clubhouse to barn

[despair_to_live]

WHO: The weeds...?
WHERE: The new Weeds Barn!
WHEN: 105 evening/night

[The Queen is sitting at the poker table, talking to (or more accurately: 'at') anyone nearby.]

...So, you see, my death at the ritual today was just as planned! It was all strategy! I called that demon out with a bet. A bet that no matter what happened, when everything looked pointless, the sheep would absolutely, one hundred percent, no hesitation, decide to throw us, the so-called 'evil' team, under the bus to save their own skin. And they took it! They wagered the sheep would be selfless to the end. Ha! That's the suckers' bet. Never bet on hope. Despair is going to win, every time!

[She finishes shuffling cards.]

So, that's how I won a bet, that's why we have this new barn, and I've got a sore throat.

[she grins]

How was your day?


[feel free to do your own thing and just ignore the Queen, of course.]

Comments

[stirtheblood]

[he had not thought this through as a real idea so he doesn't have an immediate response to that either]

...I dunno. Anywhere else.

[hotnbothered]

[ ... Huffs. ]

Well, you don't get to just leave me who-knows-where and run off to go change the world or whatever.

[stirtheblood]

...Well, if you wanna come help out with that you're welcome. Long as you know that hangin' out with me means everyone's gonna hate you too.

[still in a hypothetical tone as if he has not QUITE accepted this is a real suggestion. haha unless...?]

Or I can come pick ya up after either Kanata manages to change things or the whole world falls into the abyss, or whatever. Can't be too long before one of those things.

[hotnbothered]

I don't need your help to make everyone hate me. I'm sure I'd end up condemned within the day for something or other. I'd probably be dead within the day, too...

[ Also speaking lightly enough to tell herself they're still just talking in hypotheticals. ]

... And if the whole world falls into the abyss, aren't you going to have bigger problems?

[stirtheblood]

Eh. If you were condemned with me around I could awaken yer blood sin, and I bet you'd hold yer own just fine.

[hypotheticals are so fun]

And, maybe. I'd prob'ly survive in that kinda situation, but who knows. Either way, if we're assumin' we can go back and forth somehow I can assume I'd get outta there.

[hotnbothered]

... I suppose if we can't find a way to go back and forth, all these hypotheticals are a bit meaningless.

[stirtheblood]

...There's gotta be some kinda magic that does it, right? We got here in the first place, and people go back. There's the dream thing, too.

[hotnbothered]

The dream thing?

[stirtheblood]

People can share dreams, right? And there's a place out in the mist where you can do it deliberately. I think it's s'posed to work even for people who ain't here.

[hotnbothered]

I don't think I knew about that... Hmm, so that's ample evidence that it's possible to form a link between worlds. My biggest concern is that Blossom seems too incompetent to figure out how to do that freely, but maybe if I could learn the principles of magic at play...

[stirtheblood]

I bet you can do it.

[he says with completely unsupported confidence]

[hotnbothered]

[ Honestly with as much confidence as she's ever had about anything: ]

Well, as long as it is a skill that can be acquired.

[stirtheblood]

It's gotta be, right? No way it's just that Blossom specifically has some kinda special power.

[hotnbothered]

It might involve a power innate to wolves or demons or what have you... I suppose I'll just have to ask her, though I'm not terribly optimistic about my hopes of getting a useful answer.

[stirtheblood]

I guess...

Tch, this'd be easier if they weren't all idiots.

[hotnbothered]

Seriously! How are they all equally infuriating?!

[stirtheblood]

Prob'ly 'cause we wouldn't all be here if they weren't.

[hotnbothered]

True.

[ Angles her face away slightly. ]

... At least their stupidity hasn't been entirely without benefits. Though I would never tell them as much.

[stirtheblood]

Heh.

[leans in to rest his chin on her head]

Everything people do has both good and bad consequences. It's nice to end up on the positive side for once.

[hotnbothered]

[ Also leans into him with a huff. ]

I suppose the scale had to tip the other way eventually.

[stirtheblood]

[wraps his arms around her]

Nah, it didn't. But that makes it more excitin' that it did.

[hotnbothered]

. . .

[ Buries her face in his chest. Clinging a little. ]

[stirtheblood]

[Presses a kiss into her hair, then tilts his head back up to take a breath and open his mouth, before realizing he is not sure what he wants to say. It feels like there is something important to say here. He is experiencing an emotion. But he cannot articulate it.]

...

[hotnbothered]

[ After a few moments, glances up when she senses him on the cusp of saying something. ]

... What is it?

[stirtheblood]

I...

[struggles a few more moments, before deciding on:]

...hope we do get to keep doin' this.