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Branch ([personal profile] branchifer) wrote in [community profile] longestnight 2023-10-07 05:10 pm (UTC)

I know assault as a word because you know, gotta have words for bodily harm when outside people do that. To you.

But I don't know what an embezzling is. Or mugging? I'm looking those up.

[He googles those.]

Oh, that has to do with stuff ownership and this...money thing? We don't have money - which I don't don't really get? To be honest? Like pieces of paper in exchange for things? What?

My village just has communal stuff. People know not to touch each other's sentimental things in their pods, like photos, but for less obvious stuff, we store the stuff we really don't want anyone else to take in our hair. Everyone knows everything else is shareable. If someone takes too much and isn't fair about it, everyone will tell them they're not being nice and they'll feel bad and replace some of it.

We learned about "stealing" from the Bergens, after we stopped being enemies. A friend of mine took food and didn't realize they don't also have communal stuff. They apparently shove people in cages over it? Su-per weird, if you ask me, but hey, shoving people in cages is kind of their thing.

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