a ding dang mingle

[endsjustified]

WHO: anyone
WHERE: anywhere
WHEN: Day 9, morning through to late afternoon

[well there's still new landmarks to explore, new teammates (and new ragged individuals) to meet. occasional gunfire's been resounding through the woods sometimes, scaring birds up into the air and sending wandering pygmidillos in the meadow askitter.

what are you up to this fine day?]

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[survivaltricks]

[post-Shepherd meeting, Lupin is also floating on an inner tube!!]

[. . . he is also fast asleep. this seems dangerous]

[literal_trainwreck]

[hmmmmmm. Odin gave him a great idea about making waves to knock people over, but how?]

[as he considers, he will watch Lupin sleep in an absolutely-not-creepy way]

[survivaltricks]

[wow!! why would you dare disrupt this peaceful scene!!]

[he's gonna keep sleeping and floating tho. he's kind of cute like this]

[literal_trainwreck]

[he's not cute!! he's a pain in the ass who makes everything difficult and how dare he doze off like unwinding is a thing you can just do. Loki will memorize every curve of his sleeping face—]

[Wait. No. That's not right. Loki will find some leverage to flip his tube. Maybe a big stick. Surely they will pass by a big stick eventually...]




[*yaaaaawn*]

[survivaltricks]

[insert that kate beaton nemesis comic here]

[what are the chances they pass a big stick before loki realizes that dozing off and unwinding is, in fact, a thing people can do and thus joins lupin in dangerous sleeping-in-an-inner-tube land]

[literal_trainwreck]

[yeah no he's already dozed off]

[survivaltricks]

[see!! anyone can do relaxation!!]

[a thread of just sleeping is boring tho. after a good amount of doze time for them both, lupin twists in just the wrong manner in his sleep and upends himself into the lazy river]

[cue a very loud series of splashes and sputters and yells!!]

[literal_trainwreck]

[alarming!! enough to jolt Loki out of his slumber. In the time he's been snoozing, he has completely forgotten where he is, and thus when he tries to jolt upright and figure out what's going on, he too falls directly into the river]

[survivaltricks]

[THIS IS WHY YOU DON'T NAP IN THE LAZY RIVER FOOLISH BOYS]

[. . . at least the river is shallow enough to stand in, and Lupin resurfaces quickly— just in time to see Loki take a bath next]

[. . .]

[when Loki resurfaces, he is snickering]

[literal_trainwreck]

[angry splashing!!]

[and despite the obvious fact that Lupin did not do this:]

What did you do!?

1/2

[survivaltricks]

Psychic powers.

[survivaltricks]

Kidding. Obviously, I didn't do anything. You fell on your own.

[literal_trainwreck]

[grumble]

Or someone made a wave in the river...

[looking around for nonexistent culprits]

[survivaltricks]

[hope back into his inner tube. he doesn't seem to mind that he is now soaked]

You're so paranoid.

[literal_trainwreck]

Odin warned me that might... happen...

[a beat as it dawns on him only now that maybe Odin was teasing over something he himself might do]

[survivaltricks]

[oh my GOD. he can read that expression like a book, and in response, he just ducks his head and laughs into his hand]

[LOKI. . .]

[literal_trainwreck]

Ugh. This is what I get for trying to relax.

[wading his way out of the water]

[survivaltricks]

[steering his inner tube towards the edge of the river, but he isn't getting out]

Aw. Don't be like that. How long have you been here, anyway?

[literal_trainwreck]

...I'm not sure. Maybe an hour?

[survivaltricks]

That sounds like plenty of time to relax to me.

[watching him thoughtfully]

You look a little better, too.

[literal_trainwreck]

That's because I fell asleep.

[survivaltricks]

[a hum]

It seems like a popular spot for napping today.

[literal_trainwreck]

You're a trendsetter like always.

[survivaltricks]

"Like always?" You don't know what my life was like at Shujin if you think that.

[literal_trainwreck]

Shujin? Are you telling me you actually give a shit about Shujin? The same pissant high schoolers who spent all their time talking about the Phantom Thieves online?