witchesreign | Second Heart [Action]

[If there's one thing the Heartless knows, it's computers. The plus side of living inside one all your life is that you're very, very good with them. However, being outside the computers has managed to pique his curiosity to an almost alarming degree. Because, well... This place has a lot for him to learn from. Like books. Strange paper things that you read. And there's an entire room full of them! A library, it's called. Well, he's been in libraries before, and this is quite different from the ones he's used to. Well, unless you count the one from the data version of Hollow Bastion. But he'd never considered it a library as he'd had nothing to compare it to. But now, feeling the paper beneath his fingers and not-skin, there's a strange thrill running up and down his non-existent spine.

He sits beneath one of the desks, hidden amongst the shadows with the book set out in the light while he reads. Some sort of philosophy book, specifically the section about the metaphorical heart. ...It seems he can't deny that part of his nature, after all.]

[[OOC: Despite the icon, he's actually in Soraform.]]

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[Goes to sit at one of those desks and gives a small, curious sound when her feet encounters something beneath it. Looks under and...]

WHAT IN HADES IS THAT?!

[Raises her book at it, as if to strike. HE'D BETTER SPEAK UP OR GRELL WILL SLAP SOME KNOWLEDGE INTO HIM, LITERALLY]

[Ow. That had hurt. ...But the book hitting him will hurt more, so he waves his hands frantically because he does not want more pain today.]

D-Don't! I'm a... A student!

[...Thinking fast only goes so far when your processes are racing. Is this what fear actually feels like?]

PROVE IT.

[That book has not lowered even a centimeter.]

[Sora will mark his book in his mind, before scrambling out and standing. ...Well, he's human-shaped.]

Designation: Sora, ID #37158. Dormitory A117. Amethyst sponsorship.

[Hmm. He looks less shady when standing.]

Very well. [Lowers her book and carries it like any other patron] Perhaps you should use a chair next time?

[Relief. This must be what it feels like.]

I prefer the darkness beneath the desks to the glaring light of sitting at the same desk.

Such a charming boy you are~. [Taps her chin in thought] Today is your lucky day! How about you stay under there, and I'll use the desk?

[Grell...being nice. Take it or leave it.]

[Sora suspects nothing is wrong, if anything is. He's rather naive in some ways. Oops.]

Really? Thank you.

[He'll crawl back under now.]

[Somehow, some way, Grell always finds the naive ones. As well as make mental notes of them.

Pulls out the chair and sits, placing her book on coding for computers on the table and reads over some pages idly.]

Do try not to scuff my shoes, won't you, dear? I'd hate to have to KILL you.

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I'll try not.

[...Yes, he is that used to death threats. Comes with the territory of being a Heartless.]

[Oh, he's a keeper, then~! ♥]

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[That makes him sound like a pet.]

...What's a heart to you?

Hmm? That's quite the question.

[Turns a page before thinking on it.]

Many people will tell you that it's what beats in your chest, but I disagree. It's much more than that. Personally, I believe it's life that makes your heart. The joy and pain...and SUFFERING, and bliss. [SIGHS]

[Peeks under the table with a wry smile]

I could go on, but it would be just a jumble of words. But...why do you ask?

I'm attempting to discern what a heart is and why it is so important. It's something I don't understand at all, but I would like to.

[He's studying the page he'd been reading quite intently right now, so not noticing the smile.]

You can't just read about its importance. [Takes away that book for a moment.] You need happiness, joy, pain, sadness. [Taps the spine of the book] None of that will be in any old book!

My mother's philosophers liked to argue about the heart. On whether it housed the mind, or emotion, and things like that...

[No, he's not weirded out by the kid under the desk, what are you talking about.]

Emotion. At least, that's what it houses in my world, according to the data I've collected.

[Not a kid. Technically a Heartless. But he does resemble a kid. ...Hrm, predicament. Also, there's a pause as he looks up. ...He hadn't even realize he'd been talking to someone.]

...Greetings.

Mm... good afternoon.

[Now he's crouching down to get a better look at the book.] The heart is still strongly associated with emotion, at my house. Emotion, and spirit. I learnt that as a child, and now I can't forget it.

[It's a philosophy book, a section about hearts and emotion and all that good stuff. Possibly why he's so confused.]

...Spirit?

Like livelihood.

People are called lion-hearted, when they show that their spirits are as strong as lions.

Cowards are told that their hearts are weak, when their spirits falter, and so on...

I suppose that is a valid interpretation. I simply have never come across it in my sweeps.

[Though now he's obviously curious.]

[Just chills out nearby reading his own books. If he thinks this is remotely weird, it doesn't show in the least.]

Second Heart [Action]

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...I will admit I laughed.

OH I'M SO GLAD TO HEAR THAT.

HOW COULD I NOT? It was such a priceless reaction!

XD Grell has a knack for them.

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Ffff, sorry. I didn't get a notif for this. :|;

It's cool!

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