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[starmark]

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want to hear about this trick i can do with five cigarettes

[manuscripture]

That depends on what you do with them and where they are going.

[starmark]

i light them and then flip them into my mouth without burning myself

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oh

i guess that's a lot less cool now that i'm fireproof

huh

[manuscripture]

Why would you ever do that AT ALL?

[starmark]

it's a talent

did you think playing the guitar was my only talent??

[manuscripture]

Playing the guitar is a talent. Eating cigarettes is not.

Your breath must have been terrible.

[starmark]

it's not eating them

you hold them down near the base with your tongue

[manuscripture]

Except if one falls down your throat you'll burn it up. That's nasty.

Not anymore since you're a dragon but you're not smoking in this house.

[starmark]

nothing's going to fall down my throat

have you noticed i've been getting better at regulating the heat in the house

[manuscripture]

I have.

It makes me miss vacationing in the Bahamas without the sunburn. You really have been getting a hang on your gargoyle powers, haven't you? There has been no setting the curtains on fire, no wings knocking my shit over, no abundance of smoke anywhere in the house or melting the couch.

Is someone teaching you, or did you learn about it in the book?

[starmark]

you vacationed in the bahamas?

no one's teaching me, i've just been figuring it out. the book helped but a lot of it is just trial and error

[manuscripture]

I used to travel all the time. I loved going to other countries or vacation spots when I wasn't working. I stuck mainly around Europe but I would go to tourist spots like the Keys or Fiji on and off if I had the taste for it.

Your progress has been impressive. I have been keeping track of it. Good job.

[starmark]

we traveled a lot heading for cairo. it should've just been an easy plane trip but we ended up having to hop from city to city all across asia just to get there

the keys is florida, right

tell me about florida

[manuscripture]

They are sort of between the end of the Everglades and the Gulf of Mexico. An archipelago that ranges all the way toward Cuba.

The state itself is either hot or rainy and hot. I never went anywhere without an umbrella. It's actually too touristy for me. I don't like visiting America all that much. New York is better. Since I travel to take the edge off, going elsewhere like the islands is much better.

They are known for their beaches and ecotourism. You know-- Diving, fishing, dolphin-watching. It is more tropical and less rainy. It gives more of an opportunity to be outside and enjoy the sunlight, the flowers, and watching the animals.





I miss it.

[starmark]

ecotourism

that sounds




did you know a dolphin won't let a swimmer drown

[manuscripture]

No.

Why would I know that?

I've seen a dolphin like twice and I've never felt like trying to drown in front of it.

You are really into the ocean back at home too. It carried over.

[starmark]

it's interesting

the ocean, i mean

if you cut off a starfish's limb, it'll eventually grow that limb back, but if you cut off its limb and catch some of its center ring in the division, it'll grow back into two separate starfish

why don't humans do that? we're more advanced organisms than starfish. why can't we figure out how they do it and use that to grow new limbs for people who lose theirs?

there are turtles that live for thousands of years because they don't age. if aging is caused by the deterioration of cells and slight corruptions in dna that cause them to grow back imperfect later, then in these turtles, their cells don't deteriorate and their dna never corrupts. they die from injuries and predators, but not of old age. they don't die

why haven't people figured out how to do that?

but...it's possible

it's possible because it already exists, it's out there in the ocean and we just barely know it. we've mapped the continents and spread civilization over the land and learned the terrain but the ocean is still a mystery and we just, we don't know what's down there and

i think it's interesting, i guess

i guess future me does too

[manuscripture]

[ Holy Shit ]

We technically know more about the moon than we do the ocean. You know, there are millions of plants in the rainforests that could cure diseases but we don't go out and use them.

We don't know what's in those either. I've seen the rainforest. They're just as mysterious as your oceans.

Future you is literally a scientist-- or is working on it --so I would suffice it to say that, yes, future you thinks it's interesting.

[starmark]

have you ever seen a desert? a hot desert, like the sahara

[manuscripture]

The one climate I have not been in is a desert.

You mentioned you went to Cairo?

[starmark]

yeah. we went through the sahara part of the way

we got held up when i had to fight a guy but

i guess what's weird is that they're both so vast and so...lonely

but the desert is just empty

the ocean is full, and there's nothing in a desert that can compare to the feeling of warm saltwater holding you up

[manuscripture]

Don't you find it funny how people consider the ocean to be empty and lonely?

It is part of why people never go sailing. Part of why they don't swim. There is nothing there, and yet underneath them, it is teaming with more creatures than anyone could ever grasp in both hands.

They are afraid of both what is and is not in it.

It's almost a paradox.

[starmark]

it's a different kind of empty and lonely. it's deceptive. empty without ever being empty at all.

you sound like you're starting to like it

the ocean, i mean

[manuscripture]

I like the things I cannot put a finger on right away.

The things that make no sense or have a way about them that is not easily identifiable.

I do like it.

The ocean.

It makes me wish I visited more often or went sailing.

[starmark]

sailing sounds like

like it'd be interesting, i mean




i like reading about boats too