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[waitingforhope]

 [The feed turned on just in time to catch Mai in another sneeze.  Nothing overly dramatic or explosive, but strong enough and with a subsequent slow recovery time to indicate this was not the first.  And she was no expecting it to be the last.]

Ugh...I'm sorry.

[Taking a deep breath, she sat back and looked directly into the camera with a slightly glassy stare.  Hints of red on her nose and cheeks that--for once--didn't come from blushing.  At least, not the usually blushing from her.]

One of the kindergartners I was trying to answer a prayer for a while back must have gotten me sick.  [At least, that was the closest to an explanation she'd managed to come up with.]  I didn't even know I could still get sick, but...it's been weeks, and I only feel slightly better.

Does anybody know if cold medicine works on gods?

[That seemed to be the end of her line of questioning...except, at the last possible minute...one final thought occured to her.  A thought that promptly caused her to frown.]

Oh, and whoever thought to leave that package on my Temple doorstep?  Not funny.

Comments

[kokuyoyo]

He's a god of medicine.... who didn't pick up that cursed charms were making people sick...

[waitingforhope]

Well...in his defense, he's a god of medicine. Not a god of cursed charms.

[Trying to defend your honor here, Hakkai.]

[kokuyoyo]

He's kind of dumb... is what he is.

[waitingforhope]

[Her brows furrowed slightly. It was one thing to make such comments to someone's face directly, be they shinki or god, but to say it so blatantly to someone else, over a public network...]

And you're kind of rude.

[kokuyoyo]

Yeah.

[....Honesty???]

But for what, exactly...

[waitingforhope]

[Seriously?!]

It's one thing to offer fair criticism of your god. But to outright insult their intelligence in public to another god? Particularly when he is not currently a part of the conversation to defend himself?

It's incredibly rude.

[kokuyoyo]

He knows what I'm like.

[And hasn't stopped him yet.]

Is it less rude if he doesn't care or is fine with it....?

[waitingforhope]

No.

[...that's it. That's her response.]

[kokuyoyo]

[Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuugh, why must basic politeness be such a chore? Now he's remembering why he doesn't bother with it much at all. Chikusa makes no point of hiding his sigh.]

Why.....?

[waitingforhope]

Perhaps you should ask your god.

Being rude on purpose is one thing...but it sounds to me like you genuinely don't know the difference at all. Which, somehow, makes it even worse.

[kokuyoyo]

Being needlessly polite is more effort than it's worth. Doesn't it make it even less effort when another person doesn't care either...?