal.com]

I think facing death through a curse is a bit different from having it in your own life, in your own world, where death is less of a temporary thing. People do not come back so easily in mine. But I do not mean to speak of somber things.

[morsmordre-met.livejournal.com]

It's... not nearly as somber as you might think. Death's a reality, isn't it, my Lord? We've got to be prepared.

[forthathorizon.livejournal.com]

That's true too.