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[geminids]

[attached: (1) a link to a livestock auction in jackson, WY next tuesday. or whatever day, idc. (2) a screenshot the available lots — Bracken's circled two American quarter horses from Moon Flower Ranch: a grullo dun mare listed as '10 Diamond Dustfire' and a red dun gelding listed as 'Stardust Ranger.']

hey lil bo peep can bri n i fix up that stable of yours [...] and maybe do some other stuff too

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[arietids]

Pain in the ass.

Would only be if we didn't want the [...] drama of going back to Wyoming.

[osmotheque]

How much trouble do you think it will be? Is the auction entirely theirs? How willing are they to put their own reputation up for public scrutiny in front of people that they are far more likely to see again than you are?

[arietids]

Pretty hard to know how bad it could be. But [...] yeah, they have much more to lose acting up than we do.

[osmotheque]

Then it is easy. All you have to do is act better. If their chin is high, yours is higher. If their words are sweet, yours are sweeter. If they go low, you look so very shocked at their appalling actions that everyone else turns to judge them harshly. That is how the court works.

[arietids]

Conceptually easy, yeah.

Maybe I'll just make you do the talking, if any is needed.

[osmotheque]

I am not to talk to anyone.

Hayatım, you act as though you are absent charm. It does not matter if there is venom behind them, you use the right words. You are here out of genuine desire. You do not wish to cause any trouble. You are, after all, financially prepared. You cannot imagine what the conflict would be if the money is good.

[arietids]

Can I just respond to this with 'ughhhhhh'?

You can probably say a few things.

[...]

Just a little stressful to think of going back.

[osmotheque]

I am trying You both in You need to give me clear parameters. What do you want me to be?

Of course it is. I firmly believe that chewing glass would be preferable to speaking to my mother, but I would do so if it benefited me. This benefits you.

[arietids]

I know. We'll get it sorted. Bracken and I need to talk about how we're going to handle things ourselves, too, so we'll just [...] lay out a plan.

It does. It'll be worth having them back.

[osmotheque]

I will talk sweetly for you if you think that would be most advantageous, but I do think that it would be more satisfying to do it yourself. What good is one man's anger if you do not rise to it?

Then that is your goal.

[arietids]

I want to but What if

[...]

[Keda]

More worried about seeing our siblings than our parents, honestly.

Briar/Keda

[osmotheque]

You care more for their opinions.

What are you concerned about? That they are angry or that they are ambivalent?

Briar/Keda

[arietids]

Don't even really know. Just [...] they were kids when we left. Kids we pretty much raised. Don't think there's any way that won't be [...] difficult if any of them are there.

Briar/Keda

[osmotheque]

I know that pack dynamics are [...] complicated. Often in ways I find fairly incomprehensible. But you do not think those things can be repaired? Or at least be settled enough that they are not a clear and present burden?

What are the consequences of speaking?

Briar/Keda

[arietids]

I don't think anything horrible is going to happen. But it's going to make me feel like shit to see them and

Can't mend anything without causing problems for them, so. Any talking I imagine will have to be pure business or aggression.

Hopefully they're just not even there.

[geminids]

no wonder the pack never dealt with fae.

[osmotheque]

Oh, this is only partially fae politics. Kings and their attache behave in much the same way. Everyone is so very kind and capitulating to one another, but they would love to catch each other out in a mistake. One merely has to win.

[geminids]

yeah we mostly did fights

[osmotheque]

Then you have a distinct advantage. They will not expect you to know how to use your words.

[geminids]

um.

[osmotheque]

You are not giving yourself enough credit. A few well-placed ones are just as effective as whatever flowery nonsense I may favor.

[geminids]

that's why i keep briar around.

[osmotheque]

Very fair. Though a dismissive 'Oh, is that how you intend to behave.' occasionally does wonders.

[geminids]

that's why i keep you around. by keepin briar around.

[osmotheque]

You are too kind.

Also you are very tall. I am certain you would do an excellent job of looking down your nose at people.