riptidequeen | IC Inbox for Prismatica

[ With all the Chroma he was racking up, Mercury never really needed to worry about cooking at home (thank the gods for that, because he can't make anything that doesn't go in a microwave). He doesn't... quite know what half of the restaurants serve in the first place, mind you, because what is fine dining to a boy who grew up isolated in the mountains, but he's fudging his way through. Never gonna order quinoa again, though.

Carrying a bag with today's leftovers (burger and fries, a classic that he can understand) he was in the middle of cutting through some back alleys to get home when he caught some motion down a side path. Is it his business? Not really. But there's time to kill, and he doesn't have anything planned right away, so he wanders over towards the source of the noise to find...

A familiar blue woman digging through the trash.

Huh. ]

... Okay, Laps, I have to know why you're playing Treasure Finder in the trash.

[Yes, he did shorten Lapis to Laps. Every syllable counts.]

[That familiar blue woman is going to be tossing what looks like a busted chair leg to the side, just to keep it separate from the rest of the trash. She can use that for something after all.

But then she heard someone address her, so she turns her attention towards Mercury and squints before recognition comes to her.]

Art supplies. It's cheaper than buying things.

[Which is true, also it's all junk so why not turn it into art? Better then it being wasted by going to some trash heap somewhere to rot.]

It's also a great way to pick up diseases and smell like shit all day.

[ ... ]

Do blue people get sick? I guess I don't actually know that, but you're definitely going to reek.

I can get sick, but it can't kill me.

[They can get food poisoning, so who knows what else Gems can get.]

And I have access to a shower, bathing isn't something foreign to me, you know.

[As she talks though, she's standing up and brushing her hands off on her pants. Since that'll make having a conversation easier for all parties.]

I don't know what is and isn't foreign to you, actually. Seems like every time I assume something's common knowledge, I end up having to explain it to someone.

[A wistful sigh, his fingertip touching his chin.]

It's really so hard, being me.

A lot of folks don't know much about me, actually. [And maybe it bugs her a little when she lets things slip out of the whole liking a person and trusting them.]

And woe, must be hard living your life.

It really is! I couldn't even finish my lunch today, I was so stressed out.

Do you know what lunch is.

It's a midday meal that humans have.

[Come on, Mercury, she's not that out of touch.]

[How is he supposed to know!!]

Well, what do you know? You'll blend right in in no time. Other than, you know. The whole blue thing.

... Do you eat?

[Well, he could learn if he wasn't so Mercury about things!]

I don't need to eat, I could if I felt like it.

[But she doesn't, so she doesn't. Eat.]

[He's learning by asking obnoxiously!]

... Seriously? So what do you run off of, then? Please tell me it's not garbage.

Human souls.

[She gives that answer with the most deadpan expression, even though it's not the truth.]

Oh, yeah? I ought to be safe, then. Common opinion seems to be that mine's kind of unappetizing.

["Rotten", is the word, or "toxic".]

... [Lapis can't help but laugh.] I wasn't serious, and it's magic.

[Seriously they don't really go into detail what Gems run on or are made from. But hey they do get tired and need to rest so they do have a weakness.]

Oh, trust me, I wasn't taking you seriously. If I actually thought you might try that, we'd be having a very different kind of talk.

[The kind that he's more familiar with, to be honest.]

I'm not really big on fighting, so I doubt you'd have fun with that kind of talk.

[She's just guessing that's what he means by a different kind of talk, that and she hasn't invested in a bottle or jug of water to carry with her just in case things get hairy. And she can't summon her wings.]

[Good news, she's right! It's... not hard to figure, really. He isn't difficult to read.]

I can have fun with all sorts of things. I'd find a way.

[Yeah she's kind of getting what he's about. Kind of.]

Oh? I'm kind of curious what ways you'd find to have fun with someone like me.

See, because it's you, I'm going to assume you didn't mean for that to sound the way it sounded to me.

Hey if you take what I say the wrong way. [She just shrugs, no skin off her nose if he gives a real answer or not.]

... Well the kneejerk reaction was "sex thing", but besides that I don't know what you do outside of digging through trash for "art supplies".

That, and being sarcastic, which I can at least respect.

[Pffft, she should have expected sex thing. But it still makes her laugh a little.]

I read, either books or things on the device, and watch the fish in Caihong. And it's a good way to keep the wrong kinds of people away.

... You watch fish? Don't they just kind of... you know. Swim?

[???]

Yes. It's relaxing.

[Not everything has to be about excitement, Mercury.]

[ b u l l s h i t ]

What do you do when you want to get wild? Watch paint dry?

Early November (no moons in effect)

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