backdated to mid-morning yesterday, oops!

[fading]

[if anyone has attempted to contact Nami to wish him a Merry Christmas, they'll have been informed that the number is currently not in service. this might have something to do with the fact that, inside Nami's trashed apartment, his phone is sitting in a puddle of paintwater, sparking. Nami's nowhere to be found!


there's a frantic Kai calling for Nami as he makes his way through the park. he can feel that Nami's still in the dressing room, but there's a wall between their connection so solid he can't sense anything other than that.]



(ooc: Nami got a heart for Christmas. unfortunately, he's had a lot of negativity 'bottled up' so to speak, and the sudden onslaught of proper emotion wasn't taken well. he's in hiding, having taken a portal straight from his apartment! responses will be from Kai, at least at first, despite the fact that the post is from Nami.)

Comments

[f1re0nthesun]

Are you kidding, I did most of it, once Kai showed me how to put the lights on.

[he flops onto the couch after putting a movie in; it's probably another one of the terrible ninja movies Ri gave him a couple of years ago. he's more interested in talking to Riku anyway. :> ]

[dawnrise]

[She actually laughs a little. It maybe sounds a little tired, but hey, happy things.]

Good for you.

[f1re0nthesun]

And I'll have fun burning it once it's too dried out to have in here anymore, so there's that too, I guess.

[hmmm what can they talk about, since they already talked for a good long while the night before...]

[dawnrise]

You should see Christmases on the islands.

[She looks amused.]

I think you'd like it.

[f1re0nthesun]

I probably would. I like most things if I try them once.

[did he just wiggle his eyebrows at you, Riku. he might have, or it might've been a trick of the light.]

[dawnrise]

[Good job she almost snorted her coffee.]

[f1re0nthesun]

[ :D ]

So how've you been besides the party we were at last night, and then taking care of Nami this morning?

[dawnrise]

[She gives him a suspicious look, then relaxes again.]

Fine. I haven't done much else.

[f1re0nthesun]

Sounds pretty boring. Maybe you should've come over here to visit. You could have at least had fun watching Apricot tunnel around in the snow out back.

[why so suspicious. :( ]

[dawnrise]

[It was only there for a second, gosh.]

I'd like to know when you think I had time for that. Besides, I have enough of that with Serein. I took her to Christmas Town plenty of times over the summer.

[f1re0nthesun]

[he snorts at that and gets busy eating that muffin he brought in here with him.]

I dunno, "haven't done much else" sounds an awful lot like not doing anything at all and having lots of free time, to me.

[dawnrise]

[He gets a flat look.]

Really? It sounds to me like "you just saw me last night and I've been busy this morning".

[f1re0nthesun]

[EYEROLL.]

I meant before yesterday, and in general. I have no idea what you do with your free time, but I'm curious now, though of course you don't have to tell me if you don't want to.

[dawnrise]

What do you think I do? Walk my dog, explore, turn into a wolf once a month... Pretty much anything I want. Hard to find limits in this place. You should hang out in the apartments more. There are still crazy rooms like there was before.

[f1re0nthesun]

Yeah? I should go over there sometime, then. There're a lot of rooms that I only ever heard about from people.

[HE'S TRYING TO MAKE SMALL TALK, RIKU you should pick a new discussion topic now, because he's out of ideas.]

[dawnrise]

There's a tentacle cafe.

[How's that?]

[f1re0nthesun]

I... what. How does that even work.

[are you served by tentacles? are you served tentacles themselves? is the cafe MADE of tentacles?]

[dawnrise]

Basically you're surrounded by this huge... creature, I don't know. It's like there are tentacles just coming out of the walls, but it's alive. They have these little chocolate bread things. They're not bad.

[Yes. This is really happening.]

[f1re0nthesun]

[he's quiet for a long moment while he considers this. the exact moment when he realizes that tentacles could double as bondage + penetrative sex is perfectly visible on his face. he looks pretty psyched about it, like he's just discovered that everything is made of ham. technically he shouldn't be so interested, because of the similarities to what's happened with Kai in the past, mostly involving Marluxia, but.]

So is there anywhere else with tentacles like that?

[dawnrise]

[...............this would the most deadpan expression Riku has ever given him, except for the horror lingering behind it.]

Not anywhere I'm telling you.

[f1re0nthesun]

Aw. Whatever, I'll find them on my own.

[hey, she mentioned it in the first place. he's just going to calmly finish his coffee.]

[dawnrise]

Suit yourself. I'm not having any part of it.

[The closest she's ever come to anything like that was a shared dream with Roxas. Though she has chopped off several stray arms from the tentacle room.]

[f1re0nthesun]

[and then some day in the future Riku was exploring and came across Axel's clothes and a towel outside an unmarked door, and could never look him in the eye again.]

I know there's a room full of pillows, too, and other rooms like that. Kai's told me about a few of them that he's found. I think that one a couple of years ago at Halloween was the most interesting, though.

[dawnrise]

Which one was that?

[If he's talking about one they're both familiar with, she's not sure which.]

[f1re0nthesun]

The one where all our injuries from things that happened in the DR got recreated without any actual blood loss or pain or anything. It was pretty creepy, but kind of neat, too.