fandomhighdorms | Sixth Floor; Late Tuesday Afternoon and On! [ 09/24 ] -- Ino's Birthday Party!

There was hopefully no way that Ino could begrudge Cal having her party a day late, especially since it was a far cry from being a day short. The food he had planned caused him to get some use out of that sixth floor kitchen and space, and he'd been to the task ever since he finished with Oceanography class in hopes to get it finished before everyone started showing up. If they did. He'd ~~handwavily because the mun sucks~~ passed out the invitations through everyone's door, but who only knew with the drama of yesterday.

If no one showed up, he'd have to deal with a pouting Ino. But, on the bright side, he'd have all this delicious Greek food for leftovers basically until eternity, because there was a lot of it.

He'd even decorated a little, subtly, with some occasional touch of purple. And a "HAPPY BIRTHDAY INO!" banner in case anyone couldn't figure out what it was all about. Throw on some music, and there it was. There was nothing to the party part. It was mostly about the food, anyway.

Oh, and Ino. Her, too.

[[ up early for great SP justice! Everyone got invites, so come one, come all, ~~but please wait for~~ some OCD has arrived! ]]

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"I dunno, if I wait it seems like I'm making some big secret out of it," Didi said. "Which is weird for me."

Her hands went into her pockets as she kept talking. "Right, so I'm Death, I'm technically only about a month old as a mortal, and, uh ... that's the highlights."

She clearly did not care if she was believed or not.

...

"...like, controls who lives and dies--that Death? Skeleton dude with scythe?"

"No." That would be silly.

"The Fates control who lives and dies. I just ... show up at the end and help you to the next world." At the start, too, but humans never remembered that. "People here are way fixated on the skeleton-and-scythe idea."

"It's kinda hard to miss the skeleton thing here," she said, almost apologetically. "With, like, Halloween. But if you were, I was going to say, you're definitely rockin' a better body these days."

It was true.

"Do the Fates control everything else too? Or just dying and stuff?"

'The Fates said I'd do it' was an awesome sounding excuse for things, really.

"Well, thanks," Didi grinned. "I don't get it. Sometimes people see what they want to see, but ... if you had a choice, why would you pick a skeleton?"

(Someone had not read much Terry Pratchett.)

She tilted her head at Ino's other question. "That one all depends on how you look at it. You always have choices, though."

"Tradition?" Ino hazarded a guess. "I mean, not mine, but that does seem to be it 'round here."

Ino grinned. "Okay," she said, nodding. "I can deal with that, I think. As long as there's choices."

"There are," Didi reassured her. "So what's your tradition? I'm guessing you're from a different world."

"For Death?" Ino shrugged a bit. "Mostly, he's an ugly old man-monster hybrid. He eats souls of those who make bargains with him."

A quick rueful smile. "Very different world," she added. "Not anywhere near this one, really."

"Yeah," Didi concurred. "I don't eat souls, but it's a bad idea to bargain with something bigger than you are. Well, usually. I've known a couple people who gamed the system and got to live a really long time."

Ino tugged on her hair idly.

"I don't know anyone who tried bargaining with him for that," she admitted, "but people can, if they're willing to pay the price, get him to do other things--like seal things up, and such. It's worth it, to some people, even if they're not 'round to see the result."

"Huh." Didi tilted her head to the side. "Yeah, usually when somebody wants to talk to me for a bargain, it's either they don't want to die or they want somebody they love not to be dead. The second one doesn't usually work out all that well, either. But -- there are always exceptions and, like you said, sometimes it's worth it to someone."

"Generally," she admitted, "I think it'd be worth it when there's something more important to them than their own life, you know? You'd have to be either a strong person or a desperate one to gamble like that."

"Being both usually helps," Didi said.

"That's simplifying things a bit too far for me," she said, wrinkling her nose. "I mean, not everyone is going to cling to life, you know? Or rule out something that crazy, no offense, that easily."

"I said 'usually' and 'helps,' no offense," Didi pointed out. "Those aren't really words for absolutes."

She laughed.

"Guess not, huh?"

"I'll let you get away with it as a birthday present," Didi informed her. "Which -- happy happy, again, and I'll let you get back to your other guests!"

"Thanks," she said, smiling. "I'll see you 'round."

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