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[wonderofwonders]

Who: ??? and fellow flowers
Where: LiliS dorms
When: Day 450, evening

[ If you should happen to be in the LiliS dorms this evening you may notice that there's an extra room that wasn't there earlier this afternoon.

...oh and you can't get in or out right now. H m m m.]

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[at_heart]

[ Tiniest pause, and then he pushes open the door to the garden. ]

I'll show you the horses first. They're through here.

[wonderofwonders]

[Without skipping a beat--]

Okay! [Into the garden~] What are their names?

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[at_heart]

[ names ] [ names? ] [ ...the horses have names? Should the horses have names???? ]

[at_heart]

Well.

[ slooooowly ]

I mean, I haven't asked them.

[wonderofwonders]

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They should have names! How else are you going to tell them apart?

[at_heart]

They — look different? There's different colors — brown and black, ones with spots, ones with... whaddya call it, socks?

[ How are you managing to make him feel guilty for not naming the horses??? ]

[wonderofwonders]

You can't just go "black one"! Or "spotty one" when you wanna call them!!

[at_heart]

Well... I don't call them, really? They wait for us in the stables until we wanna take 'em out, and...

[ Rubs the back of his neck. ]

Honestly, I don't take 'em out much. I just... keep the stables clean, feed 'em, talk to 'em...

[wonderofwonders]

Well if you name them, it'll make it easier to talk to them!

[at_heart]

[ That she doesn't think talking to horses is weird lets him miss that he admitted that out loud. Leading her over to the stable door, and then through it to the stables... ]

Maybe? I mean...

[ Actually thinking about this now, though. ]

Names're more of a people thing, aren't they? [ Opening up one stall, he retrieves a brush and just starts brushing down the flank of this particular horse, which looks quite well-cared for already, and swishes its tail comfortably while he works. ] This guy knows I'm talking to him, whether I call him 'Brownie' or... I dunno, Robert.

[wonderofwonders]

[That... makes her think too. She doesn't think people are the only things that have names-- after all, Robo-Nene is a robot but "Nene" is a name, too.]

Well... pets have names-- right? And Robo-Nene is Robo-Nene too so...! Maybe it's really just... a matter of giving names to the companions we feel attached to.

[at_heart]

[ Hrmmm. ]

But do pets want names? Or is that just, you know. Us wanting them to have names for our sake.

[ 'Robo-Nene' gets a headtilt out of him. ]

—I maybe should've mentioned, but 'people' is a pretty broad category.

[wonderofwonders]

I... don't know. I'm not even sure I've ever had a pet.

[Listen, it's okay, she doesn't understand Robo-Nene yet either.]

...This is a lot harder than I thought it would be...

[at_heart]

[ ...Well. ]

It's not like I think they're bothered by names, but... I dunno. Wish they'd come with 'em, I guess. So I at least knew 'well, he's used to it'.

[wonderofwonders]

Aww... yeah, I guess it could be weird getting a name now if they're not used to having one. Or if they had one and we don't know what it is...

[at_heart]

[ oh no, what? baby ]

Don't listen to me, I'm being weird. You should give them names if you wanna.