[BOND]

[luckyheart]

Who: lucky + unfortunate bystanders
When: day 43, afternoon
Where: the dining area

[SO TRAINGOERS. You may still be having water gun fights or you may have gotten bored of it, but if you're heading into the lounge to relax (or the kitchen to refill your water gun), you'll have to get past Lucky! He's taken over the table nearest the entrance to the car, dangling fairy lights from the ceiling and sprinkling silk rose petals on the table and the floor around it. There's a hand-scrawled posterboard hanging from the table's edge:

KISSING BOOTH
FREE
for good luck!!

If you try to pass he'll call out, so good luck trying to escape. But hey, if you play along you'll get sparks...

Or, y'know, you could be doing something totally unrelated in this post.]

Comments

[daydreamshimmer]

I see.

I...

Am focusing on shapeshifting magic right now. May. Get back to you on that later.

[Once she's got her head wrapped around a few things.]

[bowtiedbones]

Sure.

[daydreamshimmer]

[Will finally look up and]

[Oh right.]

[Will. Tentatively take the baggies, still eyeing Iori with caution, but also intrigue because]

[Yeah]

[Yeah, everything is just gonna be Like This.]

[bond]

[bowtiedbones]

[lori clacks her beak again]

I don't know if that's instruction or a gift, but it probably counts for one of those. Check your account, you'll have 100 sparks.

Re: [bond]

[daydreamshimmer]

[Jumps a bit. Why this, why anything.]

[Will pocket the baggies and check her Chain, though she keeps glancing up at Iori. Clacking beak is unnerving.]

...huh. So it does do both.

[bowtiedbones]

Yep. Bonds are a connection, they wouldn't work if they were set up one-sided.

[daydreamshimmer]

[Frowning.] That is how it's supposed to work...

[bowtiedbones]

It's how it does work.

[daydreamshimmer]

Except you didn't get anything for the bond. Just sparks.

[bowtiedbones]

That's fine. Sparks are currency. I can use them to buy an item, save up for something else, and the running tally contributes to the rate that I get my powers back.

[daydreamshimmer]

But isn't the bond supposed to be making the the sparks?

[bowtiedbones]

Yes?

[daydreamshimmer]

I didn't give you anything?

[bowtiedbones]

You accepted what was offered.

[daydreamshimmer]

No, I mean, I didn't give you anything for the bond? I didn't have anything to offer except like...listening? But that doesn't really give you anything.

[bowtiedbones]

That's a thing, though. It's interaction, it's communication.

[daydreamshimmer]

Yeah? That's functioning in society, but not bonding?

[bowtiedbones]

It counts. It's just a smaller bond.

[daydreamshimmer]

... [Looking down, tapping her chin with the side of her knuckles.]

I...still don't see it? What did I give you?

[bowtiedbones]

Social interaction. You met me.

Really, that's enough. It's not like a transaction or a trade.

[daydreamshimmer]

Isn't it?

[bowtiedbones]

It's bonding, not bartering.

[daydreamshimmer]

...

There's really people here who believe that? [More befuddled than anything.]

[bowtiedbones]

[lori

hisses]

There are.

[daydreamshimmer]

[She jumps at the hiss and steps back, watching the Iori.]

What's wrong with your familiar?