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[This is something that has been bothering Rapunzel. She doesn't even give a preamble to this post, she just bursts out with it.]

What...what is wrong with all of you?!

[Yes, ALL OF YOU B|]

All...all you want to do is fight and hurt each other!

[She doesn't understand this. She's seen more violence and fighting and injury in the past week than she has in the past few months. NEW PEOPLE STOP HURTING EACH OTHER K]

Why?! I...I don't understand...

[She slams the book shut, and leaves her room and heads towards the Bower. It's the only place where she feels like...things are normal. Feel free to run into her there.]

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[They mean a lot to him too. The last thing he wants to do is break one. That's only why he makes promises he knows he can keep. He really hopes he can keep this one.]

Joo be welcome sweetheart.

[fff]

It could be worse.

[These people could be zombies.]

It's not like I like it either.

Well that's a start, not wanting to be scared.

Wh-who is hurting other people?

[Well, she's not going to give Kevas's name.]

Before...there was a punishment. It...it was really bad, and it was because they were fighting. And...and there was a girl, just earlier that seemed hurt! [Except she doesn't know who hurt her yet.]

The punishments... are horrible. Especially because they can be given unjustly. [Or so Chloe believes.]

A-a girl? H-hurt? Wh-where? Does she need help?

Sometimes, when an emotion is really strong, you have to let it out somehow. Kind of like how when you get really sad, you might cry.

[He has to think about it, remember one of those particularly bad fights.]

Say... you might get angry, be angry at everything around you. Maybe because your dad's not there, hasn't been there for several days--and you know if your mom was still there he would've been home every night that week. And your brother comes in just as angry, who knows why. He shuts the door a little too hard, you snap at him, he snaps back, and suddenly it's an argument.

You're already angry, and this is just adding fuel to the fire. Suddenly, words aren't enough to express how mad you are--it's still building up inside you, and it's making you unable to think straight. Then before you know it your hands are moving, and you're shoving him, and he's fighting back, and a couple minutes later your forearms are burnt and your brother's missing his eyebrows because you singed them both off.

[He starts solemnly, but at the end of his story he's got a bit of a grin on his face, remembering.]

Not that I'd advise trying to singe somebody's eyebrows off, of course, but once we both calmed down, we realized how stupid we were being and laughed it off.

[Did that. Even answer the question?]

[She understands the tears - crying, she gets. She felt horrible when she'd left her tower. Incredibly guilty for betraying her mother and lying to her, Rapunzel had cycled through elation and extreme sadness before steeling herself for her journey with Flynn, though she had been immediately brought here before she could even make it out of the glade.

But when he dissolves into the story about fathers and mothers being upset about it and brothers and fires...

She deflates, just a little and looks down at her teacup and wishes again that she wasn't so naive and clueless as to the outside world.

But she looks back up and resolves to find out more, find out what having a 'Dad' is really all about (she likens it maybe to having Kevas around) and what it's like to have someone you argue with because you care about them. She wants these life experiences he's talking about and she sits up a little in her seat, determined to have them somehow.]

So, when people get really angry...sometimes they just...hit each other? [She hesitates.]

It...doesn't seem very nice.

It isn't very nice. But sometimes people don't know any other way to let that anger out.

Sometimes it just kind of... happens.

[And then there are the people who are just flat-out psychotic, but. Baby steps. First he wants to make it clear that people aren't always -choosing- to hurt each other.]

I think...I understand. [Maybe a little, very tiny bit. But...]

The...punishments here fir fighting are...really bad. [She toys with her cup.]

They're really bad, actually. [She'd missed most of the ones that had been dealt so far. She...had had to leave.]

Then maybe those punishments will make people think twice before they start swinging fists, hmm?

[He's not going to ask about the punishments. He heard about Kevas's, although he thinks a couple of days in the dungeon is light punishment for what it might have been in Desuya.]

For some people, it may not be enough, though.

[She doesn't really answer at first. It doesn't really seem to deter people...]

Maybe.

[She sniffs.]

[Is she going to cry? Asuka really hopes she's not going to cry. Because if she cries, he's going to want to give her a hug, and he doesn't think he's allowed to yet.]

Hey, chin up, all right? There are some good reasons to fight, too.

Sure! I'm near the boat house.

[And just as she says, she's waiting there about calf deep in the lake, prodding at the weedy shore with a toe. It's so different to a beach.]

[Rapunzel shows up a few minutes later, dressed in the appropriate clothing that KAiri had requested. It feels a bit odd, but she supposed that it would be necessary for this swimming thing she'd talked about.

She waved frantically as she approached, smiling broadly.]

Hey!

[Kairi returns the wave as she looks up.]

Are you ready?

[And without waiting for a reply, she turns and begins running through the shallows, ignoring the weeds and whatever else lies on the shore.

Once the water reaches her thighs, she can't run any more. But by then, the weed has dropped away from the surface and Kairi dives, flips over onto her back and grins back at Rapunzel.]

Come on!

[Rapunzel hesitates only briefly before she lightly steps into the water. She'd...done this once, briefly - but it had only been for a few seconds and she hadn't gotten to truly revel in it like she can now.

It felt amazing - and she dug her feet in and giggled before running right after Kairi. She doesn't care about the weeds or...who knows what, she just dives right in, determined to have fun and try something new.]

[Kairi swims out a little further and paddles around, waiting for her. She doesn't want to move out of Rapunzel's depth and she's not really sure how steeply the lake bed falls away.]

So, you've never don't this before?

[She wades a little further, then shakes her head with wide eyes.]

N-no...never!

[But...it's fun and she likes it. A lot. Why hadn't her mother at least let her swim right outside the tower...there was a little stream...she could have at least just put her feet in...]

[That seems more than a little bit strange to Kairi. But then it hits her and she looks up, certain that she's guessed.]

Weren't there any lakes or oceans near where you lived?

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