[IC] Misc. Open Post

[curriculum_fictae]

For various overflow, misc. threads that don't fit on the comms they're for, etc.

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[hijoperdido]

Um. A few, yeah. Mostly stuff I grabbed when no one was looking.

[He gestures to the small stack on a barrel in front of the arm chair.]

[curriculum_fictae]

May I look through them?

[hijoperdido]

Uh...

Sure?

[There aren't many, mostly just some old story books Abuela had carried with her.]

[curriculum_fictae]

[ Ah, yeah. He sees that immediately just sorting through them. ]

Not much for entertainment back here, I see.

[hijoperdido]

Kinda make my own entertainment. Just, y'know.

[curriculum_fictae]

… You only have yourself and the rats to help?

[hijoperdido]

Yeah. I mean, who else am I gonna ask?

[curriculum_fictae]

I suppose there’s no one else. Yeah.

[hijoperdido]

But you know, it's great, I mean I get to listen to them, hear all the gossip. I-I'm not sure Isabel really wants to marry that guy Mariano.

[curriculum_fictae]

Who’s Isabel? And … who’s Mariano?

[hijoperdido]

Isabel is the oldest of my other sister - sister who made all the food.

Mariano's just - He's a good guy, he's just from the village.

[curriculum_fictae]

So, good people, but a bad matchup?

[hijoperdido]

I think so, yeah.

[Munch munch.]

I think Dolores likes him.

[curriculum_fictae]

… Oh. Oh dear. That cannot be comfortable for any of them.

[hijoperdido]

No, but. Isabel's pretty determined to do what's best for the family, and Dolores isn't going to get in the way of that because she also wants the family and village happy.

[curriculum_fictae]

…

Um. I. Don’t take this the wrong way, but. Is anyone in your family happy?

[hijoperdido]

[He gestures vaguely with one hand.]

They're happy when everyone's happy.

[curriculum_fictae]

Okay, then who is happy in this family?

[hijoperdido]

I-

I just told you, they all are. Just, y'know. Sometimes it's not so obvious and everyone has bad days sometimes.

[curriculum_fictae]

The fact that you can’t even name anyone specifically is telling, Bruno.

[hijoperdido]

Look, what- What exactly do you want from me here? You show up out of nowhere, start asking about my family, then start criticizing my family. What do you want.

[curriculum_fictae]

[ Martin pinks at that and withdraws. ]

I - sorry. I just want to help. That’s all.

[hijoperdido]

Every family has something wrong, okay? No family is perfect, and- And everyone has something they're working on. Mamá is doing her best taking care of everyone, and we have to help her. And sometimes that means Pepa has to keep her emotions under control, and Isabela may have to marry some guy she's not interested in, and I have to stay back here, out of sight and not hurting anyone.

It just - It's like that sometimes.

[curriculum_fictae]

[ Martin makes another face, but he doesn’t comment on any of those things directly, at least. ]

I suppose I don’t have that sort of family, so I can’t comment.

[hijoperdido]

[Bruno, meanwhile, huffs through his nose and sits back a bit. Staring down at his self-made plate with his name, then at the light coming through the crack in the wall.]

....Sorry. I just- They're all I've got.