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[It's raining outside today, but for once Nonon doesn't seem to mind; she's still in the utter sinkhole that is Violet City, but for the time being, her morale is good. Her money ran out quite some time ago, and she'd been okay with sleeping outside (it was going to take more than that to get her down properly) until that freak snowstorm last week felt the need to hit; seeing as she'd never worked a day in her life (not a proper job, not something that wasn't school and training) the idea of doing that was something almost completely foreign to her, but eventually she'd caved and applied somewhere and gotten hired.

And in the time since, she's discovered the surprisingly unsarcastic utter joy in the equation that is "make muffins = get money."

Sure, she's probably never going to get the flour out of her hair again and half the time she somehow ends up with glaze on her face, but she's found a bakery and they were hiring and she's stronger than she looks, and there's something really satisfying about being able to do things with her hands and see the results, and generally she's doing really well. Singing a bit while she does it, even, and making use of her Ambipom's entirely too many hands to hold trays for her while she works.

Life is actually surprisingly good today.]

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This place is actually pretty mundane, for somewhere that has a bunch of magical fire-spitting animals at their disposal. It took a lot of considering it, but I don't think I can really complain about that, though. It's sort of nice to know that even in a place that has something like that, people aren't using them to burn each other's faces off.

(Usually, anyway, I've heard there are a few whackjobs that do that.)

How many of you are from somewhere like this? Where there's not much going on, I mean, and you can just kind of exist.

And if you're from somewhere that's not like this and there's stuff going on all the time, what's it like for you to be living here now? Is it boring for you, or is it sort of a relief?

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I used to have plenty of those, too, actually. That's a lot of what kept me so busy - it's sort of a long story.

I guess in my case I'm actually finding it pretty nice to be bored sometimes. It's not something I had time to do back home, so I never really thought of boredom as a luxury until I showed up here.

I'm familiar with long stories, there's no need to explain. The luxury of boredom's begun to pale for me after more than one month here. But it is pleasant, even as the delight in it fades. I don't think I'm suited to idleness.

Some people aren't. I know a few people back home who would be going stir-crazy by now.

I think it's just taken me this long because this place seemed too peaceful from the start. If someplace is really this boringly straightforward, that usually means there's something wrong with it. I still don't know if we can trust it, but if it's hiding something, it's going to blindside literally everybody at this rate.

Edited (words) 2014-07-07 21:35 (UTC)

I have a friend who's been here three years. He says it's all as it seems. I haven't had any reason to doubt that, yet. But I had the same thoughts, at first. It seems more like a world from a storybook than one that should exist. It's so nice.

Go on, you can say it. It's childish as hell.

There's a childlike cast to the place, I'll agree. My Pokemon look like stuffed animals.

At least one of mine does, too. If stuffed animals didn't stop screaming and breathed through their ears, anyway.

....none of mine do that.

Well, you're lucky.