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[divinestrike]

That's true. I'm not going to follow you around to make sure you don't. Just don't.

[feistro]

i suppose i could oblige, just this once.

[divinestrike]

I appreciate it. About as much as I appreciate how modest your ballad is. Makes me sound normal, for once, instead of something I'm not.

[feistro]

how would you like someone to describe you?

[divinestrike]

As a normal person? Nothing too dramatic would be nice.

[feistro]

you can do better than that. use your words. you must know some good ones.

[divinestrike]

I'm not a wordsmith. I guess I'd be satisfied with people just saying I'm a tiefling who wants better for my people and one day hope to see a world where we're more accepted. My wants are simple.

[feistro]

you might be surprised what someone who ain't a wordsmith can do when they put their mind to it. but for now, i guess you can leave the words to me.

unless you got a better wordsmith in that camp of yours.

[divinestrike]

I'm inclined to leave the words to anyone who isn't me, honestly. And it seems like I'm surrounded by wordsmiths. I could listen to all of them go on for hours, so I've just come to assume they're all masters of conversation.

[And she, decisively, is not. But it is very likely that Nepione, as per an alarming usual, is discrediting herself.]

[feistro]

think i found a new word to describe you

excusatory

[divinestrike]

That's a new one. Can I ask what it means?

[feistro]

it means you tend to come up with excuses rather than accept something, like a compliment.

[divinestrike]

That's. Not wholly untrue, I guess. I don't really know how to handle compliments. Easier to handle just about anything else, though. I don't dislike compliments. Just not good with them!

[feistro]

[Pom might not know a lot of things -- and fakes it accordingly -- but he knows that much is true.]

good thing i'm great with compliments. let's do a little exercise, how about

i'll say i think you got nice hair

now what do you think you say?

[divinestrike]

[...She should hit him for this. She really should.]

I guess I would just say 'thank you?'
This isn't something that requires an exercise, you know.

[feistro]

[And he would absolutely deserve it, to be fair.]

i don't know, seems like it worked to me. got a thank you without all that fanfare about how you think someone else has better hair or how you don't know a thing about doing anything but a braid

so when i say i think you know enough words that you could come up with something nice to say about yourself, you say...

[divinestrike]

I say this is ridiculous and you're making a big thing out of nothing. Hasn't it ever occurred to you that perhaps I just don't want to talk about myself? I've lived with myself. I'm much more fascinated in you or any of the others. I don't need to discuss myself because I already know who and what I am.

[Bzzt—that's not the right answer, or at least not the one he's looking for and she knows it.]