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[synanthrope]

I turned 27 three days ago. Usually Socrates reminds me - I get distracted and I don't realize my birthday is passing. This year it was cars and curses. I've been repairing the body and engine of an off-roading vehicle, and the smell of the blood in the backseat the work has been engrossing. He gave me a pair of seashell earrings last year, ones he found and harvested himself. They were pale and made of the Glory of the Sea.

The odd thing is that I'm fairly sure I've turned 27 here before, but that was years ago. So am I in my thirties, now? I suppose it doesn't matter. I'll calculate the numbers. I'm 27.

There's a cake. I think it's chocolate.

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[synanthrope]

Why do you think people are so hung up on the idea of sex?

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[bitesvampires.livejournal.com]

Because it's enjoyable, I assume, and considered wholly perverse. Is there anything more satisfying than knowing innumerable amounts of people would frown upon your actions? Perhaps everyone wishes to become goblin men and goblin women — it sounds far more fun than being respectable, doesn't it?

That said, I don't know. Most people here are from a different time. It's almost funny how some things stay the same.

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[synanthrope]

I like it. I have it. Explain the morality of denying myself the pleasure.

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[bitesvampires.livejournal.com]

I shan't, because it'd be wholly hypocritical — and it's not something I can indulge in by myself now, is it?

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[synanthrope]

I don't understand why people say it in the first place.

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[bitesvampires.livejournal.com]

Appearances and expectations. The body and soul should be separate — what business does the soul have in deriving pleasure from the body? I've never cared much for my soul, though, so in my case, I doubt it makes a difference.

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[synanthrope]

Human souls should be a bit more resilient than that.

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[bitesvampires.livejournal.com]

Ought they?

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[synanthrope]

Isn't yours?

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[bitesvampires.livejournal.com]

Mine? [A note of genuine surprise.] I wouldn't know about, nor care for, the state of mine.

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[synanthrope]

If you don't know, who would?

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[bitesvampires.livejournal.com]

I suppose it'll remain one of life's great mysteries.

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[synanthrope]

That would be much more interesting, I suppose.

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[bitesvampires.livejournal.com]

You don't like answers, Saya?

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[synanthrope]

I do.

But I also like questions like the one you asked.

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[bitesvampires.livejournal.com]

I was simply parroting the opinions of others. They tend to be quite firm on the matter.

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[synanthrope]

I don't care about firm opinions of others. I care about yours, right now, firm or not.

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[bitesvampires.livejournal.com]

On which matter, exactly?

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[synanthrope]

On whatever question I choose to ask, of course.

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[bitesvampires.livejournal.com]

Then by all means, ask away.

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[synanthrope]

Oh, Mr. Herondale.

I'd hate for you to be uncomfortable.

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[bitesvampires.livejournal.com]

That's very kind.

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[synanthrope]

You'll be the first to think so.

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[bitesvampires.livejournal.com]

That's rather disheartening.

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[synanthrope]

Is it? It might say things about me, wouldn't it?