trans_9 | We're gonna shop till we drop! [Open]

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We're gonna shop till we drop! [Open]

Who: Open log that is open for all
Where: Planetside
Summary: Shopping extravaganza
Warnings: SHOPPING

Agrestic might have had might farmer's market and produce that would rival the best farms,but for a wunderkind, this wasn't anything she might have really liked. Food? Pah! She was content with the slop and whatever she could pull off in the sensoriums. After taking a stop at the weapons, she was busy looking at all the boutiques and large items and see what she could barter off and find. There were ingredients to collect and rare crystals to find so she could build more things that could be helpful to the war and dangerous to their enemies.

Maybe she could make something like the Black Obelisks again...only this time with less energy draining of the area. She had a feeling Stacy wouldn't be too happy about something taking away from her own energy.

Maybe even a hot tub...look, she had super important priorities, okay. Priorities that included hot tubs.

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"Yeah I know it's just the first time or something and..." Sniff. Okay she had it under control, and just used her coat instead. "I really do. I dunno what came over me."

Zetta considered this for a moment, and then decided to be deliberately horrible. "Oh, well, they say your first time is always special," he said leering at her.

It took her a few seconds to understand exactly what Zetta meant. Slow on the uptake there, Lash.

..When she did, however, the wunderkind gave a small yelp, and dropped the book again.

"Hyaaa ha ha ha--" thump.

"H-hey! I was just distracting you from being all upset and stuff!"

"Yeah well you still deserved that for what you said anyway." Lash was going to stick to that argument, even if she went and picked him right up afterwards. Good thing he suspected nothing!

"So anyway uh...since we're not on the ship, just between us, things have been getting kinda weird, huh?"

"It's just a present, Lash, I don't think it makes things weird between us..." Zetta had completely misconstructed the grammar of her sentence and consequently eyed her in quiet alarm and growing horror. This wasn't a break-up speech or something, was it?!

"What? No! I meant on the ship!" she explained. "The way people have been lately...not between us!" She really hadn't meant it that way! Honest!

"Jeez, scare a guy," Zetta said, exhaling and visibly relaxing. "What, you mean with everyone seeming like they want to start a giant fight for the fate of the ship?"

"Yeah exactly," she said nodding, moving closer to him as if whispering would somehow make it that less people heard. "Doesn't take a Wunderkind to know something's gonna budge soon and it might be both good and bad..."

"Yeah... hey Lash, just so you know? I'm in favor of breaking from the Daligig. I still say they're gonna turn out to be the bad guys in all this," he whispered right back. "So if I'm saying other stuff where they can hear me... it's just an act, okay? Don't think I mean any of it."

She tilted her head without changing her expression.

"Well duh! I figured that out a while ago," she replied with a grin. "You're pretty easy to read sometimes with stuff like this." If she could pinch his cheeks, she would have but, well, book. Nothing much to pinch there. "Still, I can't believe the Daligig might be the villains, mind you. Always saw them as the Ends Justify The Means guys. Very Black Hole-ish in their way of operating, you know? Tee hee either way, we get a war and that's all that counts in the end. As long as nothing's boring I'm in!"

"Just making sure. I'll probably have to say some pretty disgusting crap if I want to be on their good side," Zetta said, with a grimace. "And, uh... "

Your opinion of me really matters to me was the sentiment he was going for, but there was absolutely no Overlordly way to express that. Not that he could think of, not with those feelings clouding up his though process.

"Damn it," the book grumbled. "I didn't miss my body so much before, but now..."

"You and me both," she muttered a little too quietly, that it was hard distinguish if she had meant thta for his first comment, or the second one. She did leaving at that, sighing.

"We're supposed to all work together but it never was that way. Now it'll just get worse. You guys are gonna be close to the whole thing too. What haves if..."

She stopped to talk for a second.

"...actually I may have an idea."

Obviously the first comment. If he had a body he'd, like, try to do things with her. Perverted things.

"Oh yeah?" Zetta said, with an eager curiosity that only she got from him. "What's that?"

"A very messy breakup."

Zetta stared in open shock.

She grinned back, rubbing her chin.

"Imagine how the Daligig would react if they knew we argued about how things should be run on the ship and it ended up with us hating each other. Ignoring whatever else everyone witnessed, saw and knows about, right? They know us more for our uh...personalities. If we even got a tiny little bit serious...they could think it's deadly serious, tee hee!"

"Oh. Oh. FAKE breakup." The book exhaled, showing a lot more relief than he cared to admit.

"Uh, problem with that. Either we trust everyone we know with the fact that it's fake... or we don't, and they kill us. They would seriously team up and kill us."

"Wait why would they want to kill us? You break up, it sucks but it happens or something right?"

...Lash did not understand how breakups worked.

"No, Lash. They're personally invested in our relationship. They put time and energy into making it happen. If we even look like we're breaking up over something so stupid, they will never forgive us." And Zetta sincerely sounded distressed over this. Someone valued his disciples more than he let on, too, it seemed.

Eerie quiet for a while. Seriously, there might have been a few tumbleweeds that passed by.

"...wow that's really dumb." Dude their relationship was their thing. "Well it's not like you'll be making a few enemies pretending anyway?"

"Well..." Zetta was stepping into dangerous and unexplored territory here. "It's because they care about us and want us to be happy, I guess." He exhaled, frustrated.

Probably time he owned up to something he'd been trying to avoid saying. "I'm... not sure I could really stand pretending to be broken up with you."

"....oh." Well now she felt really bad for suggesting it in the first place. But she smiled back a little. "Yeah I guess it would be kinda hard, huh? I just don't want them using it against us, that's all. You know if they're anything like we were, they'll try every dirty trick in the handbook."

Kinda strange, in a way. Now that they actually had ~~feelings~~ for each other, they stood a slightly greatest risk.

"How would they use us against each other?" Zetta blinked. "I mean, the classic idea there is to kidnap the girl and make the guy do what you want him or else she gets hurt. But I feel sorry for anyone who tried to kidnap you... and I think you'd be insulted if I spent too much time worrying about you."

"You know, threaten to kill the other---WHAT." Uh no. No. No one was going to kidnap her and live to tell about it. Unconsciously, she clenched her fists and then groaned. "Laaaaaame! The minute some...dumb stupid idiot would try that, the only thing they'd find by the time anyone got to me was exploding guts everywhere!"

In other words, yes, thank you, she was very grateful you did not worry about her like that. ~~Victoria took more than the Lion's Share of worrying people anyway.~~

"...okay well I guess it's on to another plan then. I just thought arguing against you but you sticking to your guns even against me would have scored some points with them, that's all."

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