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[fruitbrandy.livejournal.com]

[Sebastian has been playing croquet, but now he looks almost thoughtful as he sits down on a desk on the Plane and swings his feet back and forth]

I don't like to ask questions without a specific audience, as soliloquies seem so lonely and monologues are simply a bore, but I was wondering if singing fish can live in lakes or if they must have fountains as their habitats? I have never had a singing fish before, so I do not know myself, except that honey helps them when they get sick. They sing very prettily.

[he twines a thread from Aloysius's scarf around his finger]

Aloysius might try to eat them, so it's important they move somewhere safer.

Comments

[polarization]

Did you fall off of those?

[fruitbrandy.livejournal.com]

I couldn't, as they were impossible to climb at all.

[polarization]

Aw... But what good're trees you can't climb?

[fruitbrandy.livejournal.com]

You can sit under them as well, to eat or drink or just talk with someone.

[polarization]

Y'mean like having a picnic?

[fruitbrandy.livejournal.com]

Exactly like that!

[polarization]

But you can do that other places, too.

[fruitbrandy.livejournal.com]

Yes, and I can swim in one of the lakes instead of one of the fountains. But it's better in the fountain.

[polarization]

[ His face scrunches up in confusion. ] You swim in a fountain?

[fruitbrandy.livejournal.com]

I would, if the singing fish hadn't moved in without asking.

[polarization]

Oh. ... But aren't fountains... small?

[fruitbrandy.livejournal.com]

I suppose some are. Mine is... [he thinks about this for a moment] I think, from one end to the other, I could probably lie head-to-toe five or six times? I've never tried to measure it.

[polarization]

[ whoaaaa ] That's huge!

[fruitbrandy.livejournal.com]

I think it's from Italy. So you see, swimming in the fountain really isn't a problem.

[polarization]

I guess not... Couldn't you just share the fountain with the fish, then?

[fruitbrandy.livejournal.com]

I would, but they're quite large and it's difficult to swim without bumping into one. It's quite uncomfortable, though the singing is nice.

[polarization]

Oh. Um, then... [ ... yeah, he's got nothin'. ]

[fruitbrandy.livejournal.com]

I'm sure they'll like the lakes. And then we all can be happy.

[polarization]

[ Nod! ] How're you gonna move 'em, though?

[fruitbrandy.livejournal.com]

[thoughtfully] I suppose I'll ask Wilcox how it's done. One of the staff must know something about fish care.

[polarization]

Wilcox?

[fruitbrandy.livejournal.com]

The head of staff. We've had him all my life. I remember when he used to have hair.

[polarization]

[ Some giggling. ] Think he knows about fish-stuff?

[fruitbrandy.livejournal.com]

I suppose he must. If he doesn't, I can ask Plender when I visit Papa. Papa lives in Venice, so Plender must know a great deal about fish.

[polarization]

Where's Venice?