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[hot_mess_express]

Who: All the cute little heroes
When: Day 35, evening
Where: Back To Your Regularly Scheduled Great Outdoors, Just outside the train

[ The beach fades away all at once, taking the cheery sunshine with it as evening hits all at once-- it melts away in a shower of sparkles as the familiar setting re-emerges. There are new stars in the sky above in clover pink, senna red, jasmine blue, and licorice violet.

Just before the beach disappears entirely, the bubbly voice speaks once more: ]

Wasn't that so much fun! You all rrrrrreally got to know each other, didn't you? Keep up the good work~!

[ If you had any alcohol in hand you still have it, otherwise everything from the trial is gone. ]

Comments

[unaffective]

[ has like

sand in her hair as she shuffles up to him on her way back into the train, rubbing her eyes as she stares up at him. very obviously just woke up ]

Brother...

[fisherofmen]

[ peering down to her with a smile ]

Elaine. You're awake.

[unaffective]

I'd thought ...

[ that it was a dream because i woke up and you weren't there :(

to her credit she doesn't start crying for once but she does look like she wants to, or is about to, ]

... Mm. It's hardly so important. Would you like some tea...?

[fisherofmen]

[ with a nod, as he jumps off from the top of the high thing he's on - whatever it is - and lands on his feet in a crouch like a cat ]

Tea sounds lovely.

[unaffective]

[ oniichan

with that decided she's leading him back to senna's car, making the purchase on her phone and grabbing it from their locker to get to brewing right away ]

Was the game enjoyable?

[fisherofmen]

[ meow

standing up properly to follow after her ]

It was fine. I didn't really care either way.

[unaffective]

... That - you've been saying that quite often lately...

Of course, to the greater end that is the object of this place any such things certainly must be trifles... however - all the same, Brother - your health isn't to be neglected.

[ a pause. if he picked up her name at some point and is fine with the relation then what she should say is ]

That is...

[ tentative ]

... You'll make Elaine sad...

1/

[fisherofmen]

[fisherofmen]

3/4

[fisherofmen]

. . .

[fisherofmen]

. . . I can't have that. Don't be sad, Elaine.

[unaffective]

. . . I'm not. Still, however, I...

... I suppose this configuration has me ill at ease, somewhat. Uneventful though this game may have been, disregard for your own self doubtless remains among your tendencies. I shall assist you however I may, certainly, but . . .

[ standing up to get the teapot, without finishing that sentence ]

[fisherofmen]

[ considers that for a moment, and then another, before he murmurs ]

It wasn't particularly loud as a trial, so I didn't mind it. The drinks were pleasant, and so was the view.

[unaffective]

Mm...

[ mulling that over as she pours some tea into a cup for him. per the usual elaine prep it's made and fixed the way kuuha likes it. ]

Though difficult to prepare for, I could certainly agree. The sea is lovely, isn't it?

[ more or less everything she's said to him has had some fondness to it but there is a very distinct kind of softness to that last sentence, a gentle nostalgia ]

[fisherofmen]

[ automatically, he's picking it up - it's not prepared in a way that he dislikes, given they're the same person, and he takes a moment to breathe in the aroma ]

. . . It's comforting.

[ before he takes a drink ]

[unaffective]

[ goes




stock still waiting for his reaction, nervous ]

[fisherofmen]

[ hmm






hmmmmmm ]

[unaffective]

[ waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa ]

[fisherofmen]

[ drinks



the whole thing


with this face ]

[unaffective]

[ ONIICHANNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN ]

[fisherofmen]

[ sets the cup down.


looks at her. ]

[unaffective]

[ staring back at him clearly spooked, face flushed

pretty clearly having just worked herself up into a mess waiting for his tea opinion ]

[fisherofmen]

I'd like another cup, please.

[unaffective]

A-Ah - ... y... yes...

[ she manages to pour him a second cup successfully but her hands tremble a bit as she does - when she stands to go retrieve whatever fixings she put in it's even more apparent that she

all of her



all of her is shaking.

she looks like a baby deer. ]

[fisherofmen]

[ picking up the cup ]

. . . Elaine?