If we make it to next year, we can start calling it a tradition. [grin]

Ah. So which is it then? Truth... or dare?

Hardly have the- You were JUST saying how bored you were up here.

... my ideas are fun and engaging. [small pout] But if you don't enjoy them that defeats the purpose. [or is the purpose of truth or dare to make people do things that make them uncomfortable so that they chicken out and you win? but she's not cared to keep score.]

Okay. And you can't answer with "I don't know" this time... if you could do one thing differently, what would it be?

Ah, moss piglets are rather charming lil fellows.

Sure, but isn't complicated self awareness what allows for such potent emotional energy?

Hmm. Truth.

The firs- [ah, squeezes Catduggy tightly as she realizes what he must be referring to, a little shyly because it's a rather sensitive sort of desire given the impossibility of everything they're up against to reach a circumstance that might make such a thing viable or even practical. and yet the phrasing. what are you going to, not even what she might or would that leaves room for doubts. like it's a certainty she can grasp onto, something to believe in. it's not outright reassurance, but she wonders if he knows how much it's appreciated when her own head is always drowning and ifs and whys and buts and hows.]

I don't know... [and then realizing she just answered the way she said he couldn't! huffs lightly in defeat] Because I don't know if it'll be a boy or a girl. And also I think you have to really... see somebody first. To know if a name suits them. [you know, as if newborn babies somehow have fully developed personalities but whatever!]

That seems like a nice tradition. [even if she knows the unfortunate truth of why he doesn't have a name... she's lost her parents far too young, it's terrifying now to risk being separated from a child. as reckless a lifestyle she's lived, seeking safety and stability now is important. somewhere the Captain too can feel secure, unthreatened.]

If you don't mind me using it.

[tentative smile] Another round?

So predictable. [hehe]

Alright. How about you? When there's no longer a ship to be the Captain of, do you want to take another name?

[shrugs] Just curious. If there's power in such things, I didn't know if maybe giving yourself one was like... self empowering.

Oh. I thought it was more of a title. Or a role. Like when I go by Ghost.

Maybe if I stop using the in front of it...

Full naming your friends sounds stiff and awkward...