✧ — passionfruit green tea.

[boba]

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[transmit]

It still feels dangerous testing my luck around her…

[ he isn't ready to fight for his life when his heart is still full of whimsy, okay… ]

So? You didn't just find me to offer me a bed, did you?

[oversea]

No.

[ he really was willing to see how long this would go before elysium cracked, but. ]

I thought you left.

[transmit]

[ never………

or at least until they docked, and elysium would want to tag along to whatever town or city that'd take them to. ]

I didn't say bye, did I?

[oversea]

... I suppose you didn't.

[ is he bad for assuming that elysium might have just ditched...? ]

[transmit]

[ yes. the worst. ]

Mhm. Are you going to head back to your cabin now? It's late.

[oversea]

I might just do a walk around.

[ ... ]

I can bring you food. And supplies.

[transmit]

I still have a good amount of the rations that were meant for my way back.

[ hmm. how to work this. ]

But if there's anything you need from me or want to give me, you can probably just leave it on your table and I'll get it eventually.

[ besides him, only nene would have the audacity to break into the captain's quarters… ]

[oversea]

...Okay.

[ he really is committing to a prank. but thorns has no reason to think this will last longer than a week at most. ]

But tell me when you get bored of it.

[transmit]

Mhm. If I plan on going anywhere, I'll let you know.

[ what is this… communication??????? ]

[oversea]

... Cool.

[ ?????? ]

I'm going to take a sweep of the ship. [ ... ] Where are you staying?

[transmit]

I didn't answer you the first time. What makes you think I'll answer the second?

[ taps thorns' forehead. ]

You'll have to figure that one out yourself.

[ like a minigame… find his body in ihop ]

[oversea]

[ OKAY. ANNOYING. ]

That won't be hard.

[transmit]

Uh huh. Then when you get lonely, you know where to go.

[ makes it even more annoying for him to. ]

[oversea]

Don't you mean when you do?

[ elysium is the one with only thorns to talk to... ]

[transmit]

[ he is a creep currently getting his enrichment through people watching…

but yeah that itself would get old eventually. ]

I said what I said.

[ are we really counting the other people around thorns atm aside from like. weedy. speaking of— ]

But no, Weedy knows I'm still here, too. Just by virtue of letting her know it wasn't me handing back our report. Now——her expression was funny. If only you could've seen it!

[oversea]

You told her and not me...

[ there is a work related reason he told weedy and not him but whatever. ]

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Are you jealous?

[oversea]

No.

[ weedy is his best friend? whoa. ]

[transmit]

The few times I've spoken to her, it's mostly to see what I could help her with. She's having the time of her life studying La Conquista.

… Which I guess is the Cuna de Nene now? I can't believe you let that happen.

[oversea]

We practice democracy here.

[ thorns did not really care enough about the name. ]

[transmit]

I don't think there's a better show of it than that… But you best hope most of the people you end up working with don't understand Iberian.

[ he reaches out, places a hand on thorns' head. ]

You should get back to your rounds before it gets too late.

[oversea]

[ he swats at him. ]

Mm. You know where to find me if you need me, amigo.

[ and with that... he will be off. ]

[transmit]

[ he will… watch thorns go off. it really is more awkward than he thought it'd be interacting with a thorns that doesn't remember, but it's fine.

thorns is thorns—and being next to him is enough.

…

he goes to start thinking about menacing more pirates. ]

[oversea]

[ meanwhile thorns is thinking it's nice that his good friend decided to hang out... even though he is acting a little strangely, but maybe he's just overdue for a break.

he finishes his rounds and heads to bed... while wondering where elysium is sleeping... ]

[transmit]

[ he is sleeping in a place that is very creaky and hidden with nothing but several blankets to his name as part of bedding, but that's okay!!! because he has gone through so much worse on his travels that this is fine.



he will continue to just haunt the cuna de nene until they dock. or until thorns decides to hunt him down again for some reason. ]