the truth is, everyone wishes to be saved.

[finalring]

The execution has come and passed with the death of two more Agents. However time moves on without cease and so must the living. There are no celebrations, only the silence that grows heavier and heavier with every day and the feeling that something is pleased with what it has done.

There are two more days before the new week arrives: what will you do?

Comments

[ghostricked]

Well, I mean you're not exactly wrong. But, no... I don't think I have much of an appetite.

[Even an animal can lose the will to eat if sad enough]

I was curious why you were storing books in there.

[noneforall]

Hmm. Got tired of the rations already? Maybe we should have saved that raccoon the other day.

[Not that he would ever dream of eating a wild animal that turned up in a room full of dead animals in a musty-ass haunted house full of creepy vengeful dead people (the wild animal part is possibly more important than most of the other things??), but Sissel's a cat. He can deal.

Or maybe it's the sad thing. Technically, it's hard to tell on a cat, but Subete has his ways of interpreting. He just might not. Use them as much as he should.

There's a brief laugh where he cracks the freezer open a bit again to check that nothing's unbalanced or just as emphasis.]

Oh, right. This? I read it somewhere on the Net. If you put water-damaged books in the freezer and then thaw them in the right way, they're good as new.

[ghostricked]

[He turns up his nose at the idea of eating raccoon- he WOULD if he had to, but eating other predators and scavengers were always less appetizing. He's much more interested in the books]

Is that so... I wonder why. It's still full of water either way, right? That IS how ice works, yeah?

[noneforall]

[There's a brief laugh, especially if Sissel literally turned up his nose -- Subete is probably not a cat person? But there's still something really funny about talking to a cat and seeing it react to your words in real time when you know it can understand you. Despite all of his considerable and ridiculous experience with life and the Foundation, it's something novel.

As is, uh, explaining basic science to said cat. There's a thoughtful noise as he considers the books still left on the counter.]

Well, yes. Ice is water in a solid state -- but the important part is that ice is a good way of holding items in stasis. That way, the liquid water won't damage the inks and pages, and fungi and mold can't grow on the pages, either. You can just let it dry while frozen, too.

It's kind of crazy how good the Net is for tips and tricks like this, sometimes.