turbo heaven 🌼 marcoh

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[outdistanced]

We always got stuff from the cafeteria...

[ he does not. ]

[boxcar]

[ Laurence. ]

You should learn a little bit then. It's good to know for yourself anyway.

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I never had to know. But I guess I could ask Mr. Magnus if you think it's really that important...

[boxcar]

If you want to avoid possibly eating funny food here, you should at least learn how to make a pancake.

[ Nods. ]

[outdistanced]

[ squints. ]

I guess.

[boxcar]

It's not so hard.

Nothing restaurant worthy but I am not that picky.

[outdistanced]

Not being picky is one thing, but what's the point in cooking for yourself if it's not going to taste good?

...Maybe I'll ask Mr. Magnus. Apparently he can cook.

[boxcar]

It saves money to cook for yourself.

[ But he nods. ]

Good idea.

[outdistanced]

...I've never really had to think about money, either...

[boxcar]

The tower provides everything for you?

[outdistanced]

Yeah. Once we get older, we're supposed to work to "earn our keep" or whatever, but that's not until we're twenty-one.

[boxcar]

You mean work?

[ You mean GET A JOB, LAURENCE? ]

[outdistanced]

Yeah? That's what I said. [ sort of. ] We just have to go through school first.

[boxcar]

It sounds like they really give you what you need there.

[ Even if, in a certain sense, it's like a cage... but it's a seemingly well-kept one. ]

It's good. Better than having to scrape together what you need.

[outdistanced]

They do.

[ who would really need anything else? ]

You've said stuff like that before. Is that really the kind of thing you've had to live with?

[boxcar]

My parents... disappeared, when I was ten. I insisted I could raise my sister by myself. I just could not imagine being apart from her.

So, yeah.

[ More or less. ]

[outdistanced]

Disappeared?

[ hello?? that's scary? ]

...Sorry. It must have been hard to do. Being alone like that.

[boxcar]

I don't remember what happened to them.

[ lol ]

I had my sister to worry about.

[outdistanced]

I don't really remember my parents, either.

[ vel explain families in the tower how does it work ]

Yeah, but having to take care of yourself and your sister all alone? That's huge. Especially for a kid.

[boxcar]

I can't deny it was responsibility.

But it just felt like the obvious answer to me.

[outdistanced]

Maybe for family, it is.

[boxcar]

I do think so.

[ If Venere is his only family, then his entire world is family. ]

Someone takes care of you too, do they not?

[outdistanced]

That’s a little different, though. It’s mostly teachers and Tower staff. I never knew my family.

[boxcar]

...

Do you wish you knew them?

[outdistanced]

I don't know. Maybe sometimes? But I can't miss something I never knew.