good morning everyone

[warmfeelings]

Chelsa has just finished the morning announcements. She loves doing the morning announcements; it's like piping hot coffee, the rise in the world's warmth. Most of it is for Aelise, of course, but Chelsa gets her own share, and of course she's not selfish, everyone loves their neighbors too. Everyone gets along so well.

She is on her way from the broadcasting studio where she does her announcements to the living quarters where she keeps her dearest friends. She makes sure to pay them plenty of attention. They watch the announcements - everyone does, unless they are doing some sort of emergency work right at that moment, and then they're caught up as soon as possible with the next installment - but they're kept closer and need more fine detail work to stay happy with her. It is terribly important that they be happy with her.

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[guiltless]

Snuzzle! Confused snuzzle.

[salus_populi]

After about an hour and a lot more screaming, Aelise leaves.

[warmfeelings]

Chelsa decides to let whatever just happened filter to her at some more convenient time. Aelise has good judgment about these things.

[alicornucopia]

Tima, on the other hand, drops by Corona's room and knocks curiously.

[pythbox]

Corona answers the door and smiles tiredly when he sees who it is.

[alicornucopia]

"Hi!" Hug. "Welcome home. What's going on?"

[pythbox]

"I'm not really sure," Corona says wryly. "Um - that's Harley," with a gesture to the very Corona-like figure curled up in his bed. "He fell out of thin air a while ago. He's almost exactly like me, except his Gift is different."

[alicornucopia]

"That's peculiar," says Tima, sidling in and sitting down. "What does he do?"

[pythbox]

"He's immortal. And not the same way as Luhan - Aelise was just in here draining him, she must've done it like thirty times, and he just bounces right back."

[alicornucopia]

"Wow. That explains the screaming, I thought you were just having fun with self-mutilation again."

[pythbox]

Corona giggles. "Nope, it was all him."

[alicornucopia]

"Is he okay? I mean, physically intact yes, but - okay?"

[pythbox]

"...Not really," he says. "He's - well, he's like me. And Chelsa wants to keep him and he really doesn't want to be kept. But the draining was fine," he adds. "He liked that."

[alicornucopia]

"If he's just infinitely renewable I guess Luhan's going to leave, isn't he," Tima remarks. "I still don't really get what you have against Chelsa. Either of you, I guess. You're full of contradictions."

[pythbox]

"She's a fucking mind rapist," snarls Harley from the bed.

Corona looks conflicted, but he doesn't actually disagree.

[alicornucopia]

"Oh, you talk," says Tima. "So where are you from?"

[pythbox]

Harley sighs.

"Everybody keeps asking me that," he says.

[alicornucopia]

"Well, you don't have to tell me, but it seemed worth asking."

[pythbox]

"I am not feeling super sociable right now," Harley says flatly. Corona winces.

[alicornucopia]

"Uh," says Tima. "If it bothers you when Chelsa kindles you, can I give you some advice? Pretend to be sociable when she's around. She doesn't like it when people aren't getting along."

[pythbox]

"How about I just set her on fire instead," says Harley, with a tone of deliberately false cheer.

[alicornucopia]

Tima winces. "I get that you have mixed feelings about her but - dude, that's a little much. Besides, Kers covers her."

[pythbox]

"Yeah, I know," says Harley. "If she wasn't magically invincible I wouldn't be joking about it, I'd've fucking done it already."

[alicornucopia]

Tima looks away. She's used to Corona, but Corona doesn't talk like that.

[pythbox]

Corona sighs.

"See?" he says. "It's awful, he's even worse off than me."