2018-10-14: Horsing Around
- Log: Horsing Around
- Cast: Seraph Amaranth, Seraph Nimue
- Where: Adlehyde
- Date: 14th October 2018
- Summary: Amaranth rolls around at home in pajamas, when Nimue bursts into her life like a sitcom entrance! *laughtrack*
<Pose Tracker> Seraph Amaranth has posed.
The Festina Lente is... incredibly easy to spot to those that are Resonant. Really, Nimue has no problem with this; she's been told that Ammy's set up shop and home in Adlehyde following their teleportation to Filgaia. She's also not really been active in digging or anything which-- isn't really a surprise, given that her dear sister-in-spirit is more of a bystander in heart unless forced to it.
Inside, Amaranth is... is...
... curled up with a giant dove pillow and rolling around on her bed kicking her legs as she recants h-having just k-k-k-kissed on her first date with Talia. Aaaaaa!!
Help Nimue, Ammy is in love!!
<Pose Tracker> Seraph Nimue has posed.
Welp! Time to interrupt all that!
Nimue strides into the Festina Lente, almost *swaggering*, really -- inasfar as one can do that while carrying a mesh sack bigger than they themselves are. She doesn't knock, she doesn't call out when she's close -- she just kicks open the door, declares, "Sorry, Nimue time!" and swings the bag over her shoulder onto the floor of the shop.
After a moment, her gaze actually finds Ammy, and she... pauses. "What's your deal today, anyway? Also sorry I only have like sixty percent of the entire horse at this point! I like jerky too much!"
<Pose Tracker> Seraph Amaranth has posed.
Ammy's not used to someone kicking her door down.
Her standard was like, maybe, /maybe/ a visitor every ten years or so; some innocent child with more spiritual sense than the rest, that kinda thing, but she really ought to know better--
--and that's why Ammy rather audibly tumbles straight off her bed when Nimue kicks the door down and exclaims, face utterly red and dressed in... super cute polka dot pajamas?? She complains, "N-Nimue, come on, you could at least knock first!" A pause. "Horse? What?"
<Pose Tracker> Seraph Nimue has posed.
"Oh! Shit! Did you not get the message? I guess it *was* right before we all ended up on the Blue Star again. I found a whole horse and was gonna bring it as a housewarming gift! ... But it took so long to catch up with you... I ate like half of it..."
Nimue opens the giant mesh bag and a bunch of jerky starts spilling out. She is apparently completely serious.
Picking up a piece of delicious dried meat, Nimue takes it from the top. "Anyway I live with you now because Ragnell's friends got way too weird and crazy for me and. Uh." She pauses, then mumbles something extremely unintelligible.
<Pose Tracker> Seraph Amaranth has posed.
"A-aah... well--"
A pause. Amaranth did get that letter from Ragnell about how Nimue had a... less than amiable breakup with Crucible. She was honestly not terribly surprised, given how extreme their methods could be, but-- well, not much to it but...
Amaranth can't stop from turning her nose up at all the jerky spilling out. And then whining when some of her doves zoom down and start nibbling on it. "Noo, don't!" she complains to no effect, as they coo and fly off with individual pieces. "Wow, a whole horse? Geez... well, can't say you didn't bet on the winning one, then, hmm?"
She kicks her legs out gently and says, "I-- guess there's not much to it, though," with a smile. "You're always welcome here."
<Pose Tracker> Seraph Nimue has posed.
Nimue takes another piece of jerky and starts chewing on it; she then flops down on the floor next to the bag, like a weirdo. "Great! Anyway, now that we're back on the Blue Star, I can show you all my cool stuff that didn't come with me! ... As soon as I... remember... where I put it."
She frowns a little, then makes a small noise. "Anyway! What have you been up to, weirdo? Besides hugging things and kicking, which means you... *proooobably* found someone cute." A pause. "... Human or seraph? Like, no judgment! A little judgment. But mostly no judgment."
<Pose Tracker> Seraph Amaranth has posed.
"I-- can't believe the Blue Star is real, still," slumps Amaranth as she thunks her head back on her bed, which is almost too stereotypically sugary-sweet for words: four-poster, with frilled pink sheets and little and big dove and bear and dog stuffies strewn and laden about. Well, it's all illusory under the surface, so she can make it look like anything she wants to.
"I thought you and Ragnell just-- went off somewhere. Maybe tried to find Sin or something crazy like that. But the Blue Star--" she huffs aloud as she looks out the window for a moment.
"Um--"
She hesitates, as she turns a little redder. "W-whatever do you, ahaha, mean by thaat...?"
<Pose Tracker> Seraph Nimue has posed.
"Oh yeah! It's great! Way less icky than the Silver Star, honestly, and, like. Have you seen *Gears*? Or *grenades*?" ... Nimue has strange priorities. "It's kind of a shame about the whole desert thing but that's life! Or I guess more accurately that's a giant hole of not life in the continent. Funny how that works!"
... But now that she knows she's landed something, she *has* to pounce. She keeps going right along as Ammy turns even redder. "You know what I mean, Ammy~ You're all... blushy! Which means you *definitely* found someone cute."
She strides confidently over to Amaranth and rests her hands firmly on the seraph's shoulders. "Tell. Me. Everything," she says, with precisely no authority whatsoever.
... Then she reaches awkwardly down and behind her and retrieves additional jerky.
<Pose Tracker> Seraph Amaranth has posed.
"No, and I don't think I want to," Amaranth sticks her tongue out and says, "Those little fingers that go 'baaa-n!' are scary enough already, let alone anything huger and bigger," she sulks as she crawls back up onto her bed and clings onto the nearest stuffy, which in this case appears to be a giant fat dove with a spaced-out 'mrrp' expression on its face.
"U-uuuh... fine, it's someone called Talia. Ragnell's already given her the once-over already," she sulks. "I met her when... um--" A pause, as she hesitates. "Well, she visited my shop once and I made her and her brother some nice waterproof capes...."
She clings a little closer. "She's real cute and has a winning smile and smells wonderful and has a cute 'no?' kinda tic...." Oh no, someone's got it /real/ bad.
<Pose Tracker> Seraph Nimue has posed.
"Noooo, they're great! When I'm in Sundowner I feel like..." Nimue pauses. "Neeeeever mind! Topic is too heavy and boring for housewarming! We're moving back to the better topic!" Picking fun at Ammy feels like a much better use of her time, anyway.
"Oh, okay! Neat! If Ragnell approves of her, she's either totally fine or, like, a total disaster, but if it's *both* of you, it's probably fine!" Nimue thinks about this for a moment.
Nimu thinks about this for a few moments. "Smells wonderful, huh? *That's* a rarity for a human. Maybe you found the first valid human!" Nimue heads in steadily closer, and --
-- pats Ammy on the shoulder once, brightly. "Good job, weirdo! Valid humans need the *most* love and support and I'm not really in the mood, so, go for it!"
<Pose Tracker> Seraph Amaranth has posed.
"Sundowner? Wait, you have one of these-- 'Gears', whatever they are?" Ammy hasn't ever seen a giant robot and is liable to freak out when she sees one. Or perhaps be inspired to create an Even Bigger Dove to compensate, and that's saying something.
She gets a little distracted as she says, "Well, sort of. I mean, Rag'll never approve of getting close with a human. That's just the way she is..." A pause, as she laughs rather faintly.
"Yeah. I still remember... we went to the park... uh--" she realises she got distracted again. "... yeah. I think... I think we're a fit for each other. ... we've got ways we're supporting each other."
There's a sad little smile for a while. "I had to sin, Nims..."
'Sinning', in this context, is when she uses a Shadow Dragon arte -- breaking into the taboo that she deeply would rather not; more than just a personal code, a part of herself she wants to hide and bury deep.
"... but ah... um. She gets it. ... she can relate. ... so that's why I think, it can work... you know?"
<Pose Tracker> Seraph Nimue has posed.
"Yes! I have one! I stole it from a transport when they were doing... some weird human thing. I don't know. Maybe the driver was pooping! For a while it was actually my vessel, and really I would like to get back to that being the case as soon as possible!" Nimue gestures vaguely, before sticking to the topic of Ammy's pet human.
She decides not to engage on the topic of sinning, because... well, suffice to say that Nimue's view on it is -- divergent to say the least. It'd require *much* more energy than she has to do anything other than what she does, which is give a relatively sincere-sounding, "... That sucks. Try not to beat yourself up over it, okay?"
Besides. There's more exciting fruit here! "That feeling when you find the cute assassin girlfriend..." She giggles a little, then rolls over onto her side. "I really hope it works out for you two! It sounds like you can really relate to each other and really help each other!" Taking a deep breath through her nose, Nimue asks, "Sooooo... what's your next date plan?"
<Pose Tracker> Seraph Amaranth has posed.
Amaranth very decidedly doesn't comment on humans doing human activities and most decidedly does not touch the poop, because there's only one way things can end when a discussion about that can go with Nimue: south.
It's all the better, because Nimue doesn't talk about 'sinning' either. "... yeah. I talked to Ragnell about it... had a good cry." A pause, as she scratches her cheek.
"... ugh ugh--" Amaranth groans and clings onto her stuffy a little harder. "She caught me out, I suggested we go out and she looked at me with big wondrous eyes and I realised--"
A pause. "I have no idea where anything's good around here! I'm suddenly a virgin on wining and dining again!" She scratches her cheek. "I'm-- fixing that."
<Pose Tracker> Seraph Nimue has posed.
- This* topic is both safe *and* good! "Oh man, say no more, girl," Nimue says, sidling up to Ammy without pulling herself up off the floor. Wind magic makes it easy to cover a lot of distance quickly and unobtrusively! She just floats up there, like an air hockey puck. It doesn't actually get her up to Ammy's level, but at least they're *much* closer now!
"I can absolutely tell you the best restaurants out there based on the quality of the food I've stolen from them! At the very least in November City. Lacour might be a little harder... and I don't actually know if I've ever been to Adlehyde."
Completion: Dining - 64/234
"The hotels are *weird*, don't eat at any of them! You can *drink* at them but they have no idea what a salad even is! There's a nice little food stand out there --"
MEANWHILE
Tabitha deVriese blows up a food stand in November City with gravity.
"I'll make a list up for you, it'll be great," she declares.
<Pose Tracker> Seraph Amaranth has posed.
Amaranth wouldn't really ever impose on anyone, but it's true that if anyone could positively be called a meal-devourer on wheels... it's definitively Nimue. Though the fact that she's stolen... well... okay, it's not like she hasn't done that before. Back when she was more desperate. But still!
"... it's awkward in a way," Amaranth laughs slowly. "We went to this cafe -- it was nice, except as we chatted, some of the staff wound up whispering, 'Poor girl, talking to herself...' 'Why's she got two drinks set out?' 'She got stood up, didn't she?' 'Shh, don't talk to her, dear.'"
A pause.
"Dating a human is difficult!"
<Pose Tracker> Seraph Nimue has posed.
Nimue... can't help herself. In spite of how sad this anecdote might sound to some people, she is unironically finding it to be the funniest thing of all time, and is *desperately* trying not to laugh. It's audible.
"Yeah, I can totally see that happening! There's a reason I can roll around stealing things -- I swear the average person on the Blue Star is even less attentive to us than back home! Like, I just walk around the market eating apples sometimes!" Nimue *does* start laughing now, before taking the topic seriously.
"Anyway, I'm ... actually rooting for you on this one even though humans are dumb nonsense animals! It's different when they're yours." She giggles at herself, then says, "... Thanks for giving me, uh, somewhere to. Be."
<Pose Tracker> Seraph Amaranth has posed.
Amaranth kind of sinks with her mouth open as she-- palms her hand to her forehead like 'oh my god really', because it's exactly what would happen and she didn't even think about it until after. "Maybe I /should/ stick to wining and dining in my own place, where it wouldn't look as weird. Still, nice to have the option of going out..."
A pause. "You think so? Basically everyone Ragnell's introduced me seems to be from here. Kinda feels like an absence-makes-the-heart-go-Resonant thing, if you ask me..."
She shrugs, though, since she's not on the up and up. "... ah-- er. ... thanks... and--" A pause, as she actually does set the stuffy down and give her a hug.
"... yeah. Anytime. You know I'd never abandon you or anything, right?"
<Pose Tracker> Seraph Nimue has posed.
"... Yeah," Nimue says, quietly, as she's embraced. She leans into it, and eventually sort of... half-returns it? *That* phrasing definitely puts her on the back foot. "I, uh... I know." She takes a single, deep breath, reflecting on their shared past.
Then, she abruptly squirms out of the hug and says, "Let's go outside! I wanna sing as loud as possible and see who notices! And then throw rocks at them!" she declares, as if nothing ever got even the littlest bit awkward.