Interview With Theia

hello, Theia.

hi. do I know you?

Erin.

nice to meet you.

you've been hired for the cover shot of the magazine, I hear.

yes.

are you excited?

yes, very.

that's great, I'm really proud of you.

thank you.

I've always admired you, you know. I really mean that.

thank you. that means a lot ot me. I work very hard.

oh, I know. that's what I admire most about you. so, what made you decide to become a model?

well, I knew that I had beauty--not just conventional beauty, or the kind that you can heighten with makeup, but the kind that I could prefect--limitless. the kind of work that goes into the shaping of my body is as much an art as painting or music or writing--a kind of sculpture, if you will. I know I can be perfect--

most people would say you already are perfect.

I know, but I can surpass what they think is perfect, and become something greater. I can do it all if I only work hard enough...you look skeptical.

no, I'm sorry. I'm more intimidated and confused that anything.

what do you mean?

I keep asking myself if I would know perfection if I saw it.

I see. Well, I hope you can take what I have to say as an attempt to be helpful, but I'm compelled to speak.

please.

you'd better know what perfection is--better be damn sure who and what I am--before you write another word.

I know--that's pretty impressive of you to figure out who I am so fast.

it was only a little obvious. only my creator would know so much about me.

true. I guess I'm just so enthusiastic about making this a reality. I know I need to learn patience.

yes, patience would be good.

I need to be more like you, I suppose. In a strange, cruel, and bizarre way, I do know who and what you are. I'm just having a tough time articulating it.

you know that no one will accept your perfection as true perfection, right? when you've articulated me, no one will accept me as perfect anymore.

that's for sure. you are rather...fearsome.

I do my best. maybe you should just leave it up their imaginations.

no.

good answer.

what makes you say that?

I was just testing you. you know me; I always need to put my two cents in, and you're just the same. you wouldn't be a writer if you were good at keeping your mouth shut, would you?

no, I guess that makes sense...for better or for worse.

well, they don't have to find your perfect to be true perfect...really.

no, they don't. if they can just accept it long enough to finish the book!

exactly.

you know, characters like Johnny and Edward and Selene are a lot easier to write than you are.

perfection is tough; complication is easy?

yes...in a way.

I suppose that makes sense. It's a lot easier to make them interesting than it is to make me interesting.

yes, but that's the challenge. it's fun, in a self-torture kind of way.

builds character.

no pun intended, of course.

of course not.