[HORSE]

[bloodyashes]

[There is no text in this message. All there are are some drawings of rather strange creatures. After some time, a drawing of a completely different creature is scribbled into one corner.

However, anyone in or passing near Dorm 25 will be able to hear a soft argument between Asch and Murtagh (oneformisery) along the lines of "That's not a horse, it's some kind of monster." "Of course it's a horse! Do you think I'm making this up?"]

Comments

[byhiswill]

A resort town? For what purpose?

[bloodyashes]

For relaxation? What else is a resort used for?

[byhiswill]

Oh. Some sort of medical retreat, I see. They must make good coin at that, if they can survive on fishing alone during the year.

[bloodyashes]

No, it's for pleasure. The main attractions are a casino and a spa.

[They do make good coin though. It's very exclusive. Unless you help the Emperor of Malkuth with petsitting.]

[byhiswill]

Gambling?

I am not sure what purpose it would serve if not medicinal. Or a clever ploy to part the unlucky and fooling from their coin.

[bloodyashes]

[He is rubbing at his temples at this point. And probably grumbling under his breath to Murtagh and the dragons, honestly.]

Do you have any concept of a vacation?

[Okay that may have been rude and a little blunt.]

[byhiswill]

I am a soldier.

[bloodyashes]

As am I. Question stands.

[Just because he hasn't even taken a vacation...]

[byhiswill]

Some of the upper nobility have estates outside of the city to which they retreat when the city life becomes too stagnate for them. But such leaves are not afforded to normal soldiers, even one with as much rank as I myself have.

[bloodyashes]

Keterburg's resort is largely exclusive to Malkuth's nobility and higher military ranks, but soldiers in any country still have the right to vacation, regardless of rank. Most use it to return and visit their families.

[He's not asking what the hell kind of country you're from that doesn't give soldiers vacations, but he's thinking it. To think that the Oracle Knights would ever come out as the less fucked up military, in any comparison.]

[byhiswill]

I have no family. [Had, have? She found Cid again but he had been considered dead for so many years.] Nor do most of the military.

[bloodyashes]

Family isn't just defined by blood.

[If he didn't say that, he wouldn't be able to look Natalia in the eye.]

And that isn't the point anyway. You deserve the option of a vacation whether you have family or not.

[byhiswill]

No. I know that. I was adopted into the household I was raised in. But the Legatus who raised me wished me at his side, and there I remained.

It seems pointless to offer a leave without some medical need.

[bloodyashes]

[Unfortunately, Auldrant's awareness of mental health isn't advanced enough that vacation is considered a medical need, and even if it was, it was an idea that Asch was probably not exposed to. So he's just being rubbed the wrong way by the idea without any way to articulate why, except...]

And the same could be said about the man who raised me, but that doesn't mean that at his side was the best place for me.

[toothaches]

_{[Maurice has watched this long enough. He butts in with some slightly rounded letters that looked more at home in a 4th grade girl's notebook.]}

no its where you go to get facials and massages!

[byhiswill]

....Facials? Massages do serve a medicinal purpose for muscle strains.

[toothaches]

They put this goop on your face and it's really good for your skin!

[byhiswill]

[There are several things started]

but. th how. WHY?

[And then several moments of silence before she tries again]

That makes little sense.

[toothaches]

it feels good and makes you pretty

there are whole places dedicated to just making you feel good they will do your hair and your nails and everything

[byhiswill]

Do what with your hair?

[toothaches]

wash it or style it or dye it or cut it

theyre pretty great but theyre really expensive to go to

[byhiswill]

[She is quiet for a very long time]

Other people wash your hair? And you trust them to cut it?

[toothaches]

well yeah!

people will spend years at special schools learning how to cut hair and make it look good

_{[He wishes he had the guts to do that but he became a mechanic instead whups.]}

[byhiswill]

It sounds quite foolish. What if they were to decide to cut your throat instead?

[toothaches]

then they would go to jail?

_{[what the FUCK]}