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[dominance]

Do you want to leave your home to discover numerical systems and improve how you study math?

[ you'd think bellamy was making fun of her, but he honestly has no idea what he's even talking about at this point. all he knows is elsa likes this fib guy, and maybe there's something in that. ]

[dendrites]

Well, I would not want to myself, but it was his passion and I'm happy he pursued it.

[dominance]

[ thank god he won't have to go searching for any more books on numerical systems and numerical fractal systems and this guy and how he made it big with his study of stuff bellamy doesn't even understand. but it makes him think back on his conversation with anna. ]

Do you use the fractal math triangle whatever to build your ice castles? Or can you just look at a picture and build it out of ice?

[dendrites]

Oh, no!

Well, part of it is instinct, that is for certain. Without concentration, it's far messier, sharper, not at all elegant. When I have a vision, combining that with my knowledge of geometry and architecture, the result is much more beautiful and sturdy.

[dominance]

So, next birthday, you need a book on architecture.

[ got it. ]

[dendrites]

You're planning my birthday present almost a year in advance!

[dominance]

No, I'm not.

[ incidentally, he is. ]

[dendrites]

But you are!

[ he totally is. ]

When is your birthday?

[dominance]

Sometime this year.

Am not.

[dendrites]

May I have the date or is this classified information?

I thought I was your friend!

[dominance]

[ the message comes a few minutes later than his previous ones have. he'd been mulling over what to say, presuming if he's to tell her it's just a date, she'd either push for it, insisting it isn't, or she'd find herself dejected by him being difficult. bellamy almost thrives on being difficult, but he doesn't particularly want her feeling rejected by him. ]

[ it's with great reluctance he sends something a little more to his text. ]

You are.

August 3.

[dendrites]

[ a sigh of relief follows as she dutifully adds his birthday to her calendar, drawing a star next to his name. ]

Duly noted.

And, you're my friend too.

[dominance]

[ don't write it down, elsa. do. NOT. ]

[ he figures she has. she strikes him as that type of person, and she wouldn't have pushed for it. but what gets him is that she falls him her friend. it's weird, and nice, having those. ]

Do you go around stealing confidential information from all of your friends?

[dendrites]

[ IT'S TOO LATE. ]

I do not! Only the important ones.

[ a n y w a y. ]

What have you been up to today?

[dominance]

[ thank god she didn't leave it at just that. "only the important ones." go frost yourself instead of his feelings, elsa! ]

Not much. Went for a long walk with Nike, who ended up making a friend in a Border Collie? I think that's what he was. Went to the Den for some training. Figured out Chion likes wind chimes. Also some girl named Britney Spears.

[dendrites]

Each snowgie has specific tastes though they do look terrifying to others when they come in droves.

What sort of training?

[dominance]

[ he feels like telling her "snowgie sparring." ]

Sparring. Hand to hand stuff. Helps to keep practising.

[ because he never knows when he's going to opt to go back home. ]

[dendrites]

[ it isn't that elsa forgets what kind of world bellamy comes from, though she feels she knows little about it. she can only assume this is preparation for a return, and it gives her pause. she doesn't respond for a few minutes. ]

Is it difficult? I scarcely know swordsplay and I have only seen Anna throw punches.

[dominance]

[ is it difficult? when he'd been on the ark as a guard, he hadn't really learned much. the ark was an enclosed space where most people didn't know these skills. they'd never have to fight each other physically. some knew how to throw a good punch, others a sharp kick. most of it, he thinks, had been instinct. there hadn't been a place for them to learn hand to hand, not like this. the guard was more into the guns and keeping the order of the ark. being on the ground, he's begun to learn that an enclosed space had it's enemies that are incredibly different to those found on earth. ]

I guess it is. It's easier to use a gun or a knife, but when it's hand to hand, you have to be careful. Throw someone wrong, punch someone the wrong way — you can hurt yourself as well as the other person. It's vulnerable, but it's the way the Grounders fight. Sometimes you're going to be without a weapon to use as a prop. It's good to know how to use yourself.

[dendrites]

And to use someone's physical qualities against them.

You live in a dangerous world with no magic in it.

[ putting her phone down, she opens her palms, then curling her fingers into them. people can be dangerous with or without magic, after all. ]

[dominance]

I'm sure it would be more dangerous if there was magic in it.

[ the mountain men wouldn't have needed to use the reapers to capture the grounders for harvest. if they had magic, bellamy has a feeling they would've had more chance of quicker success at being able to walk outside. he's certain that if they had magic, any sort of it, he never would've been able to live and trawl around the corridors in disguise for as long as he did. ]

[ sometimes he wishes his world had been blessed with such a quick fix to many of the problems his people struggle to think up strategies for. most of the time, though, he's glad that there isn't such a quick fix. seems like magic's often more trouble than it's worth. ]

I'm pretty sure it's the same in any magic-world. You use someone's weakness against them. I didn't have a gun once and I almost died. It's not going to happen again.

[dendrites]

[ she isn't so naive to say that she wishes for him to always be safe and to never find himself in such a position ever again. it is never that easy, even if their agreements do come true when they return to their respective homes. ]

You once suggested I learn how to use a gun, when I mentioned that game to you before.

[dominance]

[ if she was to ask the representatives for that, she'd be in eudio until the day she dies, and long after that, too. ]

I remember the conversation, Elsa. You're confident in your ice magic. It wasn't my place to question that.

[dendrites]

Do you still worry that someone will try to take advantage of me again?

[dominance]

What are you going to do if someone's able to strip you of your one weapon? I don't know if it's likely to happen in Arendelle since ice powers aren't guns and knives, but what if someone has the ability to do that? What if someone has the ability to come here and disrupt everything and do that to you? This city will probably always be safe, but if they can give you the choice to donate a memory, why can't they take powers, too?