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[fussiest]

That puzzle wasn't meant to be repeated!
Just take it. I can cast another key; there are materials enough to work with. I don't want you fiddling with the paneling of my door excessively because otherwise I'll have to replace the whole thing, and I just got it exactly the way I like it.
Again, I repeat: what's wrong with my balcony for the mint plants? I refuse to take your general laziness as a reason!

[justscribing]

Then I'll come collect it later.

[But laziness is the whole reason. Doesn't Kaveh come barging in enough times anyway? As if he needs another excuse to stay in Alhaitham's when his own apartment is a hurricane of half-completed ideas.]

Won't you just use my visitations as a reminder to actually take care of your mint plants? We can't interfere with each other's cultivation when the question is who is a better gardener.

[fussiest]

Oh, the lip on you. Isn't it the same the other way around? My arrival at your apartment will clue you in on just how often you need to water that thing. That's an unfair advantage given how I had to experiment with our mint plant in the first place.
We'll have to comprise. I propose a set schedule. We visit only during those times. At the very minimum, it prevents us from muddying each other's results.

[justscribing]

The difference between my apartment and yours is that I don't need any help with remembering a schedule. You do.

You're going to avoid your own apartment except on the schedule of monitoring your mint plants?

[fussiest]

Hey! I'm not that bad. I keep a schedule - you just don't know what it is.

[ and the crux of the matter: sometimes kaveh doesn't even know what that schedule is. but!!! ]

But I see where you are going with this line of questioning. In that case, no matter where these mint plants are, we will run into the same issue - whoever stays with the plants more often has an advantage.

[justscribing]

Since you've already worked out this much of the experiment, surely you can figure out a solution to that as well.

[fussiest]

And what exactly are you contributing to it?

[justscribing]

You want my solution to the location of this?

Obviously one of us will have to move for a month. But it isn't going to be me.

[fussiest]

You realise that that was the one solution I wasn't interested in proposing, because I know how it's going to end.
The counter proposal: we have our plants on our respective balconies, separately, and you can live with the knowledge that your choice for inferior lighting is going to kill yours.

[justscribing]

[The ending that Kaveh has to find a new apartment or the ending that he inevitably winds up in Alhaitham's.]

Removing a significant control factor makes the whole experiment pointless.

What about a third location?

[fussiest]

I highly doubt the experimenters here are finished picking out their experimentees from other universes, nor are they interested in building new buildings. Using up limited housing resources for this? No way.

[ a beat. and then, finally: ]

I know you haven't done anything to that spare room of yours.

[justscribing]

There's no point converting it to a study when I don't have any books to fill it with.

[It remains exactly as it has been. He's even spared it the ugly decorations.]

[fussiest]

Then, I'm using it.

1/2

[justscribing]

2/2

[justscribing]

[Now that he's has a second to smugly enjoy that.]

Fine, but don't try moving any furniture over. If you need something we can get it from a much closer storehouse.

[fussiest]

[ in the beat, the smoldering silence of a man who absolutely knows he's lost this round, just that he has no idea what game they're playing and what the rules may be. ]

I'll need a drafting table at the minimum. The mornings can be chilly, so a rug is essential.
I also refuse to spend a month looking at bare walls. You'll have to live with the art I put up. Clearly it will also improve your quality of life, so you've nothing to complain about.

[justscribing]

As long as you save putting them up for normal waking hours.

Are we doing this tomorrow then?

[fussiest]

Tomorrow just before noon, because you and I both know you don't know what normal waking hours are.

[justscribing]

Neither do you, or should I remind you that 3 A.M. is the time most people are asleep?

Just before noon, then. I'll go to your apartment so we can set up the experiment before moving your things.

[fussiest]

Fine.
And if you've no appropriate ingredients for lunch, we'll get some on the way.
One can only survive on rice and beans for so long before they go a little mad, even if it's you.
There are restaurants with interesting side-dishes. They're not terrible. What's the point of you having an ice-box if you're just going to eat non-perishables all the time? Some changes are coming to your habits the coming month, and every time you think of complaining, think of this: you chose this.

[justscribing]

You know there's something in between a meal being impoverished and extravagant. I do know how to cook.

[He just likes to make Kaveh do it so he doesn't have to.]

You checked out the restaurants and all you got out of them was side dishes? You don't even have the excuse of mora anymore. Try wishing for a main course next time you walk into the kitchens there.

[fussiest]

Of course I've tried such a thing! I've had the food there as well.
The whole point is that I'm going to be cooking a main dish to go with the side-dishes because the main dishes I make are far better.

[justscribing]

As long as you aren't constructing buildings out of it. But do you really want to cook before or after a bunch of physical labor?

[fussiest]

Before. We'll need the energy. And if I construct a building out of the food, what of it? It makes me happy.
Ah, on your way here, can you drop by the hardware store? I need four 3x20 extra long rivets.

[justscribing]

You'll be wasting my time as well as yours making food sculptures for lunch.

[If he could raise an eyebrow in text.]

Why?