riptidequeen | IC Inbox for Prismatica

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?

Well, the last time I got wild I dropped a barn on one of the leaders of my people.

[Lapis is very much the stay at home and read types of people.]

... Okay, see, that? That sounds like a story worth hearing.

Not really. I was just helping my friends, and if I was going to be treated like a traitor I might as well be one for real, you know?

... Were you a traitor before that?

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