( t e x t ; open to both courts)

[sundroplet]

how many people does it take to braid hair?

assuming there is a lot of it?

think before you answer this is REALLY important!

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[metalica]

How long is a piece of string?

[sundroplet]

[ . . . ]

is that a trick question?

[metalica]

Was yours?

[sundroplet]

NO.

didn't you read it's REALLY important?

[metalica]

I did. My question is equally important.

[sundroplet]

you need a string to braid hair?

[ NOBODY TOLD HER ABOUT THAT. ]

[metalica]

I think you might have missed the point.

[sundroplet]

ok let's try this again.

supposedly there's someone who has lots of hair and can't braid it by themselves.

because there's a lot. of hair.

how many other people would that person need to braid said hair?

no strings!!!

people.

[metalica]

Again: how long is a piece of string?

You asked how many people it would take to braid an unspecified amount of hair. It is the same ask asking anyone how long a piece of string you need.

[sundroplet]

Ha! I know!

You write in metaphors!

string = hair!

so!

how long is my hair?

I mean the hair in question!

right?

[metalica]

[ ............................... is this reality. ]

Exactly.

[sundroplet]

I don't really know.

nobody really...measured the hair before.

a yarn ball?

[ THIS IS STILL A METAPHOR ]

[metalica]

How long would it take you, alone, to braid it, I wonder?

[sundroplet]

assuming for the sake of discussion I'm not the ones it's attached to?

...I don't know.

[ rapunzel plz. ]

no one ever tried before.

[metalica]

I see.

[ what is he doing with his life right now exactly. ]

[sundroplet]

hypothetically speaking

would it help if you saw it?

[metalica]

I couldn't hurt, I suppose.

[sundroplet]

....fine.

but there are a few questions you have to answer!

1. what is your name?

2. are you in the hair business?

3. have you ever taken something that doesn't belong to you?

I'll know if you lie!

[ ....sort of. probably not. ]

[metalica]

So particular about who sees your hair?

Michael Xavier. No. No.

[sundroplet]

I told you it's REALLY important.

so! can you keep a secret, Michael Xavier?

[metalica]

[ if you could see his face right now, rapunzel. ]

Certainly.

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[sundroplet]

[ well fine, then. she turns the video on and for a moment, there are only freckles but then she steps back and well, you can see the girl. petite as she is and with golden hair.

a lot of it.

so much of it the end is nowhere in sight, it's all over the room, literally.

shiny and golden and long. ]

well?

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[metalica]

[ please excuse his shock, for a moment. a mutation, perhaps? but, no, it just seems like she needs a haircut. badly. ]

That is a lot of hair.

[sundroplet]

I told you.

[ deadpan look because she HAD ]

really important.

[metalica]

I would suggest a group of people, with experience, might be best. Otherwise you will be sitting for days.