week four | dates

[marriagebroker]

Get dressed up, go on the town, this is your last week for romance!

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[beatmatching]

[ he's doing his best to understand!!! ]

Do you like being like that?

[embellwish]

"Like" isn't the word I would use.

[ How to explain it... he must know about plants, to some extent. Even if humans are few in his world, the earth still must have flowers and trees, and she saw him read about them in books. She doesn't to cause him undue distress about her condition either, when he can barely understand it... so she tries to explain the matter lightly. ]

It's made my health a big problem, you know. A weed is hard to pull from the ground because roots keep it there, right? It's like that. My physical body can't be separated from it, so I can't do things normal humans would do to survive like eat or move around. That's why I need energy from other people now and then... it's what's keeping me alive, while my body is stuck. You can think of this me [ she gestures down at herself, ] like an illusion.

[ It's more than just her being sleepy, being the implication. When she takes from the contestants here, it's usually because she no longer has the energy to stay alive and keep her illusory self up and walking around. Rest helps, but only so much. ]