==> Go for a walk and smell the oncoming spring season

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“Really now? Yes, do keep me up to date with his speeches! Hehehe, I would love to have a talk with him! It’s fine to want to keep excelling; from what I’ve heard you’re brilliance exceeds that of most people your age~ Hehehehe~

…..Rose, your large words are hurting my brain! Simplify your sentences, there’s no need for such fancy language, this isn’t a read-aloud essay! Hehehe, but I don’t like grey, it tastes funny! Like when Karkat types in grey text and it doesn’t taste as good as teal or red! Hehehe~ But that really has no relevance to this conversation! That’s more like a personal problem, hehehehe~

You could say that! I just think all the senses are good for you, especially taste and smell! Hehehe, you never realize how distinct each person’s scent is until you focus on it! Being blind allows that, hehehe, so most times I can just sniff people out! Like you, you smell like kittens, perfume, and book pages! Old books, like an old catalog or something! It’s very specific, in fact, it’s an oddly enjoyable smell, heheheh! I thinks that was the first thing I liked about you was your smell! Of course, you have other likable qualities as well, hehehe~

Well, I think you would want to know everything so you can understand! If something changes or something goes wrong, you want to be able to act upon it immediately, hehehe! If you know the area inside and out, then that shouldn’t be a problem! You’d be able to adjust quickly and move on with your life! Hehehe, but even I don’t know everything about this place, it would take a lot of time to understand something ever-changing! And I just like knowing! To think of every outcome and analyze the best and worst possible outcomes to pick the most desired one is something I take pride in! With no sight to distract me, I can focus on the thought of something better than the visual~! Hehehehe!”

>You pull your feet from the water of the stream and pat them down lightly with your socks, in an attempt to dry some of the water off of them before slipping on said socks and tying up your red sneakers, wiggling your toes a little in the new warmth of your shoes before sighing softly. Night was beginning to creep into the woods, and you knew that both you and your new-found friend should depart soon. Should couldn’t come back to the dorms, it was against school-policy to let anyone in past the lobby, but you held tight to the hope that should would keep her promise and return to this spot, where you could converse again some time. She has such a simple outlook on life, to get from point A to point B in minimum time was her goal on most accounts, and she hardly ever stopped to smell the roses. You would have the chance to teach her about the wonders around her, and the things she has been missing. And, perhaps, she would be able to bring back your outrageous assumptions on some things and make you slightly more earth bound. One Seer to another, you would create a bond.

“Hehehe, of course! There’s much to learn from likeness, I always say! Looking at it from another view might be a good change in my life of colors and sounds, heheheh! I am well assured you have much to give me, Miss Lalonde!”

I’ll try to do that if I can.  I really do want to push the limits of what one can do without sight, but I’m afraid I’ve started too late to accomplish some of the more ambitious tasks of compensative and adaptive mechanisms; the neuroplasticity required to effect some of them fully requires blindness from birth or at least a very early age.  I wonder if there’s some way to tap into that immature state, though, after the fact; I think it might help those that acquire blindness later to improve their own abilities to manage greatly.

I’ll use whatever words I like, thank you very much, Ms. Pyrope.  I think that these in particular don’t receive enough use and could do with the extra publicity.

Hmm…grey was always one of my favorite colors when I could still see.  I’ve expanded my horizons, though, since then.  But perhaps there’s something to be said for the ambiguity, the anonymity, the essential mystery implied in the color grey.  Then again, that in its entirety could be a flawed assumption stemming from the perception that I even still understand the color as it is.

I don’t think it’s so much that being blind “allows” that as having all of one’s senses makes it less important to use those other than sight to identify a person.  So when sight’s missing, usage of the other four cardinal senses becomes paramount.  I’m not so sure about smelling like old books, considering the fact that I don’t read many leatherbound tomes anymore.  Is that even a compliment, Pyrope?

You snort upon thinking about it any further.

That’s what I was saying.  There’s nothing wrong with the pursuit of greater knowledge about one’s environment, though some things will inevitably remain a mystery.  I wouldn’t think of sight as a “distractor” in that regard, but as a potentially valuable resource which most use and which we have to find in alternative fashions.  Perhaps that’s some manner of adventure to you, but I don’t find it particularly interesting, personally.

You wonder briefly how much of Terezi’s purposefully aggressive opinion of sight, and how much of her casual dismissal of its importance revealed a hidden, deeper sense of loss about the entire situation.  Then you mentally hit yourself for already trying to psychoanalyze this fresh-forged friend, but the thought remained, nagging at the back of your mind.  You always did love to project the character of the tortured soul onto others.  Maybe she was happy how she was—the thought just struck you as foreign how anyone could prefer the darkness of sightlessness to the panoply of vision.

You just can’t accept the thought of being inferior, of needing help to get where others have reached unassisted.  And regardless of what Terezi said, there were always times when you needed to rely on the kindness of another because of something that you couldn’t do.

And you to me in return, Terezi.  We may come from similar circumstances, but it’s clear we have vastly different outlooks, and that could be valuable for both of us.