Brieanna for a while tried to accompany me on acoustic guitar, but after a while she went back to the electric.Brieanna for a while tried to accompany me on acoustic guitar, but after a while she went back to the electric. The acoustic isn't her thing, I guess. She's really good, and we raise quite a ruckus, and it sends the cat ducking for cover. Oh, yeah, did I mention we've got a cat? I call it 'cat.' Pretty original, huh? Why do you name something that won't come when you call? Sometimes, though, when it's had just a little too much catnip, I call him 'Braindamaged.' It's a little black-and-white monster. Captivity, Week 28 I've finally decided to talk to Brieanna about it. Things have changed. I waited until I heard her coming out to tend the horses. We'd gone riding a couple of times, and the grey stallion was putting up with me rather well, although it occasionally had delusions of superiority, and I had to ride those out. His name was Smoke. So original, Brieanna Well, at least the Unicorn was name Laboratory. Why would anyone name a riding beast Laboratory? Oh well. "Hi," I said as I walked over to the stables. "Good morning. How's the work coming?" "Not bad; I'm almost ready to start the heuristics work." "Oh. Then what?" "Well, then I re-tune the sucker, and... well, I don't know. I didn't consider it past geting the armor up and running. Why?" "Just wondering. Like to ride with me?" "I was about to ask if I may?" She smiled, and took out Smoke and Lab. I will not call that animal by his full name. I asked her where to, and she indicated that she wanted to visit a lake that should be fully thawed out by now, about five miles along the ridgeline. I followed her, and after a while, I said, "Brieanna." "Hmm?" "Why go to all this trouble? I figured it out, this is all positive-effort therapy, isn't it? An attempt to make me feel, not needed, but useful. To give me things that attach me to the living, isn't it?" "I was wondering when you were going to ask me that. Well, you've at least solved the why of the whole thing. Have you got the who?" "Well, the pop-psych in my family is Paul, so I'd guess it was his idea." "Two for two. Any more revelations you want to give me?" "Just a few. One, I don't think I need it anymore. |