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[aero_dienamic]

[[It has been a good couple of weeks since the experiment with being a family. Even mother's day had passed by, much to Val's unnoticing. She'd been distracted from life at home, mostly looking into, and around, this marriage thing.

She didn't get it. Of course, she hadn't considered going to read a book on it, but, she also assumed that wouldn't get her anywhere either.

Well, two weeks is plenty of procrastination on this topic... Though, surely her silence and pondering might've caused some concern with Kirimi and Neliel.]]

I'm sorry to be a bother while everyone's busy greeting the New Feathers, but I want to ask something. What's the purpose of marriage? I understand that it's what two people do when they love eachother enough, but, what makes it any different from being a boyfriend, or girlfriend.

Honestly, if you truly have no desire to be apart from the one you love, why is that something people resort too?

I suppose this last experiment left me a little confused about the subject. Not that... I'm opposed, mind you... That is... marrying Nel, but... I don't know why it's necessary...

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[aero-dienamic.livejournal.com]

Of course. You didn't give me reason not to. And... its a little flattering the way you first looked at me.

[[Val draws back a little, to smile.]] This... hmm... you know I don't mean ill, but, why don't I adopt you too. It may not be the same, but at least while you're here, you'll have a family to go to.

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[daisy023]

[It was more confusion what she felt at first. She was a being of mythology, and a conflict on the Spartan's senses. For five years she thought all non-human sentients were monsters. But now this one was becoming family.

Daisy blushes at the thought. She thought for a long time that such chance was gone.]

Am I not too old for that?

[Then again... In a way, something even Halsey noted in spite of their stoicism, Spartans sometimes resembled children.]

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[aero-dienamic.livejournal.com]

I don't know. Do you think you are? [[And she's smiling anyway.]]

I'm sure there's room in the house, though, you're probably too well settled into your apartment to want to move.

But, I don't think age is an issue here. Technically I'm only three. [[*pose*]] And nobody seems to have a problem with that.

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[daisy023]

... Good point.

[Smart AI's lived to be seven, at most, yet they behaved like adults. Val was little different.

But, she thinks about Val's offer. It's been two years since people began appearing in this place, and she had just arrived four months ago. No one among the New Feather waves had been from even her continuity. And the fact she would die when this place found no use for her.]

I'm good enough with the apartment. [She preferred the private space to work. But even that place turned lonely.] But... Do you mean it? After everything?

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[aero-dienamic.livejournal.com]

Of course I mean it. It'd be silly if I just said that and took it back.

No, that'd just be evil. And... well that's a time long behind me now. I wouldn't do something like that. Especially not to you.

[[Val offers a shorter hug before pulling away again.]] So, are you ready to come back now, Daisy?

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[daisy023]

[Meiling was right. It was a second chance to live her life. This could be the family she had always wanted.]

I'd like that.

[She smiles, embracing the hug. Valvalis had turned into something as close to her as a non-Spartan outsider can be.

Family.

After all the days she had wandered the mountains, seeking counsel from her training, from her memories, and from Kippin... Daisy is finally happy.]

I am.