second mystic arte • {voice/action for Violet}

[fonic_sight]

[There's the small clearing of a throat, before Jade launches straight into business talk. He's looking for answers to a few of the odd little mysteries of this world...]

Pardon me, I don't wish to be a bother but I've discovered a bit of a discrepancy between this world and the home world I've come from.

I apologize if this does sound a bit silly, but what is the purpose of that three hundred and sixty-sixth day every four years? I'm a tad surprised that this world has such a short year cycle, but I've failed to reach a conclusion on why there is that last day. That and... Months. Is there any reason why they've been broken into days as they have?

[Why aren't your calendars standard and orderly, Pokéworld?]

Time seems to pass the same way. I guess my world just circulates differently to this one.


[Private to Dist]

I'm sure you've noticed the difference with the amount of days in a year in this world. How are you accounting for it?

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[doitrockapella]

That's exactly right, though. It doesn't matter how silly or absurd it is, so long as it's something you'll remember.

Take the sentence, "Some Men Talk With Their Fingers, Silently." That's easy enough to remember, isn't it? But the first letter of each word in that sentence is the same first letter of the days of the week, in order.

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[bellyshirt]

Man, why couldn't you have Winds-day on Sylphday, instead of Thun--Thursday? It'd be so much easier! And that doesn't help me remember the actual words. I liked the 'two' one better.

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[doitrockapella]

All right, then. Tell me the name of a girl who's a friend of yours.

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[bellyshirt]

[At first his mind blanks, because Natalia and the maids don't count, but then he thinks--]

Um. Korra.

[His nose scrunches in a sort of pleased humiliation.]

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[doitrockapella]

"Korra was fine until a gnome sat on her."

And Gnomeday means the same as Sat-on-her-day — Saturday.

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[bellyshirt]

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[bellyshirt]

[He really did just read that, didn't he.]

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[bellyshirt]

[Okay, okay, Carmen gets a laugh, but it'll be worse later when he looks at Korra and can't stop thinking about Gnome sitting on her. Not that...Gnome actually looks like much besides a giant mole in most pictographs and icons, but stiff.]

That's terrible! Kind of great, though.

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[doitrockapella]

[KNOWLEDGE. It works.]

Terrible or not, you'll remember it now, won't you?

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[bellyshirt]

Yeah! [A beat.]


[oh wait--] I'm still mad at you, though.

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[doitrockapella]

Yes, you mentioned that already.

And it's nice to see you're willing to set aside that anger for the sake of learning something.

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[bellyshirt]

Don't think so highly of yourself just because you made an OK kind of joke.

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[doitrockapella]

Oh, believe me, I don't think highly of myself for that.