Apparitions 2.5

[22:18]	<GMOwen>	It is the later hours of the night, Miss Magda's birthday still at hand, even if the celebration is not. The house is quiet as the "older" women are off tending to their own affairs, whatever those affairs might be given the time of day...
[22:19]	<GMOwen>	The "younger" girls, however, remain in the living room, discussing this and that, as old friends often do...
[22:21]	* Phrine	could care less that with the way she cut the cake, she probably ate more than her share. There's still some left, though. Nom nom nom...
[22:24]	<Phrine>	"Mmm, hey, thanks for payin', by the way. I forgot if I have money right now or not..."
[22:24]	<Phrine>	"S'one-a those things I should prolly care 'bout one day... ehh~"
[22:25]	<Kalinka>	Is no problem for a dear friend on this, the day of her birthday.
[22:25]	* Kalinka	smiles, just happy to be here and have found her.
[22:26]	<Phrine>	"Aren't, but... Birthday, girls, GET, gifts, right...?"
[22:26]	<Phrine>	"They don't... GIVE, them...?"
[22:29]	* Phrine	scratches her pink hair with a pink frosting-ed fork. It's as if there's no frosting on her hair at all!
[22:30]	<Kalinka>	Am I not a sufficient gift?
[22:30]	* Kalinka	looks mock-hurt.
[22:31]	<Kalinka>	Poor Magda, she is but chopped kidney.
[22:31]	* Phrine	covers her mouth.
[22:31]	<Phrine>	"No, I don't want you to be that!"
[22:31]	* Phrine	hugs her friend and keeps her kidneys safe.
[22:32]	* Kalinka	giggles and hugs her back.
[22:32]	<Kalinka>	Is only a teasing.
[22:32]	<Phrine>	"Yaaay~"
[22:32]	* Phrine	goes back to her seat. Where'd that fork go...? Oh well.
[22:33]	<Phrine>	"And anyways, aren't I the gift to you, or... something?"
[22:36]	* Phrine	shrugs.
[22:36]	<Phrine>	"I guess as long as we're both happy, then..."
[22:36]	* Kalinka	has been having a bit of wine. Kind of a /lot/ of "bit of wine." It doesn't affect her speech centers, but her thought processes are a bit spotty, which is why she was thinkng of things in terms of Phrine's birthday, instead of her own, which is today.
[22:37]	<Kalinka>	[=-= and it's definitely not because I forgot about that, no. No way at all is it that thing.]
[22:38]	<Phrine>	[One day the might bracket text will break the bracketh wall and reign terror on the little girls who they so constantly defile.]
[22:38]	<Phrine>	[ [=-= *mighty] ]
[22:38]	<Kalinka>	Of course, of course~
[22:38]	* Phrine	puts a hand to her cheek and leans, thinking deep thoughts. It doesn't hurt her brain like a silly people might imagine.
[22:41]	* Kalinka	is happily buzzed~
[22:41]	<Phrine>	"...Mmmmnnmnmnm...."
[22:41]	* Kalinka	Like that!
[22:43]	* Phrine	can't think very well. Perhaps this smart lady is a better thinker?
[22:43]	<Phrine>	"H-Hey... best friend...?"
[22:46]	<Phrine>	"You're... smart, yeah?"
[22:51]	<Phrine>	"Do you... know the right answer, here?"
[22:53]	<Kalinka>	...Answer to what?
[22:54]	<Kalinka>	Am not psyhic.
[22:54]	* Phrine	swirls her other hand around like it's supposed to mean something.
[22:54]	* Kalinka	's tongue tangles around that word.
[22:54]	<Kalinka>	Psy-chic.
[22:55]	<Phrine>	"To... awww, brother, now I forgot how to say it..."
[22:56]	<Phrine>	"To... money. Yeah, yeah, that."
[22:56]	* Phrine	sighs.
[22:57]	<Kalinka>	Yes. I money. No, I do not money.
[22:57]	* Kalinka	nods, and then slowly re-examines what she just said.
[22:57]	<Phrine>	"I feel like... I should, get some. For... like, for real. Instead of, for fake, like we kinda do now."
[22:58]	<Phrine>	"Like a sort of... job, type thing..."
[22:58]	<Kalinka>	Erm, hold for a moment. I--
[22:58]	* Kalinka	stops, and throws out what she was going to say.
[22:58]	<Kalinka>	--What?
[22:59]	* Kalinka	's nose wrinkles.
[22:59]	* Phrine	stares at her friend. Did she say something wrong?
[22:59]	<Kalinka>	Why? You do not need for working.
[23:01]	<Phrine>	"B-But... I, like cake. And, shooting guns. Ya' need money for thats."
[23:01]	<Phrine>	"I don't wanna keep asking Judy and Letty for it all the time... Not really."
[23:03]	* Phrine	sighs against and cranes her head back, looking at the ceiling.
[23:03]	<Phrine>	"The real world is harder than I thought it was gonna be..."
[23:04]	<Kalinka>	I do not work.
[23:04]	<Kalinka>	I work for my life. Buying, I do not do.
[23:04]	* Kalinka	frowns.
[23:04]	<Kalinka>	...Is not helpful for you, however.
[23:05]	<Kalinka>	Hmm.
[23:05]	<Phrine>	"...but, the... cake. You, bought the cake, yeah?"
[23:05]	* Kalinka	freezes.
[23:05]	<Kalinka>	Um.
[23:05]	<Kalinka>	Was gift.
[23:05]	<Kalinka>	Is birthday, after all, no?
[23:06]	* Kalinka	is the BRILLIANT-EST
[23:07]	<Phrine>	"I guess, I guess... must be nice, hehe~"
[23:07]	* Kalinka	nods and smiles. That was close.
[23:07]	<Phrine>	"Buuuut, like... It's not my birthday every day, Maggy."
[23:08]	<Kalinka>	...But money, I do not require it. Often. The things you need, I can obtain these.
[23:09]	* Kalinka	would kill anyone else who called her that. Phrine is very lucky that she is who she is. Which is her.
[23:09]	* Phrine	wrinkles her nose at Maggy's statement, and even squints.
[23:10]	<Phrine>	"...N-No."
[23:10]	* Kalinka	is given pause, and seems genuinely confused, after a moment.
[23:10]	<Kalinka>	Why not?
[23:10]	* Phrine	shakes her head and repeats it a little more forcefully.
[23:11]	<Phrine>	"No."
[23:11]	<Phrine>	"I... no."
[23:12]	* Phrine	curls her legs and feet up into her chair and looks away. She looks hesitant and unsure, but is quite the opposite.
[23:12]	<Kalinka>	Yes. Many of these you have said. Am asking why.
[23:12]	<Phrine>	"I'm... a woman."
[23:12]	<Phrine>	"Because I'm a... woman."
[23:12]	<Phrine>	"Not a, not a... girl."
[23:13]	* Kalinka	is blitzed and having a hard time thinking straight, so this seems extra-bizarre. Even for Phrine, so you can imagine how bad it must be.
[23:14]	<Phrine>	"I should have stopped being a girl a long time ago. But I... forgot to."
[23:14]	* Kalinka	as a result, it takes Magda a good minute or so to line up her thoughts well enough to muster a solid response.
[23:15]	<Phrine>	"...'cause, it's was easy, you know~?"
[23:15]	<Kalinka>	...I am... this thing you are saying, it has made me lost.
[23:17]	* Kalinka	takes a wild grab for something to work with.
[23:18]	<Kalinka>	Ease is ... it is for it comes with being more than human. Is benefit.
[23:18]	* Phrine	looks back at Magda. For once... Phrine is being too complicated...?
[23:19]	* Phrine	considers the comment...
[23:19]	* Kalinka	is drunk on top of that, so yeah, it's kind of a mess.
[23:19]	<Phrine>	"But... it... No. No, I... That's, wrong."
[23:20]	<Phrine>	"I... I need to... DO, something. Something... that matters... yeah."
[23:21]	<Phrine>	"Been here in Chicagoland for a bunch of a lot of years already... done nothin'..."
[23:21]	* Phrine	pouts.
[23:22]	<Phrine>	"Drank homeless peoples and ate cake and bought Colt Single Action Armies."
[23:24]	<Phrine>	"...Boring..."
[23:24]	* Phrine	is almost afraid... She recalls her days in the orphanage when every day was the same; when every day didn't matter.
[23:27]	* Kalinka	considers it in that light. "Boredom" makes a little more sense, at least.
[23:28]	* Phrine	rubs her temple. She hasn't had a drink yet today; it's getting a little hard to focus.
[23:32]	<Phrine>	"Gotta... Gotta DO, something... Be a woman. Women, do things, right...?"
[23:32]	<Kalinka>	I see. You want hobby, then?
[23:33]	* Phrine	lacklusterly spins a Colt around her finger.
[23:33]	<Phrine>	"Nope; got one~"
[23:34]	<Kalinka>	Keeps you interested, not bored? Is a hobby.
[23:35]	<Kalinka>	Can also make you money, but that is small bonus.
[23:35]	* Phrine	starts pchooing things in her mind as she mimes with the gun. Pchoo~ Pchoo~
[23:36]	<Phrine>	"But, that's not... It's doing something, not DOOING something, you know, Maggy?"
[23:36]	<Phrine>	"Like, it's like, like that one time! With the stuff and the girls and things!"
[23:37]	<Phrine>	"I didn't do anything! I just... was, kinda, there. Spinnin' my gun around n' stuff..."
[23:37]	<Kalinka>	Is very doing something.
[23:38]	<Kalinka>	If it keeps you interested, it is always something.
[23:38]	<Kalinka>	...PURPOSE, Phrine.
[23:38]	* Phrine	doesn't know how to explain it...
[23:38]	<Kalinka>	That is the gift.
[23:39]	<Kalinka>	Its gift. Not mine. Or yours.
[23:39]	* Kalinka	suddenly got screwed up at the end.
[23:39]	<Kalinka>	Um.
[23:39]	<Phrine>	"I, I know, but it's... There's MORE, I, I know there is..."
[23:39]	* Kalinka	's dramatic wind dies before it really starts filling her sails. Damn.
[23:40]	<Kalinka>	...Maybe I am not person to talk to about this.
[23:40]	* Phrine	can't explain it. The remaining vestiges of her humanity, perhaps, never fully crushed. A voice in her head, always making her think strange things.
[23:41]	* Kalinka	seems frustrated at her own inability to communicate.
[23:41]	<Phrine>	"No, no, you're the best person, Maggy. Best friend~"
[23:41]	<Phrine>	"Judy, she's..."
[23:41]	* Phrine	looks around the room and pulls in close, dropping her voice.
[23:42]	<Phrine>	"She's kinda old~"
[23:42]	<Phrine>	"Letty too~"
[23:42]	<Kalinka>	...Yes. Your sister-womens, they have more advice that is you. For you.
[23:43]	<Kalinka>	My advices, they are... not as for you, I think.
[23:43]	<Kalinka>	If you want money...
[23:44]	* Kalinka	strains to keep herself from adding anything unkind about that
[23:44]	<Kalinka>	...and want interesting things to do, go. Do them.
[23:44]	<Phrine>	"...Really...?"
[23:49]	<Kalinka>	Yes.
[23:49]	* Kalinka	thinks for a moment.
[23:50]	<Kalinka>	Do you have ...job... in head?
[23:50]	<Kalinka>	...Mind?
[23:51]	* Phrine	stands back up and bows to her friend awkwardly and kind of stiffly. After hearing the question, she shrugs.
[23:51]	<Phrine>	"Not really."
[23:51]	<Phrine>	"But thanks."
[23:51]	* Phrine	leans over and gives Kalina a quick peck on the cheek for no particular reason.
[23:51]	<Phrine>	"Best friend~"
[23:52]	* Kalinka	blinks, but smiles.
[23:52]	<Kalinka>	Truest comrade.
[23:53]	<Phrine>	"I'ma go grab life and do it now, kay~?"
[23:53]	* Phrine	thumbs at the door.
[23:54]	* Kalinka	nods.
[23:55]	<Kalinka>	...Have good living.
[23:55]	* Kalinka	adds, after a second:
[23:56]	<Kalinka>	Avoid shady people or slick bastards!
[23:56]	<Kalinka>	They are ruin.
[23:56]	* Phrine	nods back, grabs her coat, and traipses out the door to go life live and not be useless.
[23:57]	<Phrine>	"I can always kill em~!"
[23:57]	<Kalinka>	Keep that to alleyways!
[00:00]	* Kalinka	would consider going with her, but she has skipped that kind of important step in her head --or forgotten it-- due to aforementioned holes in logic.
[00:00]	* Kalinka	is instead worrying about what she's going to tell the others when they come asking where Phrine is.
[00:02]	* Kalinka	How she can ponder the fallout and forget the original problem... Well, that's why she normally doesn't drink within a week before OR after a job.
[00:02]	<GMOwen>	Such is the life of the dead, or mostly-dead.