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[edgewater]

[ parvati's in her room, you think. it's a simple space. it isn't messy, but it isn't exactly clean either. there's a lot of things just scattered about; a few fledgeling plants in messy and lopsided clay pots, multiple toolsets, and various parts and knicknacks that are presumably for her use later. there's a large beanbag next to her window, and multiple shelves lined with trinkets. some that probably stand out are a wooden statuette of tenna t-posing (?), a crochet snow-pikachu, and a neatly folded scarf that inexplicably looks like a long bacon.

parvati herself is close to the pearl, that she's propped up on her small table that's covered in even more random parts she's acquired, and never used nor put away. screws, bolts, some rough equivalent to bobby pins she's found, hair ties...

she's shuffling in her seat, grinning from ear-to-ear does she even have ears in excitement about something she's holding out of frame. ]

Guys! Look what I found! [ whatever she's holding doesn't remain a mystery for long - she pulls it into frame and holds it up to the aperture. it's a picture of two women, in a hexagonal frame. ] No clue how it got here, but I had this! In my room! Back home!

[ a wistful sigh. she points to the woman sitting. ] That's what I look like. Looked like. [ her finger then moves to the woman who is standing. ] And that's Junlei! My girlfriend!

[ her glee is almost childlike. ]

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[edgewater]

You don't gotta apologise for my sake. I'm just glad you're feeling better. Do you wanna talk about it?

[0dchess]

There's not much to talk about there, it's been happening ever since I was in the Circus. This is your moment, tell me anything you'd like about Junlei! It always helps when you can talk about someone you love.

[edgewater]

Well, if you're sure. There anything you wanna know? Anything specific? [ because ohhh where to start? ]

[0dchess]

Whatever you'd like, what's romance like among the stars?

[edgewater]

Lotta emails. We ain't on the same ship so most of our time not workin' is firing messages back and forth across the aether. That sorta thing. Junlei likes to write poems, but I don't got the heart to tell her they're not very good.

[ also, those terrible poems made parvati so down horrendous for junlei it genuinely made her look stupid. ]

[0dchess]

[Kinger is about to ask if the long distance is hard but- obviously being trapped here without communication is worse.]

Have you ever tried writing poetry back?

[edgewater]

Nah. She at least has the passion for it, I'm not good with my words like that at all. Unless you want to count overly detailed explanations of how I worked on stuff, I sent a lotta those.

[ she tilts her head to the side. ] You should see hers, though. Her rhymes were pretty bad, but she wrote all of those for me.

[0dchess]

That's what's important, sharing the things you love together. [Kinger sighs.] My wife taught me to see the beauty in a lot of things I couldn't before, like insects!

[edgewater]

What was she like? You mentioned her earlier before you forgot.

[0dchess]

Oh, she was brilliant, and funny... [Kinger sighs.] I really think she made me into a better person than I ever could have been without her.

[edgewater]

[ that's so sweet... parvati's resting her cheek in her palm with a sentimental expression. ]

Must've been real special, huh?

[0dchess]

Yeah. I'm still holding out hope that one day I'll get to see her again, but until then I just need to appreciate the memories I have of her.

[There's a melancholy in those words that suggests that "one day" doesn't just mean leaving Bottlecap Bay.]

[edgewater]

I hope you get to see her again.

[ no matter how long that takes, whether it's by just getting out of the bay or whatever he needs to do back home. ]

You sound a lot more... wise, when you're in the dark. [ far less dopey than their previous encounters. ]

[0dchess]

Yeah... I don't know why the light does that to me, I'm sure it only started when I was in the Circus. Not that I remember too much of my life on Earth at this point either.

[edgewater]

Are you at least comfy enough in the Spire?

[0dchess]

Oh, yeah! The dark is just what I want as a person and the cold dampness is apparently what I want as a mushroom. It is nice that I was able to build a little pillow fort for when it's super cold like this, though.

[Kinger gestures around him, or at least whips his head around in a way that seems like it. Because of Kinger's small size, one pillow makes up almost an entire wall of the fort on its own, which helps with how little space there is.]

[edgewater]

[ she sighs in relief. obviously, since she doesn't live there herself, she's not really sure what it's like. and especially not for the other pokemon. but if he's happy then that's good enough for her. ]

Just make sure you stay warm enough, 'kay? Get a blanket or something.

[0dchess]

You got it! [Kinger tilts his head.] Is that why you don't live in The Spire?

[edgewater]

Huh? Oh. No. Six invited me to live with him when I first arrived, it felt rude to turn him down just over bein' in a different guild. [ it's not like she enjoys many of the lum perks anyway. ]

[0dchess]

Six? [Kinger asks, confused.] Oh, you mean Perrin, right?

[edgewater]

Didn't realise you were on first name basis with him. He's kinda cagey about it. [ she learned it via bigby by accident oops- ] Yeah. Perrin.

[0dchess]

[OOC: Oops that one may have been player error, I think Kinger and Perrin have canonically done quests together but they haven't had a lot of actual CR, we might need to roll that back oops, I just assumed Kinger would remember Perrin by name rather than title OTL]

let's do the time warp 😬 orz

[0dchess]

Oh, Courier Six? He's great! He gave me a reference book of radioactive bugs for Christmas!

[edgewater]

[ ohhh. so that's what that was! ]

Ain't he? He doesn't give himself enough credit but I'm working on it.

[0dchess]

Glad to hear it, it's always important to make sure people feel appreciated. Especially when they can't appreciate themselves.