FOUR // This tree is too small for climbing.

[wavewalker]

There's a tree in the house. Why is there a tree in the house?

Some sort of holiday, I assume, but I'm pretty certain that none of the holidays of this world are like the holidays of my own. I've tried my hardest to figure out what this particular one means, based on the decorations alone, but so far my best guess is that we're to give gifts to some kind of... tree spirit. Why else leave gifts beneath a tree, right?

Mm, I doubt that's the case, though.

Could someone explain what's really going on? Please?

Comments

[weiss-tank.livejournal.com]

You'd probably make a lot of money off of it.

[wavewalker]

Gods know I could do with an honest living.

[weiss-tank.livejournal.com]

You mean you don't have one already?

[wavewalker]

Would you think badly of me if I told you no?

[weiss-tank.livejournal.com]

I ye---wait. No. You don't seem like a bad guy...[And Mayfield is forcing him to look at his own hypocrisy on judging people for not being completely 'lawful good']

[wavewalker]

[ a laugh ] I'm a pirate, Ken.

[weiss-tank.livejournal.com]

[Well he hadn't expected that.]

A pirate? Like treasure maps and booty kinda pirate?

[wavewalker]

You read too many books, I think. But basically, yes.

[weiss-tank.livejournal.com]

But what do you do then if you don't have that stuff? I mean, if you raid merchant ships you're gonna get loot.

[wavewalker]

I do raid merchant ships.

[weiss-tank.livejournal.com]

So you just spend it right away? [He's not dumb, it's just that the only pirates that he remotely comes close to in his canon are information pirates]

[wavewalker]

That depends entirely on what we get, where we are, and if anyone's chasing us afterward.

[weiss-tank.livejournal.com]

That's...almost disappointing. [He chuckles however]

[wavewalker]

Yes, well, the life of a pirate is not all glamor, gold, and women.

[weiss-tank.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I can believe it. That's kinda true about some other glorified professions.