Ecology and Research Travels Section V
Poingnant!ZaY0isljFw 2025/05/21 (Wed) 00:46
No. 45332
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Lord, I have been at this for a while, now. New thread for THP, and the word count increases on AO3. I sometimes wonder if this is a form of insanity? Am I insane for enjoying my hobby?
[x] Fine, drag me away for all I care. Id love to see you come up with a better idea.
“If you so wish,” Ran replies in kind. She walks behind me, knocking on the door out. “Guardsman, two out.”
I can hear Kaze mutter something or other on his side, breaking open the door for her. Seija casts a curious eye, deciphering what my partner will do now.
I begin to aggress against my partner as she turns back to me, “Now, listen here, you can’t just–“
She ignores my words, catching me by the collar and tugging me off of planted feet. I stumble behind her, doing my best not to entirely fall over. A string of obscenities come from my lips every few steps as I struggle against her grip.
Kaze gets the door behind us, brows curled up in complete disbelief at the show we’re putting on. Ran strides out of the building, towing me along like a labor animal, before tossing me outside on my ass. A puff of dirt spills on impact, some of it sticking to my shirt. I flap the dust away from my notebook and pen, still clasped in my hands before being dragged.
Ran towers above me, looking down on me with the midday sun shading her face. “In what capacity do you expect teaching her to result in positive outcomes?” she pointedly questions.
I pop back to my feet, challenging, “I can’t say I see what the negative outcomes are, either!”
“Then you clearly lack the imagination intrinsic to most humans.”
“Maybe I’d have an easier time predicting things if my lovely partner would share her thoughts more!” I complain to the stubborn fox.
“Your ‘lovely partner’ considers the knowledge that you could impart to be of existential threat in the hands of that particular amanojaku.”
I blink a few times, utterly baffled by the assertion. “Ran, you’re being way too dramatic! ‘Existential threat?’ I was teaching her absolutely basic mechanics not fucking quantum entanglements.”
She nearly sneers at my comeuppance, “Perhaps you need to be
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