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[dated to Sunday morning! because most of this stuff wouldn't be happening at night. it's an overcast morning, and chilly enough that there could be snow if those clouds get any heavier!

prince_number_7 is heading home with a small bag, having gone out to grab a few things quickly. the bag contains a few things from what looks like a hair salon.

shellsandlight is seated in the park, looking a bit underdressed considering the temperature. he doesn't seem very bothered by the cold (living at the bottom of an ocean means having to deal with it, after all), and is currently enjoying a variety of candies that are likely to make him end up sick, more from the rate at which he is consuming them than for their contents.

fadedsketch is having a bit of difficulty pushing a fair-sized "portable" generator down the street. he's heading for his naga friend's den, wanting to give him something to power the electric heaters he's going to be bringing by as well at a slightly later date. he's already brought no doubt dozens of blankets by now.

paopuspirit is stringing tinsel garlands around the old paopu tree near the beach. it's already had some lights strung around it, all the way up to the leaves. how he managed to get it up so neatly is a mystery however.

cheeryskies has just entered the library, a bag slung over her shoulder. she seems set for a day indoors, just reading!

beforeitburned has found his way to an outdoor ice rink that he's never noticed before. there are cubbies full of skates of every size near it, and he's given into a sudden, overwhelming urge to try skating.

he's not doing very well.]

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Same.

[She crouches down beside where he's sitting, biting the lollipop clean in half.]

You look like you're handling it better than I am.

[gosh Riku that's not what you're supposed to do.]

I have the ocean, so at least there's some familiarity... a lot of the sea life looks weirdly similar to back on Alternia.

[Is so.]

A lot of things are weirdly similar. The parallels are pretty impressive. And then some things aren't similar at all, like... beds.

There's got to be some sort of substitute here for us... right?

If there is, I doubt we'll find it any time soon.

[She looks at him, expression deathly serious.]

Do you know how hard it is to lay on a flat surface with my horns?

Lay on your front, then.

[he would have thought that was obvious.]

Or on your side.

I have to! But I'd like to move around sometimes.

I know. It's really unfortunate this place isn't better supplied. I would have thought it would be, considering it brought us here in the first place.

You'd think. I don't hear a lot of good things about this place from the locals.

[Goodbye, lollipop. It's gone, and she's left spinning the stick in her fingers.]

But they also say you can find anything. Maybe we should go on a hunt.

We should. This place is fairly large, there's got to be something somewhere.

[and then they shouldn't tell Hachibi right away--]

Have you been on all the floors of the hivestem?

[Pause.]

Apartments.

Not all of them. I haven't seen all the... houses yet, either.

[She snorts.]

Those are such stupid names.

Now don't be rude, Riku.

[okay so he looks like he's trying to hold back laughter under that reprimanding look.]

I'm being truthful.

[And she looks smug. Don't you diamond at me over that.]

Proper human terms are even stranger than lowblood slang.

I don't know, they seem to have a whole lot of them that are pretty similar to highblood terminology.

Luckily. It's nice to hear proper words like 'refrigerator'.

[Silly lowbloods--]

You tempt me to use only lowblood slang around you, you know.

Oh come on, I'm just kidding. You know some of them sound silly.

I know, I know. They can be a bit... strange. Some of them are interesting, at least.

Some of them, yeah. I'll admit that much.

...Maybe we should ask if anyone's seen a recuperacoon, and just describe what it looks like...

We could draw one.

Oh, we could. A simple, standard one would be enough to get the point across.

It'd be easier than trying to explain something like that to these humans.