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🏠︎ Kyoko Sakura | 601
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sometime after ball // text

[blitzcheer]

hey its tidus. magic guy from the stupid party

want to throw some axes with me sometime?

[wishalone]

What the hell are you talking about? Axes? Are you serious?

[blitzcheer]

you dont want to throw axes? its a food and drink place too. someone told me about it at the pool park

[wishalone]

[Food...]

I didn't say I didn't want to. But I don't know what you're talking about. Who throws axes?

[blitzcheer]

we throw the axes. its part of the gimmick. you order food and throw an axe at a target pretending its whatever you want. maybe you get points or something. i dunno

[ He just wants to throw an axe! ]

[wishalone]

So it's like a game? Though it wouldn't be any fun to play if there aren't points to track.

Maybe we could bet on it. I'd say loser pays for the food, but I don't have a lot of money.

[blitzcheer]

what have you been spending it on? [ what, kyoko. ]

loser has to pick up the winners food for two days? owes them a favour?

[wishalone]

What HAVEN'T you been spending it on? Did you show up with clothes and food? [Not that Kyoko isn't used to going off the bare minimum. But she doesn't exactly have winter clothes, even if it hasn't gotten super cold yet.] It's not like I haven't been stashing some. But I'm not about to blow that on a game.

The favor thing sounds better. So long as it's a reasonable favor.

[blitzcheer]

that just makes me question what you wouldve blown my money on if we did go for food. sounds like the favour is safer to my wallet

so game on? today?

[wishalone]

If you win an all-you-can-eat bet, you get all you can eat. [Yes, she may have been assuming that was how Tidus would think of it, too.]

Let's do it. Where's the place?

[blitzcheer]

[ DANG did he get lucky there. ]

meet me outside the dorm. it's easier than giving directions but it shouldnt be more than five or ten min walk

[ Depending on how the city feels. ]

[be_notorious]

[[Date to before the final Heart meeting.]]




Look at this.



Hotter than I expected.

[wishalone]

What the fuck even IS that?

[be_notorious]

Some sort of alien fruit? Some other hot pepper thing blended up and stuffed in it.

Not awful. Definitely confusing.

[wishalone]

So, what, sweet and spicy? Because of the fruit? Or just weird?

[be_notorious]

Just weird. The same way that damn 'snoobloo' is hard to describe to anyone. Or have you had someone peddle that at you, yet?

[wishalone]

Yeah. I've tried it, even. It's okay, I guess. I'll eat it if someone put it in front of me, or if I didn't have any other options. But I still can't get over that it's snails. Why the hell do they put it in everything?

[be_notorious]

Who the hell knows? Maybe they're some of the original animals on this planet. Before the Head started porting things in.

[He won't mention he doesn't trust the history books.]

I don't know why they don't just feed 'em to ducks and then feed us the ducks.

[wishalone]

Right, right? Even if it's easy to get lots of them, you wouldn't think everyone would be so crazy about them.

Is there any food from back home you haven't been able to find? Anything you miss?

[be_notorious]

Some Cabal food.

There's this Emporer? Name's Calus. Pronounced like callous. He's the Cabal's leader, big old species of what look like space hippos. And he's a big old fat one. We're talking the guy that has his picture in the dictionary by 'rotund'. He's proud of it, too.

He once invited me on his ship for a meal. Seemed pretty impressed I could keep up eating with a guy about five times my bodyweight and twice my height. I don't know what any of that stuff was besides 'tasted pretty good', and 'wouldn't mind another go at it.'

[wishalone]

Remind me to never get in an eating contest with you. I can eat a lot, but even I've got my limits.

[be_notorious]

I burn it off quick.

[Literally.]

I'm damn impressed with what you do eat. You look like you're ninety pounds soaking wet. You can put a grown man to shame.

[Any other one that's not him, that is.]

[wishalone]

Yeah, well, I'm starting to think nobody really knows how to eat unless they know what it's like to go without. Everybody else takes it for granted.

[be_notorious]

Yeah. It drives me nuts, too. Wish I could shake them and say "if you don't eat now, you might not be able to later."

You never told me how long you've gone without, but I figured it happened.

[wishalone]

Yeah. [For a few minutes, it looks like that might be her only reply. But then, another text comes through.] A couple years ago, my family didn't have enough to eat. So it was all of us.

It was pretty easy for me to guess it happened to you, too. Must be easier to tell when you've been through it yourself.

[be_notorious]

[Hmmmm.]

[He doesn't ask if the situation was fixed. Because, if it wasn't? Nobody'd wanna talk about an absent family in text. So for now he doesn't. He'll do it later though.]

You know what? How about me and you go grocery shopping. I think I got us a little project in mind.

[He's got bad vibes about this place, and maybe some more constructive food storage might be in order.]

[wishalone]

[She's relieved he doesn't ask further. Most people would, learning a teenager and her entire family didn't have enough food. But she knows better than to assume she's off the hook yet.]

Sure. A project? What is it? You mean a recipe?

[be_notorious]

Something like that. Meet me somewhere?

[wishalone]

We can meet up wherever you wanna shop.

[be_notorious]

There's an indoor market. Best for weather like this. I'll send you the address and you can meet me there.

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[wishalone]

[Kyoko heads on over to the market, and... is immediately tempted to steal something to snack on. There are even some snacks on display right over there. They're calling her. It'd be so easy...

... but then she wouldn't be able to stand here while she waits for Drifter, because the salesperson would have line of sight on her, and could recognize their merchandise and remember they didn't sell anything to her. Not worth it.

Kyoko links her fingers behind her head and grumbles to herself.]

[be_notorious]

[The bad influence that is drifter picks her out from the crowd (via the snacks that also draw his attention) and he walks up to her.]

Lots of preservatives. Good call.

[He might even recommend some low key theft before the day is over. He doesn't want everything they do to have a paper trail.]

I was talkin' to somebody about plantin' some caches around the city. Seemed like a good call to include food in 'em.

[wishalone]

There's nothin' wrong with that, [Kyoko grumbles, part of her attitude in response to the idea she should eat healthy. Mami definitely would've commented on it, now that she thinks about it. (She doesn't want to think about it.)

But his explanation clears her mood, piques her interest. ... but doesn't change her thought trajectory.] Preservatives would be a good idea, then. So it's still fresh whenever someone goes to use 'em.

[be_notorious]

Right! So. How are you on doin' somethin' a little bad.

[AKA, he's thinking about some stealing.]

'Cause sure, we can pay. Or we can pay for half and get twice as much as we need.

[One of them buys. One of them steals. If one gets questioned, Drifter uses his ghost to pass the receipts all discrete like. Easy peasy.]

[wishalone]

[A beat.

And then Kyoko grins, wide and sly.]

Only a li'l bad? [She's in. She's definitely in.] How much are we gettin'?

[be_notorious]

I just had a few commissions come in, so I say we could get a few bagfuls each pretty easy.

[And he's very good at being distracting and loud and boisterous.]

[Even better when he can flirt with someone behind the counter. Best when they don't want him to. Then they're not just focused on getting him out, they'll not be eager to chase after him.]