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[ Her ears droop briefly ]

Only nine hundred left after my room. [ She spent a lot, and she hasn't gotten out to bond as much as she'd have liked to. ] Need new clothes, too. But! It's not hard to make more sparks! [ SHE CAN DO THE THING. ]

[ Her ears go back up. ]

Swimming in delicious honey is worth hours and hours and hours and hours of sticky feathers.

Ah, that's right. Fair enough. I can cover it. Not like I spend a lot anyone. Most of mine has just been weapons and cat stuff.

....we'll add a shower off station to the hotsprings. Don't put honey a bunch of honey in the hot springs.

By yourself? You sure? I can help, if we wait a few days.

[ But she won't protest if he insists. They're his sparks to use however he wants. As for showers ... she sticks her tongue out, grinning. ]

Aww! No honey-flavoured water?

[He shrugs.] I don't mind. I mostly asked so I wasn't like....being domineering about it? As long as I always have a few thousand in the bank, I don't really need that many for personal use. Especially now that I have an adequate about of weapons.

No honey flavored water.

In that case, I'll buy a honey-dispenser for the kitchen!

[He chuckles.] Fair enough. And appliances are usually in the low hundreds.

[ yaaaaaaaaaaaas ]

I'm full of good ideas. [ HEH ]

Wonder if Mao likes honey ... hmmm ...

Just make sure to specify its easy for a dragon to operate. Or for a dragon to get it to pour directly into their mouth.

Honey is pretty hard to hate if you like sweet.

Oh, don't worry, don't worry! I have plans.

[ Extremely vitally important dragon-accessible plans. ]

Don't remember if he likes sweet or not. [ HMM. ] I'll have to ask ...

Should I be concerned?

I never got how people couldn't. Sweet is awesome.

Hmm? No, no. No concerns.

Sweet is the best! See, Dusk, see, this is why I like you. You know.

....if you say so.

Of course I do. Most anything can be better with a little sweet.

Right! Dessert for every meal. [ Just kidding! Living off dessert would be a Terrible Idea for anyone, let alone a dragon. ]

Ahh ... hm, I wonder ...

I wish, though we do need the other stuff. And the other stuff can be good.

Just not as good.

...what?

Salmon is as good ... when it's got honey.

Hmm, well! It's nothing important, I'm just thinking about food. And Mao. And how much food Mao had. What kind of food Mao had.

....do you not like things beyond sweet and fish with sweet?

He worked all day without eating?

I like other things! Like fish on its own, and meat, and crunchy vegetables and berries and fruit and honey and frosting ...

[ because clearly, dusk hasn't yet grasped the depths of her love for honey. clearly. ]

[ sorry she's like this ]

He prob'ly ate breakfast ... [ It was like, afternoon. ] I wasn't hungry, so I must've had something before the memory.

Just checking. I get the sweet tooth, but I don't want to know what scurvy looks like on a dragon.

[Scurvy is a terrible thing.]

Is the kind he had important?

What's scurvy?

[ But she shakes her head. ]

Not important. Like I said, just wondering ... I need a lot of food, you know. Did he help me hunt? Did we buy food from human shops? [ That would've gotten expensive very, very quickly. ]

Disease you get if you don't have enough vitamins in your diet. Makes your teeth fall out and other nasty stuff.

....it doesn't seem like the place with a lot of hunting. Unless the house was out in the woods.

Ew! My teeth? [ Cups a protective hand over her mouth. ] Never, I need those.

[ Lowers her hand slowly ... ]

It's not. I think? Didn't smell like it, or like the sea.

Yeah, scurvy is not nice. Was a big problem when humans started wailing across the ocean. When space travel happened, people had to rely a lot on medical supplements because it's hard making sure there's food that will last that long in storage.

And you really wouldn't look good without your teeth. Pulls the whole look together for cute, but fierce.

What did it smell like?

And your humans don't have magic to help it grow anyways ... [ sounds like a nightmare tbqh ]

It smelled like, hmm ... [ Tilts her head back, closing her eyes. ] Like Mao's house, grass, flowers, tarmac, cars, honey, cats, dogs, small prey.

No. [Pause.] Yeah, no. Took a while to get the tech too.

So suburban?

See, this is why being a dragon is amazing. We don't need tech.

[ Tilts her head. ]

Small town? I think? Surrounded by fields.