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[cardoperatedboy]

[From here]


What did you do that for?! This was way more important than some stupid dare!

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[cloakanddaikon.livejournal.com]

[and a short while later, dishes put aside and the replica's cake wrapped up, Zexion takes the bento from the replica's bed (replacing it with a fresh set of sheets), and follows the replica's scent through the dark]

[cardoperatedboy]

[is sitting outside in a sulk, watching Marcy thrashing something that fell into the lake.]

[cloakanddaikon.livejournal.com]

[sits down as well, placing the bento between them]

I was not sure if you would be hungry, but I did not want you to forget about this.

[cardoperatedboy]

Yeah... sorry I left so fast.

[cloakanddaikon.livejournal.com]

Don't worry about it. It's not as if I am unable to find you.

She seems particularly pleased with that catch.

[cardoperatedboy]

Yeah, I know.

...Yeah. Guess she's having some fun.

[cloakanddaikon.livejournal.com]

Do you mind?

Still. It's not what I would consider the best of entertainment.

[cardoperatedboy]

Nah. I don't mind.

I just... didn't want to be there anymore. That's all.

[cloakanddaikon.livejournal.com]

That's fine. Though it is perhaps telling that Marcy's exploits are preferable.

Still, if you are hungry despite that, feel free.

[cardoperatedboy]

[reaches for the bento and opens it]

Thanks. It was just... hard.

[cloakanddaikon.livejournal.com]

[the bento may have been made from the same ingredients as the picnic foods, but it's pretty obvious that it was specially put together. The omlettes were shaped into little solid emblems, the cylindrical rice balls were wrapped in strips of nori cut in the shape of Soul Eater, and here's far more meat than normal in the selection of simmered foods. And there are croquettes that, on close inspection, even look like tiny barrels, the occasional hint of peas or corn showing through]

That's understandable.

[cardoperatedboy]

[lets out a kind of small, watery laugh]

...You have too much time on your hands, don't you.

[cloakanddaikon.livejournal.com]

Perhaps, but I find ways to spend it appropriately.

[cardoperatedboy]

I-it's cute. I like it. Thanks.

[cloakanddaikon.livejournal.com]

It seemed a good way to encourage consumption of your vegetables.

[cardoperatedboy]

Oh, come on. I'm not that bad.

[cloakanddaikon.livejournal.com]

No, you aren't. Eat.

[cardoperatedboy]

[does, though he's picking through a little and paying way too much attention to the food. And eating his veggies.]

[cloakanddaikon.livejournal.com]

I have not seen you around much recently. Has something here caught your interest?

[cardoperatedboy]

No... not really. I guess I've just been killing time.

[cloakanddaikon.livejournal.com]

Does that give good experience?

[cardoperatedboy]

Extremely mediocre. Sucky drops, too.

[cloakanddaikon.livejournal.com]

In that case, it's probably best to find something else to do.

Do you know much about mushrooms?

[cardoperatedboy]

Are you talking about the Wonderland kind?

[cloakanddaikon.livejournal.com]

No. And not the culinary variety, either. The Heartless kind.

I do not think I wish to know how you are acquainted with Wonderland's mushrooms.