[ ash and lili smash the murder government ]

[coastal]

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[voidbreaker]

[ DANA i need memshare week for literally anyone to scale his Issues ]

...

Fucking hell that's extreme even for this place.

As long as no one loses a leg this time, then that's golden.

[coastal]

Akira, right?

[she didn't stick around to watch all of the trials and executions last time but she did catch it]

You seemed like you made it out mostly unscathed from the house.

[voidbreaker]

Do we count getting sliced up and clawed in the arm as "mostly unscathed"? I'm happy to not lose my limbs though.

[coastal]

Is that what happened?

[she'll poke at his arm like it makes a difference]

But you're fine now, right?

[voidbreaker]

Yeah. It all got healed up before we left.

You might have noticed that Akira actually has two legs again.

[coastal]

So you're fine, nothing to worry over. I got my eye back too and I'm not dead anymore, so.

Seems like most of us are back in good shape.

[LILI your CASUAL MENTIONS OF TRAUMATIC INJURIES]

[voidbreaker]

[ ... ]

Oh, you died in the village?

[ it's fine. this is just life now. ]

[coastal]

[ . . . well.]

... yeah. From... sharks and drowning, to put it succinctly.

[there was a whole lot of other stuff but. she makes a gesture to her right shoulder, and then moves to lift her left leg where it's bandaged around the calf. shark bites, babey.]

... it's what I meant when I said - when you go in those places, they'll probably bring up what you least want to experience. They'll recreate the whole thing.

[in her case, one of the last few things she truly feared]

[voidbreaker]

[ ah. ]

...

That narrows down the options, then.

[ after a moment he just gestures at her shoulder ]

And sorry. If ribbing you about that on Friday was unwanted or something.

[coastal]

[




she peers at his expression curiously]

Oh? You care about my feelings?

[lili an is such an asshole]

[voidbreaker]

I'm not enough of a dick to drag someone over how they literally died. [ he sounds serious enough? ]





Unless they really fuckin' deserved it.

[ yeah! ]

[coastal]

[she's not going to disagree, she hates hisoka and he's always free game so

she just looks amused though]

Glad to hear you don't think I deserved it.

But I'm tougher than that, and know you didn't mean any harm, so don't mind it. I'm not accepting your apology because I don't want it.

[voidbreaker]

I'd assume if you did something like kill someone, and something wasn't stopping you, you'd frogmarch yourself to the execution whether people liked it or not.

[ it balances out, probably. ]

...

[ he snorts. ]

Alright. Wanna get back to the other bikes? I can show you a wheelie and you can decide if you wanna replicate it at your own peril.

[coastal]

... I mean, if it was an innocent person, probably. Otherwise I'd want to live as much as anyone else. That's just human.

[which she says with an awful lot of certainty, almost like she's been through it before? anyway she's not clarifying that though unless he asks more about it! cool!

she shifts back on the bike properly if he doesn't want to take over]

Let's go then.

[she'll wait for him to hold onto her again before she just fucking floors it]

[voidbreaker]

You fought for your life before then?

[ i mean. he's gonna press?

but he also gets a hold on her again to let her nyoom them back to where the bikes are. vroom vroom. ]

[coastal]

[what a great time to start NYOOMING BACK. she's not actually avoiding the question though, she just thinks it'd be better to have a conversation when her back is not to him and when his arms are around her waist!

lili drives fast though - she'd probably be a terror behind an actual car. but as is, they'll make it back to the bikes even faster than they made it out the first time, because she saw no reason to take a nice and scenic drive when it's so much more fun to go full throttle.

but as she nudges him with her good shoulder to get off the bike - ]

Do you want to know about me?

[she just sounds curious, if a little surprised.]

[voidbreaker]

[ but dana it's so romantic. and yeah, thank god lili an has no cars to run amok in, the streets will remain relatively safe.

probably.

ash hops off the bike and wanders over to the other spares, examining them closely before picking out one of them and kicking down the stand so he can wheel it over to where lili is, and reset it so it's stable enough to lean against. ]

Only if you want to talk about it.

[ he knows enough about sharing what you want to share, and not having your hand forced. ]

[1/2]

[coastal]

[she'll wait and watch, kicking her own stand down while she again adjusts her seating so it's like being on the bike side saddle. she's still an ojou at heart.]

I don't really mind talking about it, so I'll answer regardless -

But I feel like I don't know that much about you? Should I be asking you questions too?

[coastal]

[



wait.]

Is this a date?

[she normally wouldn't ask but a ) given the task and b ) kaoru said that you go on dates to get to know someone, now she's just checking because she's confused]

[voidbreaker]

[ .... huh. ]

Depends on if you want it to be or not.






[ gasp.

the music swells. flowers burst out of nowhere. ]

Counts towards a task if it is. [ the flowers immediately die. ]

But riding motorcycles is a pretty epic choice for a date, just saying.

[ there's another pause, before he adds: ]

You can ask me things, if you want. I reserve the right not to answer though.

[coastal]

It'd be more epic if I could do a wheelie. It'd be... raw as fuck? [LILI,, and without much hesitation] But I don't mind if it's a date. I'd rather do this than sit around with some cakes or whatever.

[kaoru is out there wanting to strangle her somewhere. please stop being bad at being a shoujo.]

You can always just tell me to shut up if you don't want to answer - I don't really have an interest in forcing you to do something against your will. Knowing anything is only worth it if you trust me enough to share willingly.

[otherwise it just seems wrong? but she'll start - ]

Where'd you learn to ride? And are you a soldier?

[voidbreaker]

Try not to wreck your shoulder again and maybe we'll find somewhere else with motorbikes when you're healed. [ "raw as fuck"... lili. ] Works for me.

[ kaoru is valid. ]

...

Hm. I learned back home, you get all sorts in Raquel. And -- nah, not exactly. I'm at a miliary academy, but I'm not exactly a soldier. They'll keep pointing us at shit they want fixing and calling it a training exercise, but no.

[ questions for questions is fine. ]

You mentioned five great tribes? And your dad leads one of them? What're they?

[coastal]

Always stuck doing other people's work... I feel like that's pretty common for the people around here.

[but she doesn't seem to mind questions for questions, at least. if he wants to learn about her, she's surprised but her guard isn't as up after a few weeks.]

There's four tribes that make up the entirety of Kouka. Water, Earth, Wind, and Fire. They all control sections of their land, and the Water Tribe has a vibrant trading relationship from our ports as well as the most beautiful sights in the whole country, even the capitol. The Sky Tribe protects the royal family, and those are the five tribes.

My father is General An Joon-gi and - I guess technically looking over our lands is his duty. [though she sounds bitter. wonder why!]

You said you're from Raquel? What kind of place is that?

[voidbreaker]

... Sounds a bit like the Four Great Houses. The idea of one family running a section of land, and there being one area that belongs to the royal family.

[ hmm. he shifts his weight again. ]

Tourist town. People come to area to visit Ordis, with all the fancy stuff catering to the nobility, and the shopping and the views. But they'll always veer over to Raquel for a good time -- we've got the bars, the gambling halls, the restaurants and the hostesses that people'll pay good cash for.

[coastal]

It's something like that - though the Generals aren't really based on family. I hear that the former General of the Wind Tribe keeps handing off the responsibilities to whichever rascal he picks up and likes the most. I'm still trying to figure out how to ensure I get control of my lands once my father's done being useless.

[she is so fucking mean.

though at the description of his hometown... she nods...]

Mm. That seems like the kind of place I could see you doing well in. [lili,] It also sounds more entertaining and lively than... Ordis?

[stuffy place...]