OMG VD!

[cavedwellers]

[Gosh you guys, there must be a holiday on! One of the bigger, more well-lit caves has been decked out for a PARTY, with heart-shaped BALLOONS and also red and white STREAMERS decking the stalactites and shit. There are BUCKETS filled with LITTLE CANDY HEARTS, and there is a FOUNTAIN featuring a rosy-cheeked CUPID who is PEEING PINK LEMONADE into a basin. Also ther are CUPS in case you couldn't tell the LEMONADE was for DRINKING.

Also, everything is HEAVILY SPIKED WITH APHRODISIACS. Eating or drinking the party favors will make you want to MAKE OUT with anyone who gets IN STRIKING DISTANCE. Have fun with that!]

Comments

[lifestudies]

Do you have many of those here?

[onlyhonournow]

[lopsided grin]

I would like to think so.

[lifestudies]

How do you tell?

[onlyhonournow]

... [opens his mouth. closes it again, with an expression of deep thought and confusion. hmm. that is a very good question.]

[lifestudies]

[it's cool, I can wait]

[onlyhonournow]

[fi...nally]

It's something you work at.

[lifestudies]

That's what my teammates on this last mission were telling me, too.

I'd hoped there was an easier answer.

[onlyhonournow]

[laughing lightly]

No, I don't think there is. [offering a hand] But I'd like to help in any way that I can.

[lifestudies]

That's very generous of you.

Are you always this kind to strangers?

[onlyhonournow]

... If circumstances permit.

[why do I want to pick you up? We just met, a day ago. This is weird.]

[lifestudies]

Hmm. What do you get out of doing that?

[onlyhonournow]

Just the company of others.

[lifestudies]

I see.

[rapping knuckles gently against his hand, listening to the metallic sound that makes]

I have been taught that's a weakness, you know.

[onlyhonournow]

[tilting his head, studying Sai with an expression of innocent curiousity]

Perhaps. But it's a weakness I choose to have.

[lifestudies]

Does it gain you something in return?

Or do you not have any challenges, and you need to handicap yourself somehow?

[onlyhonournow]

... No. That's not the case. Once, I abhorred the idea of weakness. Of being vulnerable, or yielding. Thinking that I could run away from such a thing.

[lifestudies]

[this is my do-not-comprehend face]

And now you...seek it out?

[onlyhonournow]

Not necessarily. But I've accepted that there's value in what may be considered weakness, and that there's more to life than simply running away.

[lifestudies]

I think you would like my teammate from my last mission. He didn't make any sense to me, but he...seemed to be able to take these things, that I was taught would make me weak, and use them to be strong instead.

[onlyhonournow]

I would be honoured for the chance to meet him, as I am honoured to have had the luck to meet you. ... There are some things that are more complicated than just being weak or strong.

[lifestudies]

I suppose there must be. But they've never been relevant to the purpose I was raised for.

[onlyhonournow]

[oh. those magic words. srs face. super close leanings in.]

Nobody can give you your purpose. You have to find it.

[lifestudies]

That sounds like a confusing way to live.

[onlyhonournow]

... Sometimes, yes. But nothing worth doing comes easy, or without a fight.