a little here, a little there

I try not to make a point of mulling over the day's devoirs unless I have to, or unless they really were particularly interesting and life-changing (well, and if I face facts, not only is everything we do every single day on Mira some sort of life-changing, a lot of the time it is literally like that, which is to say, life-saving) and there's a point to making a note of it.

Today? Today was like any other day. Sort of mildly busy, with time set aside for a Seren Sirius fashion show (Bargain Hoodie or Redesigned? Maybe try on Feru's Formal Suit? And which sunglasses are really the most stylish?) that even Commander Vandham got in on.

It was a lot of people work, today. Not so much on hunting. A lot of trolling the city for any tasks I might have forgotten to sniff out - and where the heck is Mia, anyway?!

I just have to trust that she'll find her way back to me herself, eventually. I'll just keep walking and talking.

Quince told me about Gina, so then I wanted to know about Gina, and I looked for her in Barista Court for what felt like half an hour but must have been days, and I never found her, but while I was looking, I talked to Powell, and what he said made me want to look for Gerome, so then I did, but I couldn't find him either, until I did. And then that was Duduma, whose face I never even got a good look at and whose profile Ackwar only provided as a passing mention, since we had to find the Ma-non killer, obviously.

Meanwhile, murder afoot, I find Pirapira digging in a dumpster, but she doesn't want food, no - she wants Miralife cards! I was only half listening, but I knew I had the Meteo Eaters and the Coaletri, since my inventory is just as complete as my collectopedia. So, blah blah blah, find Liviana instead, and what do you know, she's got the Cinicula card!

Paqu Qadossi had mentioned about her husband playing the game, so I got on the track of looking for him, instead of talking to her. Ended up completely scrapping my first real tip on Warawa's request! But sitting next to Mikkal was Capsica, and then I got curious about Pepper and Wilbur (I'm still curious about Pepper and Wilbur), and then it was all over, for Ton'barac's enlightenment, way faster than I ever thought it would be.

(Side note here: I thought Tika had what I wanted, and wanted what I had, but she just had what I already had, and even if I feel about equally partial to Mortifoles and Simius, it's not full circle that she wanted what I wanted. As if Orphe don't warble about "my Ovah" when thinking of humanity's future, anyway.)

Between pizza delivery, trading card games, and staged suicides, I'm not sure I feel like the most businesslike of BLADEs, today. But, then, I've never been very interested in that. Leave it up to Elma, Irina, Eleonora, even Commander Birtwhistle over there.

I like completing tasks, just like anybody else - doesn't everybody love completing tasks? You might say that if everyone loves it, nobody loves it, but I think it must be one of those human proto-motor skills, like finding patterns and slotting wooden blocks into the right shaped holes.

Anyone can do what a BLADE can do, when it comes to pretending to be a Mediator. Even if I don't like pretending to be a Mediator, because it makes it seem like being a Mediator means nothing at all.

But COME ON, though. Anybody in or out of their right mind would be melting at what Ackwar said - how his ultimate expression of love for Yuyu was to build (or was it buy? well, and neither of those made very much sense, anyway) a house with a pizza oven included, so they could do the very most Miran of Ma-non things together, forever, or at least until they got full.

So many missions have come and gone with the people involved playing dead, or presumed dead, or cloned dead, or Definian dead, or, or, or...

(Or, y'know, Eddie dead. But.)

I don't want to be jaded, but how is it fair that Yuyu had to be actually strung up, while Ackwar was just faking it?

Obviously, to catch the killer, but sometimes it feels like none of the things I do on purpose are the things that actually matter. Like disarming the bomb on Gerome, for instance - I don't remember ever being taught how to do that, or even walking by someone gabbing about it, and I have to tell you, it's not really all that intuitive!

Maybe it's intuitive for a mim, since half the ones that're powered on are ex-military, in some way or another. Maybe it's intuition for artificial soldiers.

Maybe I've got nothing but.

Trade Agreement - Warawa, Liviana, Pirapira, Capsica, Wilbur, Ton'barac (Tika, Paqu Qadossi, Pepper)
Murder Most Foul - bomb disarming info