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?]

Comments

[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?

[survivaltricks]

Oh no. Of course I give zero shits about Shujin.

[rolling onto his stomach on the inner tube, resting his chin against his folded hands]

But it's literally the only place I could be a trendsetter and I definitely wasn't one there.

[BEING A PHANTOM THIEF AND CAUSING A PUBLIC STIR DOESN'T COUNT AS TRENDSETTING. . .]

[literal_trainwreck]

Perhaps we have a different concept of what counts as trendsetting.

[BECAUSE IT ABSOLUTELY DOES]

At any rate, I'm going to go clean up. Are you staying out here?

[survivaltricks]

[that's not setting a trend that's just being a public menace!!]

[a moment of consideration, before he shrugs, rolls off the inner tube, and climbs out of the water]

Nah, I'll come with you. There's water in my ears.

[literal_trainwreck]

[waits for him]

I don't know that taking a bath will help that. But at least that water is clean.

[survivaltricks]

And warm.

[wrings out his damp clothing]

From one body of water to another. . . I think we're turning into fish.

[literal_trainwreck]

Better a fish than a sheep.

[survivaltricks]

Baaaaaaaa.

[why is his sense of humor like this]

[literal_trainwreck]

Keep that up and you'll get sheared.

[survivaltricks]

[OH NO]

[what has Loki started]

Not if I pull the wool over their eyes first.