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[espigeonage]

"The Apostle of the Violet Rose". That sounds like the dashing, masked hero in some shoujo manga. I like it, but can't imagine being called that and not saying anything. Or seeing a man with wings claiming I can do things and not giving it a second thought. And yet! That, and a mysterious feather... It feels like more than a dream. Can't help wondering what it means.

We should have a word for these things. So it's not so vague. Lagniappe? Deja entendu? Something less pretentious? lol!

Getting the feeling that I could've gone into med school. Be useful for once. But I didn't think I was the type... Aaaah, well, too late now. ^_^;

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[secondcomingof]

[ ...dude. That sounded hella gay, just saying. ]

I am swiftly getting the impression that pretentious is an ordinary state of mind for you.

[ Hypocrisy what hypocrisy he knows nothing of it. ]

[espigeonage]

Lol, guilty! I try to rein it back, but I fear unearned faux-depth is my albatross.

[secondcomingof]

I'm assuming this was a... vision you had, then? A sudden acquisition of the moniker?

[espigeonage]

And someone applying it to me. And telling me to give him some of my "divine healing". Very dramatic!

[secondcomingof]

Sounds like it.

Anything else you can remember?

[espigeonage]

The guy saying that was weird. Wings... sometimes... and the most beautiful hair.

And we were in an infirmary, and apparently I could diagnose people for injuries by looking at them. That's why I'm suddenly wistful for med school. I wouldn't know what to do if I saw someone that bloody, but apparently I did there.

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[deathcough]

. . .

Are you high? Who's your dealer, you clearly need to hook me up.

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[argents]

Lagniwhat?

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[espigeonage]

Sorry, but no! Things just happen to be weird enough that the difference between reality and psychotropic-induced fantasy is becoming a little blurry, lol.

If you're seriously looking for nothing harder than marijuana, though, I know a guy.

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[espigeonage]

Lagniappe! Something extra that you weren't looking for.

[argents]

Oh. Thanks. I hadn't really thought of it that way before.

[espigeonage]

I don't actually expect it'll catch on, but... "Vision" doesn't seem like it encompasses all of these.

[argents]

More in the sense that some of it doesn't feel like "extra", exactly...

[argents]

A name to put to it might be nice, though.

[espigeonage]

That's why I'm reaching. I suspect I know a perfect word and just can't think of it. So much for those high-level English courses, lol.

[argents]

Well, it doesn't have to be complicated, does it?

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[consiliarius]

[So the longer Sano drifts around on this mysterious network, the more he's sure it's not just another lolcats community. Then again, the posts he sees aren't exactly what one may call normal, so he's still in the dark.

He'll have to ask about things soon in more detail.]

"These things"?

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[espigeonage]

Right, right. The weird extra - or not extra, lol - things happening to us people-of-the-secret-network. Unless I'm very wrong you've had at least one, too. Something that came with or after this light hollow feeling, and your heartbeat strange and strong.

[espigeonage]

Probably not! lol! I just can't think of anything. Maybe one more based around that heartbeat sensation?

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[threadspell]

Oh, but I'm sure it would be fun to give them a silly, pretentious name! Then if anyone overhears one of us talking about them, they'll think that we're hipsters and disregard everything we say.

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[espigeonage]

Very true! I should find a PDF of Dr Seuss books or something.

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[threadspell]

They could be suesses!

[espigeonage]

And the people who use that word could call ourselves Star-Fronted Sneetches or something of the sort, much to the despair and anger of those who take themselves seriously.

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[professorwolf]

Ah, so this is your number :) Feather-boy.

I don't think anyone will agree on a name like that. Maybe something simpler?

Also, where did the strange title come from? Another vision?

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[espigeonage]

Process of elimination... ah, hello, Mister Smallworld.

True, can't expect everyone to have my sense for the grandiose and absurd. Pulses, maybe? They seem brief.

That's right. Some of it came to me a few days ago, but it was like tip-of-the-tongue sort of thing. I remembered but I couldn't clearly remember, not like now.