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[callmemeg]

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week 0, saturday

[callmemeg]

[ welcome to the rec room, where a recipe for seduction is playing for the third time today! meg is watching, arms crossed over her chest, and glances over when she hears sheila. ]

Not exactly Homerian, is it?

[toesies]

[Why has nobody destroyed the TV yet. Truly criminal.

She blinks and quirks an eyebrow, though, surprised by the small talk.]

Simpson?

[callmemeg]

[ arches an eyebrow. what? ]

Is that a friend of yours?

[toesies]

No? [Squints into the void for a second, and then shrugs.] Nevermind. Let's go back to your thing. Homerian?

[callmemeg]

[ hm. okay. she shrugs and waves a hand vaguely. ]

You know - the Illiad? The Oddyssey? It was all the rage back when Midas was king.

[toesies]

Yeah... It's been a while since then?

[callmemeg]

A few years, sure. But I'm not so old that it's entirely out of style.

[ rude? ]

[toesies]

Ohh... No, no. You misunderstand. It's been like, 2000 years— for me! Give or take a few hundred.

[callmemeg]

[ . . . ]

Some people get all the good genes.

[toesies]

What?

[callmemeg]

[ the faces in these icons ]

Two thousand years and you don't look a day over twenty-five. Can't blame a girl for being a little jealous, can you? So, what's your secret? Got a special beauty routine, or what?

[toesies]

[... There are so many misunderstandings happening here, but the first thing Sheila focuses on is:]

You think I don't look a day over twenty-five?

[She sounds so touched.]

[callmemeg]

[ i’m crying. sheila is so valid. ]

Well, yeah. You look great. Must be one heck of a beauty routine you've got going.

[toesies]

Thank you. You look amazing, yourself!

[She's about to leave it at that but, wait. There was something... Oh.]

—Wait a second. I'm not two thousand years old.

[callmemeg]

[ waves vaguely? ]

You just said it's been two thousand years for you.

[toesies]

Then let me rephrase that. It's been 2000 years— for society!

[callmemeg]

[





hm. ]

I suppose they do say that some cultures move faster than others. But if Homer’s really that old, he’s looking astonishingly spry for his age.

[toesies]

Well... His TV show has been on-air forever. It's true.

[callmemeg]

[ they are just going to keep having these misunderstandings ]

Right? Once the mainstream media gets their claws into something, they run it right into the ground.

week 1, saturday

[callmemeg]

[ well since we are all hanging out in the common room tonight and having whispered conversations, what's one more. when meg spots sheila, she raises her glass. ]

Come for that tequila you like?

[toesies]

Ohh, yeah. [WEARILY.] Mind if I join you?

[callmemeg]

Not at all.

[ oh BIG mood. she's fetching a glass and pouring some liquor immediately. ]

Here's to... whatever that was.

[toesies]

Whatever the opposite of cheers is, here it is.

[CLINK CLINK...]

[callmemeg]

[ CLINK CLINK, and meg takes a sip. ]

...I suppose if anyone innocent had to take the blame, it should be the one making death threats every five minutes. But I still don't like it.

[toesies]

Me, neither. Even if that shitty fucking robot pisses me off, I don't like the idea of there being several killers running around.