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[riptidequeen]

Nope.

[Still flat toned, and she wouldn't expect anything from Mercury. He's weird and annoying and for some reason that bothers her because she's not mad at him?]

[sarcaskick]

[There's silence for a moment - the next time she hears him speak up his voice will be coming from right behind her, leaning over her where she's rummaging through garbage.]

You're a lot more fun when you're at least giving me some sass to work with.

[riptidequeen]

[Man, Mercury is lucky there is no water here. Because what he did would have gotten him a face full of water fist if there had been. Instead, Lapis just startles a bit.]

Yeek, back off first and maybe it'll come back!

[sarcaskick]

[To be fair when he does things like this to Emerald he usually gets an elbow in the gut, so a splash to the face might not be so bad.

... Might not.

But her reaction is better than the flat nothing she's been delivering, and he'll humor her with the most intentionally small step backward one can imagine.]

How's that?

[riptidequeen]

[Wow. Such Space. Much Room.

Lapis does the next best thing, she grabs something from the trash, something mushy and... She'll proceed to chuck it at Mercury.

No words, only trash.]

[sarcaskick]

[Thankfully Mercury is from a Stupid Bullshit Fighting Anime, granting him the reflexes to dodge the incoming garbage (with a needlessly acrobatic flip to the side, at that).]

Hey, hey, watch the hair!

[riptidequeen]

Maybe the hair should watch its mouth first.

[She sticks out her tongue at him, but hey she's not going to toss any more trash at him.]

[sarcaskick]

You wouldn't ask a fire to stop being hot, would you? I am what I am.

[... yes he is also calling himself hot, so smug]

[riptidequeen]

Ah, but I can put out a fire without much effort. Doing that to you would be frowned upon... Or so I assume.

[Whatever, she'll get vaguely threaten to drown him.]

[sarcaskick]

Only if you can actually do it. I'm not so easy to extinguish.

[She wouldn't be the first to try! Ha ha ha... ha.. hm.]

[riptidequeen]

Mm, like I said. Drowning humans is probably frowned upon.

[She's going to go gather up her stuff now and start to leave. So if Mercury wants to keep this up he'll have to follow her.]

[sarcaskick]

Depends who you ask! Also depends who you drown.

[... He's bored and has nothing else to do, so yeah. Why not. He'll sidle along behind her, hands in his pockets.]

The world's full of gray areas.

[riptidequeen]

Well, I've almost drowned, and drowned, a lot of people.

[She's not going to stop him, but if she gets too annoyed by him she'll just summon her wings and take off.]

The grey areas are what makes the world what it is.

[sarcaskick]

[Oh. He didn't think he was talking to a fellow killer, but that's good to know.]

You wouldn't think it if you talked to the real goody-two-shoes types. They all think that hopes and dreams make everything better in the end.

[riptidequeen]

[Look, you help terraform some planets there's going to be a few drowned natives.]

One of my best friends is like that, and funnily enough, he's been right.

[She's still kind of getting used to having positive emotions, so she can kind of get where Mercury is coming from.]

[sarcaskick]

[Hey, it's a living]

Then he's just a lucky son of a bitch. The world doesn't work that way.

[He did plenty of hoping and praying for things to get better, once upon a time. Didn't help. Neither did being nice, neither did being positive.]

[riptidequeen]

Maybe he is, maybe he isn't. He's good at talking to people, he talked to me when no one else did.

[Hoping and praying only do so much, sometimes action has to happen. Or talking, whatever.]

[sarcaskick]

[Or patricide! Sometimes it's patricide.]

No, he definitely is. Anyone with that attitude is, because they didn't come from a place where they'd quickly learn that they're wrong.

[riptidequeen]

[Lapis just makes a non-committal sound, as this isn't really a subject she feels she can argue about. Or for.]

Well, he's not here so it doesn't really matter.

[sarcaskick]

[A shrug - he just hates the naive optimism. Or... most optimism as far as the world goes. Even here, where things are way better than they've ever been for him.]

Then what do you think is the case?

[riptidequeen]

The case for what?

[She knows what Mercury is asking, she's just being a brat to be a brat.]

[sarcaskick]

Are you a rainbow type of girl, or do you really just stick to blue?

[optimist or nah]

[riptidequeen]

[That requires some thinking on her part, as she's quiet and still walking before she stops to answer.]

If you met me five thousand years ago I'd say "rainbow" but now I'm just too aware of how blue the world is.

[She sounds saddened by this fact though.]

[sarcaskick]

...

Five what, now?

[Like... time out on the serious talk, this has to be addressed]

[riptidequeen]

Five thousand years.

[She says each word slowly and with enuncation, so he can't claim to have misheard her.]