[Open] It's getting hot in here

[showsnopiety]

Who: Caren and anyone visiting the hot springs!
When: Post dungeon, could be right after fail/success, could be days after
Where: Hot Springs of course
What: There's a hot springs, so now there's a hot springs episode.
Rating: Could be a p-13 and beyond because some people are only wearing towels in this place.





[Win or fail, everyone needed a reason and a way to relax. With the fall of the towers, there was all sorts of good things to come from it. Some would say it was the birds; and others would say it was the hot springs.

The large, large pools of heated water. Sure, they could be used as a way to get all steamed up (or even steam punk) but after all that hard work, everyone deserves a break!

Bring your swimsuits, your towels, your drinks and snacks-who knows, you should be able to find them in the bazaars, or even on Airy. It's time to soak in the heat!]

Comments

[couldntpullthetrigger]

Probably not.

[That's so... Matter-of-fact. Especially for her. And she's admitting to it, too, which might be odd in its own right.]

But... yanno. Whatever. I guess that's what I get for falling and hitting my head. That and this headache that hasn't gone away since then.

[seventhgen]

[Uh, yes. This is very much more forthright than Aigis has come to expect of Yukari.] Oh no! I didn't realize you'd hurt yourself! Is there anything I can get? Perhaps a doctor, or a healer?

[couldntpullthetrigger]

... Yeah, look, Aigis, I shouldn't even be alive right now, let alone hanging out in a hot spring, so. No, I don't think anything'll help, really.

Pretty sure no one can fix my problems.

[Okay, so... some part of her stubborn pride still exists in there, behind whatever apathetic veneer's been painted over it.]

So, I'll just deal.

[seventhgen]

You-- [Aigis' eyes go wide.] --Yukari-san! What happened? Are you all right? [Aigis, you already asked that.] I... [Now she really doesn't know what to say. Had another member of SEES died on her watch?]

[couldntpullthetrigger]

Something between the stupid bird-human-things on those towers, the wind betraying me, and I guess things like to try to attack Kings randomly, but I'm pretty sure you don't survive falling whatever many hundred meters that was to the ground and landing on your head.

At least, I should probably be in the hospital with a totally busted skull and spine, but no. I'm sitting here, after I just kinda woke up outside the door.

... and all I got was this stupid headache.

[But rather than sounding angry, she almost sounds like a bored professor giving an unamusing lecture in a hall.]

[seventhgen]

[Aigis doesn't know how to react to this. It's unbelievable to process, talking with someone about their own death. Especially someone who's not Minato. She's quiet.]

...I'm sorry to hear that.

--I don't know what to say, Yukari-san. That must have been terrible.

[couldntpullthetrigger]

Can't really say I remember much of it. I was there, I was attacked, I was falling... I remember thinking how stupid it was... and then it all kinda went black, and I woke up outside the door.

[Shrug. Again, she's rather nonchalant about the whole thing. She probably should be sad, or freaked out, or something, but it sounds like she doesn't even have the energy to.]

[seventhgen]

I see...

I-I'm sorry, Yukari-san, I don't know what to say. What should I do to help you?

[couldntpullthetrigger]

Why do you think you need to help?

It's waaaay too late to do anything now. Can't heal someone if they're dead. Can't help 'em if it's too late. But I guess that rule doesn't apply here.

Guess you can go and be glad that you're not going to a funeral instead of a hot spring? [EPIC. SHRUG.]

[seventhgen]

Because... you are my friend, Yukari-san.

If you are hurting, or upset, I would like to try and do what I can to alleviate that pain.

[couldntpullthetrigger]

... Can't say I am, I guess outside of this headache.

Actually, I don't feel much of anything at all.

It's... kinda nice. Real quiet. Like... the whole world could pass right on by and it wouldn't even matter. [And as much as she understands that this sort of thinking and speaking is weird for her, some part of her does like the quietude. She likes the relief from the storm of emotions that's always kind of been there. She doesn't have to care... she doesn't have to do anything. She can just... rest.]

[seventhgen]

I see... [She doesn't.] Would you like me to leave you alone, then?

[couldntpullthetrigger]

You can do whatever you want.

[Being so dismissive is also entirely not like Yukari, but c'est la vie at the moment, apparently.]

I'm probably not gonna be a good conversationalist at the moment, though. I'd say it's cuz I've got a lot on my mind... but I guess it's more the opposite, actually.

[seventhgen]

All right. [Aigis stands there for a moment. What should she do? What's right to do?] So then... my presence here is neither a positive nor a negative as to your mood?

[couldntpullthetrigger]

Yep, that seems about right. I'm not gonna like... chase you away or anything, but I dunno what to talk about, either. [And she's usually a fount for things like that.] So I guess if you don't mind long, awkward silences, you could probably stick around.