branding lady, meet meek little lamb

[mxglam]

Glam isn't allowed to actually patrol the following day (it's a Sunday), so they mostly browse the 'net and read books. Echo's busy with her family (and she is allowed to go out patrolling), and Lorica's... doing something.

They're slightly worried about the fact that Yates hasn't replied to their email, but it's the weekend, so maybe that's why.

Has she replied to the email by Monday?

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[alicornucopia]

"Well, you seem much improved today," says Yates briskly. "Have a good evening, Glam, Lorica."

[mxglam]

"You, too," says the only remaining Sadde.

[thinkering]

And Lorica ushers them out of the office.

"That went well," she comments.

[mxglam]

"Yes. Yes it did."

[thinkering]

"You okay?"

[mxglam]

"...I will be. Not very nice to notice that there is such an obvious trigger I'd managed to completely neglect to notice."

[thinkering]

"Huh?"

[mxglam]

"Well I don't think she and I are going to be best friends or anything, and I understand what you mean about video game boss..."

Loen appears, new costume and all. "...but I think it's pretty clear that I'm at fault for last time."

"It was probably gender plus authority not meshing very well with my personality but that's..."

"Kinda exactly the point."

[thinkering]

"I mean - most people can seem reasonable when they get whatever they want. She wasn't reasonable when she didn't."

[mxglam]

"Well, the two mes idea was actually mine."

"And anyway I should have been able to handle that conversation better than I did."

"But I can't in good conscience say that she can't listen to and accept solutions she didn't originate."

[thinkering]

"Yeah."

[mxglam]

Loen disappears. "So, uh, strike against my self image yay." Sigh. "But I guess it's not always that I can improve without my previous disposition causing me problems."

[thinkering]

"It's not always what?"

[mxglam]

"Like- sometimes I can introspect and think about some aspect of myself and go, 'Hm, this should not be here, I should change it.' But sometimes I only notice there's something that needs changing after it bites me in the butt. The former feels nice and good and yay I am good at self, but the latter feels more like I am a moron for not having noticed it before it caused trouble."

[thinkering]

"Well, you have a leg up on people who never figure out how to work on themselves at all."

[mxglam]

"I guess. I feel like this is mostly due to practice with my power. Forcing my brain to change the way it works and such."

[thinkering]

"I rearrange my brain now and then and it's not a power requirement."

[mxglam]

"That's probably why I like you." Pause. "One of the reasons anyway."

[thinkering]

"You didn't know it until just now," she points out.

[mxglam]

"No, but it's the sort of meta characteristic that probably affects all sorts of different things about you."

[thinkering]

"True."

[mxglam]

[thinkering]

"You can get on the patrol schedule as Glam now."

[mxglam]

"Oh, yeah! ...and I kinda really want to see what Boots will have to say about there being two of me."

Loen appears: "Your description was really diplomatic by the way. 'I'm sure he has friends,'" he snorts.

[thinkering]

"He probably does. Most people do. He doesn't act like a loner."