I13DT: Everything's Better with Muffins

by **Altamira Vazquez** » Wed May 07, 2014 11:00 pm

"You think it's feeling BAD right now?"

by **Sara Stanton** » Wed May 07, 2014 11:14 pm

"He seemed pretty bummed out about the paperwork, that's for sure."

by **Altamira Vazquez** » Wed May 07, 2014 11:21 pm

"I had nothing to do with that. If it's unhappy being school property, maybe they could sell it to you? I don't know, property law bores me."

by **Sara Stanton** » Wed May 07, 2014 11:50 pm

"That's not the problem! God, I thought being a person was supposed to give you some perspective or something."

by **Altamira Vazquez** » Wed May 07, 2014 11:50 pm

"You think I don't respect it. You think that the Phoenix doesn't respect all life for what it is. That's a pretty big assumption, don't you think?"

by **Sara Stanton** » Wed May 07, 2014 11:54 pm

"I don't give a damn what bollocks you think you can decree from up high, Will's a person and passing him off as a thing is just a temporary solution. You wanna tell something it's not a person why don't you go talk to the Lighthouse computer."

by **Altamira Vazquez** » Wed May 07, 2014 11:56 pm

"Alright, arbiter of all things living. What makes ASHLIE less special than Will?"

by **Sara Stanton** » Thu May 08, 2014 12:20 am

"Will's a human with a severe physical mutation. Ashlie is a bunch of ones and zeroes in a computer."

by **Altamira Vazquez** » Thu May 08, 2014 12:26 am

"And, at the moment, you're a bunch of granite and marble. And normally you're a bunch of carbon and protein."

by **Sara Stanton** » Thu May 08, 2014 12:32 am

"I don't know what Ashlie is or whether it's alive or not, but it's not a person the same way a super-intelligent dolphin wouldn't be a person. It's something else entirely. Will is a Homo sapiens superior and whether he takes the shape of a carpet or a pool of water doesn't change that."

by **Altamira Vazquez** » Thu May 08, 2014 12:37 am

"You're being awfully speciesist there, deciding something is or is not a person based on something as primitive as genetics."

by **Sara Stanton** » Thu May 08, 2014 12:40 am

"I'm not saying there's nothing else that's comparable, but Will's a human being no matter what you or anybody else says."

by **Altamira Vazquez** » Thu May 08, 2014 12:40 am

"Yes, Will's human. It's just not a person. And that seems to upset you..." she pondered.

by **Sara Stanton** » Thu May 08, 2014 3:03 am

"And by what criteria exactly did you come to that genius conclusion?"

by **Altamira Vazquez** » Thu May 08, 2014 3:09 am

"The fact that you're yelling at a cosmic entity was my first clue."

by **Sara Stanton** » Thu May 08, 2014 11:15 am

"That's not what I'm talking about!"

by **Altamira Vazquez** » Thu May 08, 2014 12:08 pm

"Alright, you're going to count to 10, and maybe that will help you calm down a tad," Mira said, reaching out with her telepathic cosmic juju.

by **Sara Stanton** » Thu May 08, 2014 12:22 pm

"Hey, what... one. Two. Three. Four. Five." Sara is not looking like this is calming her down much. "Six. Seven. Eight. Nine. Ten."

"What is wrong with you?"

by **Altamira Vazquez** » Thu May 08, 2014 12:24 pm

"I just thought maybe we could talk about this like adults, rather than petulant, screaming irrational balls of...irrationality..."

by **Sara Stanton** » Thu May 08, 2014 12:33 pm

"You're the one who keeps dodging the topic."

by **Altamira Vazquez** » Thu May 08, 2014 12:38 pm

"The topic of how I know it's not a person? Well, how do you know that, say, DNA is DNA? And not something else?"

by **Sara Stanton** » Thu May 08, 2014 12:45 pm

"Because we have tests for that. And the point is that he was a person before his mutation set in and that didn't take something away from him no matter how much outside-of-time perspective you throw at this."

by **Altamira Vazquez** » Thu May 08, 2014 12:47 pm

"Look. This is a bit above your paygrade, so I'm going to try to explain this. In the beginning, He created all life, but it's not like...not like there's only one KIND.

Some, like the Morrigan, received a spark of divinity. Others, like yourself, received a more common spark of creation."

by **Sara Stanton** » Thu May 08, 2014 12:58 pm

"Uh-huh."

by **Altamira Vazquez** » Thu May 08, 2014 1:11 pm

"So, you can see there's different gradients in the quality of the spark given to people, is it that hard to believe that Will is yet another rung down? It's not nearly as big as the difference between me and you, mind you, but still."

by **Sara Stanton** » Thu May 08, 2014 1:18 pm

"Go fuck yourself and that high horse of yours. You think you can just rank people like that?"

by **Altamira Vazquez** » Thu May 08, 2014 1:33 pm

"You're making a mountain out of a molehill. I thought this place was all about celebrating diversity and differences?"

by **Sara Stanton** » Thu May 08, 2014 2:15 pm

"It's also about accepting all that diversity as equals. No wonder you ran off with how superior you think you are."

by **Altamira Vazquez** » Thu May 08, 2014 2:22 pm

"You think because Will is not a person I'm saying it doesn't deserve respect? Personhood is not sufficient for that, or have you forgotten that your friend Quinton Watson is a person?

And of course I'm superior. I'm the Phoenix."

by **Sara Stanton** » Thu May 08, 2014 2:31 pm

"Quinton Watson forfeited any respect he might deserve by his own actions. He just used Will for his own gain. How is you using him as a carpet any different?"

by **Altamira Vazquez** » Thu May 08, 2014 2:36 pm

"A flying carpet," Mira corrected.

by **Sara Stanton** » Thu May 08, 2014 2:46 pm

"That's not the point! Did you even ask him? Because he sure didn't remember being a carpet!"

by **Altamira Vazquez** » Thu May 08, 2014 2:51 pm

Mira waved her hand. "Oh, it's all in there. It's a matter of trust."

by **Sara Stanton** » Thu May 08, 2014 2:55 pm

"Oh great, so you used him and violated the privacy of his mind. So far you're two for two on people who have messed with Will. You're keeping excellent company there. You're no better than us lowly humans."

by **Altamira Vazquez** » Thu May 08, 2014 2:58 pm

"You're jumping to conclusions, unless you think telepathy is inherently evil."

by **Sara Stanton** » Thu May 08, 2014 3:04 pm

"Did you. Ask Will. I don't care if you used words or telepathy as long as you didn't just assume based on his thoughts."

by **Altamira Vazquez** » Thu May 08, 2014 3:07 pm

"Did you ask your shirt before you put it on today?

And, to cut off your objection, no I'm not comparing Will to your shirt. Will is clearly better. This is not a value judgment I'm making here, just a regular judgment."

by **Sara Stanton** » Thu May 08, 2014 3:10 pm

"Well judge this." she says, flipping Mira off as she shifts back to normal and turns around to head back inside.

by **Altamira Vazquez** » Thu May 08, 2014 3:16 pm

When Sara walked through the front door of the manor, she'd find herself, instead, walking into Will's office, where Mira sat behind the desk

"No, no, we're not done here."

by **Sara Stanton** » Thu May 08, 2014 3:17 pm

Sara promptly turns around and walks back out the door.

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