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[70ftandcounting]

[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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[70ftandcounting]

[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.

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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.]

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[70ftandcounting]

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.]

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[spellsdeadwrong.livejournal.com]

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.

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[70ftandcounting]

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

Maybe.

[She sniffs.]

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[spellsdeadwrong.livejournal.com]

[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.