[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

[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?

[bowtiedbones]

She's just in a mood.

[eliza's mood, specifically, but.]

[daydreamshimmer]

And what kind of mood is hissing? [Gonna take another step back to be out of easy pouncing range.]

[bowtiedbones]

Irritable.

...she's not going to hurt you.

[daydreamshimmer]

Maybe, but I'll keep out of easy pouncing range anyway. From everything I read, I can't tell if humans are exceptionally good at taking damage or terrible, all the accounts varied wildly.

[bowtiedbones]

Her range is that she can fly.

But she's not going to jump at you unless you're a threat to me.

[daydreamshimmer]

Easy range. Like immediate pounce, flying can be countered with a second to react.

Then why is she hissing? Hissing is for warning, I've done nothing dangerous.

[bowtiedbones]

Warnings are for before you do anything dangerous.