[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!]

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[sediments]

Yeah, I didn't think people would be naked either. [ People just... really like being naked in this place. ] But apparently it's a custom in some places.

[ He cocks a grin when she mentions shopping for a swimsuit, glad that something simple like that would be fun for her. Bolin himself likes nice clothes, but he doesn't have the patience for shopping trips. ]

[drawmecute]

Apparently clothes are considered dirty, I don't get it most bacteria dies in hot water like this.

*Lola is a ditz, with a Cantina named after her, she knows a thing or two about how cooking works. Not how to cook, but she knows what it looks like to cook.*

Still, I could get used to all the naked people. Most people here are very good looking.

*She is looking right at you, Bolin, figure out she is hitting on you before she gets annoyed.*

[sediments]

[ Oh, she's talking about him. At least, that's the impression he gets from the way she's staring straight at him while speaking. And Bolin doesn't exactly lack confidence in his appearance, though he does get flustered when girls seem to like him (or his looks).

He takes on a considerably less smooth expression, smiling at her with all good intention. ]

It's really weird that everyone here is good looking, right? Maybe that's how they pick people.

[drawmecute]

*Lola giggles at the sudden lack of cool from Bolin. It's charming, but not exactly her speed. She liked confidence, but she could just enjoy this. Of course... what he said had her little mind spinning in a new direction.*

I guess... it would explain how I ended up here.

[sediments]

[ Somehow, that response doesn't catch Bolin by surprise. She's already proven to him that she's fairly confident, comfortable in her skin and looks. It's all good news to Bolin, it makes him happy to see others content. ]

I guess so. [ He offers back with a small smile, sinking further into the water and sighing contently. ] Were you a fighter or anything where you come from?

[drawmecute]

No...

*Lola's confidence seemed to falter at this line of talk. No longer drinking in the pretty or even making eye contact. Cause, she loud, not strong. Without the advantage of Mana here, there isn't much she can do.*

There's not a lot of fighting where I'm from. And if there is, it isn't for someone like me. It's for boys, and girls who can't get a boy to fight for them. And I guess lesbians.

*She's also not very politically correct.*

[sediments]

[ That sort of world doesn't make a lot of sense to Bolin, who's best friends with Asami - someone elegenat and beautiful, intelligent and upper class, and still incredibly deadly in a fight. But still, it's not so bad to imagine a world where people don't need to fight.

Even if it would be weird. ]

So I'm guessing girls don't do much of the fighting. [ He can sort of see the conventional idea she's trying to convey, where men are warriors and girls stay at home. ] I guess it must suck to have to start from scratch then...

[drawmecute]

*See this is how Lola feels about worlds with magic and constant war and conflict about everything and killer death dragon eyes. So everyone's weird is someone's normal.*

Well, nobody does a lot of fighting. There are gangs, but the police keep them from hassling good neighborhoods. And crime but they don't show up everywhere in the city. Only a handful of kids at my school got into fights.

So... this is all really new, having to kill people. Breaking the wings of dragons... it's only fun when I don't think about what I'm doing.

[sediments]

[ Her words are enough to get Bolin to sober up. He's so used to fighting that moving from one fight to another isn't a big deal for him; he can't really imagine what kind of shock Lola must be going through, having been taken from a place of peace to situations where she's faced with dead bodies.

Other than that it must really suck. ]

I don't blame you. [ Is the smartest thing that he can offer. Lola has more confidence to her than Sakura, but even Sakura has come from a time of war. ]

I mean, even people used to fighting probably try not to think about it too much.

[ Bolin, as much as he doesn't enjoy killing dragons, can still do it. But if he's ever in a position where he needs to kill a human, he's not sure how he'll cope with it. ]

[drawmecute]

*Shock happens, but at the same time Lola is very adaptive if she has someone telling her to do things. She is very easy to maneuver that way. Plus it helped the last time she killed people they fell in the ocean so she didn't have to deal with that many bodies. And the ones that were there weren't her's to deal with.*

What's it like... in places which are like this?

Always scary and full of violence?

*Not that she wanted an answer, but it seemed like the right thing to ask to better get an idea of what else she can do but pretend it isn't real.*

[sediments]

Uh.

[ Lola sounds fairly uncertain and worried, and it makes Bolin frown to see that kind of smallness in a girl that had been at such ease before. He's not sure whether it's better or worse that she's had a peaceful life until now. On one hand, it gave her respite from the struggles or war, but on the other it couldn't prepare her for this.

He rubs the back of his neck, honest when he replies. ]

Honestly, it's not that scary. Because you're always in one fight or the other... you just get used to it. [ Which means that Bolin isn't scared to be part of this war, even though he should be, stripped of his powers. ] I mean, your entire life you train by fighting all the time, so you're a lot more equipped to deal with the constant violence.

[drawmecute]

Oh. So... with enough time it'll stop being scary?

*Which didn't seem that bad to her. Not being scared eventually. Okay the constant fighting to survive bit didn't seem like a good use of her time. But she didn't have any ability to keep up with the Kardashians here, so she had free time.*

But... if you fight all the time, when do you have time for fun? Like pizza, and kissing? Not in that order.