Overheard Starbuck

"When life is easy she complains about being persecuted."
---"What happens when life gets difficult?"
"She's a different person; she stops complaining. She functions but there's no way to guage how she's taking it."
---"There's nothing like a dose of reality to put one's mind into an altered state."
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"Silence as a symptom?"
---"Complaining as a form of prayer...complaints as magical incantations."
"Then her daily prayers are weak magic.