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Re: un: california dreamin

[notrosecolored]

As much as I ever am.

[konstant]

Do you understand how lacking that is as a reassurance?

[notrosecolored]

Vaguely, but it does mean I'm fine. Did you find a contract yet?

[konstant]

Statistically, 'fine' is also a word that most people use when they're not actually. Just so you know.

No, I haven't.

[notrosecolored]

It usually means at least functioning for me. It's not a high bar but it is a bar.

Why?

[konstant]

Not over this.

[notrosecolored]

Over the device or were not talking over this topic?

[konstant]

Over the device.

Although I've not had great luck with the topic, either.

[notrosecolored]

Come over. Then you can at least tell me what bad luck over the topic means.

[konstant]

Alright.
I'll head over soon.

[notrosecolored]

I'll keep an eye on the door

[konstant]

[An hour later:]

Did you move?

[notrosecolored]

Shit. Yeah. I bought a place in the down. [Address]

[konstant]

Alright.

[Much better. He turns up another hour later, coat on but open for once, grateful to be done with his citation.]

"When was this?" he asks once the door is open, once he's slipped inside.

[notrosecolored]

He locks the door behind K, mostly because the Down is what it is. Not a problem for him but he doesn't need random people wandering in and leading to destruction of his own property. "A week or two. About the time we had nightmares in the streets and I signed a new sub."

[konstant]

K prefers living in the Down as more familiar for him, and he locks his door too. It's not a judgment to be aware of facts.

He glances up at the roundabout mention of contracts, brow furrowing faintly.

"Additional? Or did you switch?"

[notrosecolored]

He tilts his head just slightly at the furrowed brow. "Additional. His name's Midnighter. He's pretty self-sufficient, but I did want extra space in case he wants to use it."

[konstant]

"Ah. Yes, I spoke with M a bit." It's weird for K how small Duplicity is after a city with a population in the multimillion level tier.

"You must be doing well then from the city's perspective."

[notrosecolored]

"Doing well meaning following the intended order of things or financially?"

What? He doesn't know.

He does often expect a lot of overlap in people he knows. They mostly have things in common.

[konstant]

"I don't make the call for multiple contracts," K points out.

"So whichever one that is. Probably both."

[notrosecolored]

"Buying a house here is probably the better indicator financially. The second sub's relatively inconsequential if neither of you are assholes." Which is random, but. "And yeah, compliance to this shit and buying property here feels strange, but I really wanted out of their housing before the issue was forced."

[konstant]

K hasn't spent a lot of time investigating the Dominant side of things; he's been preoccupied with... other things.

So: "Does that happen often? They change their minds about the housing?"

[notrosecolored]

"Dominant housing is temporary. After a year they move you out, either way. I'm a little early but I like it being under my control." It's a great way to get money into a society they aren't really part of, Scott supposes, and can't integrate into.

Not that any of them really want to, making the money situation more annoying somehow.

[konstant]

He frowns down in the direction of the floor but not at anything in particular - he's just thinking.

"For a program with a clearly stated goal, there are a lot of arbitrary rules and protocols."

[notrosecolored]

"Their clearly stated goal doesn't make any damn sense to me on any level," he admits, sounding more tired than mad in this case.