riptidequeen | IC Inbox for Prismatica

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?

No, only mistaken for one.

[She sounds bitter, it's a touchy subject for her.]

[It's... a point of interest for him, as someone who has basically come to terms with the fact that he'd be a traitor if his old boss showed up and tried to bring him in line again.]

How'd it feel? Dropping the barn on them, I mean.

[Mostly it's the whole being mistaken for a Crystal Gem and being shoved in a mirror that's a touchy subject. The whole barn thing was, well, of her own choosing.]

I was helping out my friends, so good I guess? It wasn't really the time to be focused on feelings and such.

... Fair enough.

[W E L P that's as close to delving into talking about feelings that Mercury wants to get, so--]

If I paid you enough, could you drop a barn on someone else?

... Depends. I'd also have to find a barn no one was using to drop on whoever it is.

[Not that Lapis needs money, but she can humour Mercury for the time being.]

[He doesn't seriously have anyone here to drop a barn on. He's just having fun.]

Oh, I don't care if it's being used. All the animals would just make it hurt more because it'd be heavier, right?

I'm not going to lift a barn full of living things just to drop on someone.

[She has standards!]

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