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This is perhaps the strangest hallucination I have ever experienced. Tactile is not generally a component nor do I tend to believe I've lived two different childhoods. Can't be H.O.U.N.D. and I haven't used. Lucid dreaming, perhaps? Most likely though in that case I have rather lost control. Very odd indeed, but then I do seem to harbor the belief that this book will populate itself with responses and that I'm at a school for learning magic. It hardly does to only call one thing odd when so much is absolutely ridiculous. But I believe it. That shouldn't be possible.

I'll have to consider carefully how to move forward from here. I'm not sure how but it could be Moriarty. Makes as much sense as anything.

[ooc - replies with not_a_hero. 4th wall breaking is A-Okay]

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[not_a_hero]

[Trying not to smirk. Failing.]

Normally I'd say you're a decent height for most women but, well, I'm six inches taller than you. Don't really think they make heels for men. Not outside drag circuits, anyway.

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[3houseswatson]

[John doesn't even try not to scowl.]

Yeah, saying I'm a decent height for a woman might mean something if I were, y'know, a woman. And just keep on rubbing in how tall and cool you've grown to look, thanks. If all that was your attempt at consolation, you're unbelievably crap at it.

... no, wait, this is you we're talking about. You're all-too-believably crap at it.

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[not_a_hero]

That wasn't exactly the comparison I was going for but I suppose I'll thank you for the mental image. I should have specified that you're the right height for women were you interested in dating one. Less neck bending.

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[3houseswatson]

And again, not all that helpful. I don't think the odds of me dating a girl anytime soon are too high.

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[not_a_hero]

Well, your odds of dating a man are much improved. I'm sure you're dying to write home to your mother with the good news.

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[3houseswatson]

I don't know if the fact that they've already gone through something similar with Harry will make that situation better or worse.

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[not_a_hero]

Don't think I can win them over?

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[3houseswatson]

You'd actually be interested in trying to win them over?

Keep in mind my family doesn't have any sentient paintings of obnoxious dead relatives for you to scandalize.

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[not_a_hero]

I'm always interested in impressing people. I'm a show off. It's one of the few things you can expect me to do without asking.

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[3houseswatson]

See, while all that's true, there's still a little flaw. A lot of your showing off involves ratting off deductions about peoples' deepest darkest secrets or private lives, and not everybody finds that impressive.

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[not_a_hero]

Hardly my fault if they can't appreciate my intelligence.

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[3houseswatson]

[John shakes his head, but there's a little smile on his face regardless.]

That may be true, but you can't really be surprised if shouting someone's scandals and secrets blows up in your face a little. Or a whole hell of a lot. Probably mostly the latter. Especially if you were to do something like that at the soonest gathering of my family you might find yourself at.

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[3potionproblem]

Like the wedding?

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[3houseswatson]

Yeah. The wedding. [He laughs a bit awkwardly and rubs the back of his head.] Though maybe I should ask if you want to go to it as more than a friend when you're less busy... being two people at once.

Assuming you'd like to go at all, I mean.

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[3potionproblem]

It might be a nice gesture, yes.