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[planetdialup]

Hey Sym? You've got some time to come over to my cabin?

I'd like to talk to you about something.

Re: voice

[agardener]

[It sounds serious, so he knocks on her door a few moments later.]

Re: voice

[planetdialup]

Sym, you're quick as always.

[She opens the door with a smile. She smells of the wind, of flowers and soft earth. But not of the Barge, as she gently pulls him inside.]

Thanks for coming.

Re: voice

[agardener]

[He comes inside, without Coral, and closes the door behind him. He notices the strange air about her, but chooses not to speculate.]

I was afraid something was wrong.

Re: voice

[planetdialup]

No, not...wrong. But things have changed for me.

I went back home for a little while to...break things off with Zack.

After Mistletoe time

[planetdialup]

"Sym? Thanks for having me over."

She liked being over at his place, and had wanted to just cuddle with him but- well. That could be after. Hopefully.

Her insides were squirming.

"But um- I have some things I'd like to talk to you about."

Re: After Mistletoe time

[agardener]

He's brought food for her, made a few spring rolls from the food in his room and the greenhouse, but he can tell something's off.

So when she brings it up, he smiles encouragingly.

"Tell me."

Re: After Mistletoe time

[planetdialup]

He was always so considerate. It just made it so obvious she was a terrible girlfriend.

She fussed with her hands for a few moments, anxious.

"Remember the other day, with the mistletoe? Well...Armand came up to me and kissed me. And I didn't resist or anything. We even made out." She worried at her hands. "It was like no time passed since we last slept together."

Re: After Mistletoe time

[agardener]

There is a lot of information that Sym processes in a short amount of time. "That is the one you were intimate with to sleep, and you didn't enjoy the way it made you feel after?"

Just so he has it all clear.

Re: After Mistletoe time

[planetdialup]

She nodded. "He's the one who had been draining me to sleep. And it had become sexual. He's my first sexual experience."

She bit her lip. "I mean he...he was very skilled, knew what he was doing. This could have gotten sexual again." Her voice became small. "He did...check. If I wanted that. By touching my thigh."

Spam

[anashthetic]

The night of a certain network message, after it goes up, there's a knock on Sym's cabin door. On the other side is Ashton, arms folded across their chest and an almost imperious look of Are You Fucking Kidding Me on their face, regal in their frustration.

They love Aerith. They are not going to go yell at Aerith less than 24 hours into her toll about not protecting herself properly, because Aerith is one of those people who treats tolling like an actual inconvenience even after the first 36 hours for some reason (??? it's just pain.), and also she's in Vincent's rooms and they... really... would prefer not to deal with his impossible-to-read stare.

So going to bitch to Sym seems perfectly reasonable: if they're actually being an idiot, he doesn't like them enough to entertain that. Probably.

Re: Spam

[agardener]

[The door opens into Sym's cavernous cabin. The rock walls are lined with bioluminescent mushrooms and there are regular Earth mushrooms in dirt piles neatly arranged along the path. Sym stands in the relative darkness, his expression pleasant but unreadable.]

Hello, Ashton. Come inside.

I assume this is about Aerith.

Re: Spam

[anashthetic]

Were it anything else I would've called ahead.

[They step inside, dropping one arm from its position to trail their fingers along the wall.]

Re: Spam

[agardener]

[He steps back, leading the way down to the cavern.]

Come. We can speak in Aerith's room.

[The cave opens, revealing a large console, a green vat with a glass opening, and the pink, tentacled vriki sitting on a chair made of mushrooms and crystals. There's a door to the side and inside leads to an apartment complete with a bedroom, a bathroom, and a little kitchen area.]

Re: Spam

[anashthetic]

[It's not sufficiently distracting to distract her from her upset, but she is definitely intrigued by everything in the main room. When they move to Aerith's room she hops up on a counter in the kitchen area to sit.]

--If she doesn't get better at remembering to protect herself, next time she dies it'll be because I'm going to kill her, I swear.

[Externally their shape is 100% human, but this is a cat's tail-lashing irritation through and through.]

Retrospect Flood

[getfeldsparred]

Feldspar comes into consciousness standing in the middle of an unfamiliar hallway, the hatchling barely the height of a human thigh and wheezing from the rising panic. They always were a brave thing little, but that was with the whole of Timber Hearth acting as a safety net behind them. They blink rapidly and start to wander slowly, looking for Gneiss or old Tektite to soothe their growing anxiety.

Re: Retrospect Flood

[agardener]

"Oh there you are, pebble," Sym says as he takes the stairs down. "I've been looking for you. Don't be afraid. This is a ship full of aliens, but you'll be home soon."

Re: Retrospect Flood

[getfeldsparred]

The gentle voice and familiar endearment is enough to keep Feldspar from cowering as the alien approaches them, but their eyes are wide from confusion and fear. “I was looking for Gneiss,” they say, hands drawn up to their chest, “they had fish and, and, and marchmellows and I was gonna go with them.”

They look around again as though the older Hearthian might still step out from a corner.

Re: Retrospect Flood

[agardener]

"Ah, Gneiss. They will be back shortly, but I can help you find some marshmallows and fish. What do you say?" he asks, kneeling down to be more at their level.

Re: Retrospect Flood

[getfeldsparred]

That seems to be good enough for the hatchling, who gives another few thoughtful blinks of their big eyes and then nod slowly. They know Gneiss, who is the most adult of all the adults, and so they can’t be all that bad.

“You are an alien?”

After the warden about Trevor post

[planetdialup]

Hey Sym.

You busy? I'd like to see you.

Re: After the warden about Trevor post

[agardener]

You never have to ask. I'm in the Greenhouse.

Re: After the warden about Trevor post

[planetdialup]

Well, you might be busy!

Coming!

[She thought he might be, but she wanted to be sure. He was likely seeing about the bees and their replacement after all.

She came up to join him for whatever he was doing though, leaning against him if given the chance.]

Re: After the warden about Trevor post

[agardener]

[He is bent over a few holes in the ground of his own making, pouring little bugs inside of it.]

They are your namesake. The sugarbug. [He holds one up for her. It looks a little like an ant, but it doesn't bite. He offers it to her.]

Re: After the warden about Trevor post

[planetdialup]

Oh, you got them?

[She's surprised, and takes the offer, looking at the small bug.]

I didn't think I would see one until we visited. Huh.