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[Everyone will no doubt notice a new addition to the Plane: a giant Christmas tree. Yes, it’s decorated. Lights, ornaments, candy canes, the works. EVEN TINSEL. Tinsel rocks. Lots of tinsel, really.

There are also quite a few presents stacked under the tree. Each is addressed to a person on the Plane with hilariously appropriate - or possibly inappropriate - wrapping paper.

There is a sign near the tree which reads, “Thank you very much for helping us. Please accept a gift, completely and utterly free. It is our payment. We feel you’ve earned it! Did you know some trees stay green in the winter? But they‘re so prickly.”

At the bottom of the sign a small scribbled note reads, “We tried to bake cookies but even we wouldn’t eat those.”]

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[smiles tightly] I'm on something of a strict diet recently. But you're right: perhaps I should consider branching out.

[honestly now]

I did that once, restricted myself to nearly the point of collapse. All in the hope of maintaining Louis' favor when my body chose to disagree with the notion.

It did not end well.

Denying yourself anything tends to end badly. [laughs quietly, ironically] Particularly food. [quietly] It still doesn't make the choice any easier.

But surely you are capable of the choice.

Capable? Of course. It's living with the choice afterward. [considers Reinette as if she might say more, then laughs and waves a hand] But as you've said: it's only fruit. Nothing more than that.

Living with it afterwards?

As we have agreed, it is only fruit. Merely the aftertaste of the apple, or the orange.

It's nothing, my dear. Just some heavy thoughts.

I do so enjoy the taste of both, that's true. I don't see why I can't just have both, at least for a little while. A strict diet is, after all, counter-productive to health.

Then we return again.

Your choice is to not chose at all.

Perhaps it is. But it's still a choice.

[on this she much concede]

If it is your conscious decision? Then yes, it is.

[makes to speak, then sighs and shakes her head] Do you always raise such questions in others?

[she laughs at that]

I do.

How else am I to educate myself, and make my own decisions?

You could do so without forcing me into an awkward position, I suppose.

Again, we are discussing fruit.

How is that awkward?

So we are. I keep forgetting, it would seem.

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