heaven / laurence

[midway]

Comments

weekend 0, saturday, bar

[midway]

[ Looking around the bar with a discerning eye... Hm. ]

This place could benefit from more comfortable seating.

[outdistanced]

[ laurence is looking less with a discerning eye and more like he's waiting for some instructor to jump out and yell at him. is he really allowed in here...? ]

What are you going to do, steal a couple of pillows?

[midway]

... I was going to say it could use a couch and a fire place, but pillows might be a more achievable starting point.

Hey, how old are you, by the way?

[outdistanced]

Just don't take mine, alright?

[ he earned that pillow (he did nothing) ]

...Seventeen.

[midway]

...

... Is that too young to drink where you come from?

[outdistanced]

[ busted ]

...Yes, but I didn't know it was something like this. I was just curious what "The Confessional" was supposed to be.

[midway]

[ Laughs. ]

Hey, I'm not going to report you. That's a normal drinking age for me. Besides, this is the afterlife... Do those laws still apply?

[outdistanced]

[ his shoulders sag in relief. ]

I don't know how those things work. [ ... ] You really let people drink at seventeen?

[midway]

Well, yeah. It seems kind of cruel to kill people at that age and not even be able to drink the horrors away after.

[ Joking but also... That is the truth. ]

[outdistanced]

K-Kill people?!

[midway]

... As soldiers fighting in a war. We don't just have child murderers running around.

[outdistanced]

People my age as soldiers...? You can't be serious.

[ though yea if you're gonna let em kill might as well let em drink too huh. makes sense. ]

[midway]

Well, most kids are farmers but... yeah. If you decide to become a knight or mercenary, usually you're in the field by the time you're fourteen.

[ . . . ]

Anyway! I'm not going to pressure you to drink or anything.

[outdistanced]

They don't go to school...?

[ CONFUSION. ]

It's... fine. There's plenty of drinks at the store.

[midway]

Well, education is a privilege, so not something everyone can afford.

Besides, not everyone needs to go to a school to learn a trade.

[ Because obviously... all schools are trade schools. ]

[outdistanced]

Afford? You have to pay for it, too? [ lmao. ] Your world is so... different.

[midway]

You don't? [ o: ] And everyone goes to school?

Don't they need to work?

[outdistanced]

Everyone. It’s required for us in the Tower.

We don’t work until we’re twenty-one or so - after we get all our education and stuff.

[midway]

Your work must be quite complicated if everyone needs such an extensive education...

[ Because YEAH... ALL EDUCATION IS A TRADE TO HIM ]

[outdistanced]

Extensive...? It's just normal stuff like math and literature and history. I have no idea how that translates into running the Tower.