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[evocation]

[She smiles back at that, letting out a thoughtful little hum.]

I knew you'd be an awesome roommate. And you haven't murdered anyone yet, even.

[lifetothefullest]

[That earns an exhale that's pretty much a laugh.]

Thanks, I think. Not murdering is a really low bar.

[evocation]

But you totally sailed over it. And the whole "listening to your roomie bitch" thing.

[lifetothefullest]

I'm pretty sure that's part of the whole arrangement of being roommates.

[evocation]

Okay.

[She reaches out to give his arm a little poke.]

Your turn. What do you want to bitch about?

[lifetothefullest]

[He isn't expecting the question, although he probably should've been, and so offers lamely--]

I don't really have anything to complain about.

[Which sounds fake even to himself as he says it, oops. But the things he has to bitch about are not things he necessarily wants to get into, and so he's torn between wanting to offer something to make things 'fair' after Kyna confided in him, and not wanting to say anything at all.

And then something super basic and unimportant comes to mind, and he latches onto that.]

Except that it was somehow easier to get coffee in a wasteland run by aliens than it is here.

[evocation]

That's it? Come on. Nothing's annoying you?

[lifetothefullest]

[He shrugs again, crossing his arms. With the specific qualifier of 'annoying' he can answer honestly--]

Not really, I mean... I'm sure something will annoy me once I get more used to being here, but like, all the little annoying sorts of things are so much better than in Hadriel that I'm not even noticing them.

[General living here is a major step up.]

[evocation]

'Cause I'm here.

[She says, teasingly.]

No aliens are definitely a step up.

[lifetothefullest]

No aliens is another very low bar.

[Although he feels like he should clarify--]

No alien overlords, I mean. Alien citizens are fine.

[evocation]

Don't worry, I'm not gonna call you... speciesist.

[Is that a word? It is now.]

[lifetothefullest]

Thanks, but I should still be more precise.

[Both in saying it and thinking it; he dislikes a particular eight members of an emotion-eating species, not all aliens, and it's important not to get into that mindset.

Though, going the other way--]

You know, in Hadriel there were people who actually liked the gods and supported what they were doing.