double your live, double your fun

[unbr8kable]

Who: Everyone
Where: Just outside the hotel
When: Day 30, early morning

[There're a table and some chairs set up outside of the front entrance. Hurricane and Nemesis are seated there like those kids looking for passers-by to sign their petitions or sponsor animals. A modest sign in front says "Free Cheer"]

Buttpats! Get'cher buttpats here!

Pep talks, dude, don't give people the wrong idea.

It's not for us to say what motivates people. I mean, in this case it kind of literally is, but whatever.

Anyway, stop on by and gimme a couple of words. Whatever you pick, I’ll do the whole motivational speech thing about it.

And I swear to help out, or if there's something else you need, I guess. Either way, points.

[The app indicates this is a double live.]

Comments

[crossmyheartandhope]

No problem, dude. Guess we are kind of in the way, huh?

[forgottenmercy]

Oh, ah, no, I should have been paying more attention.

[crossmyheartandhope]

Nah. I mean, we're the ones who stuck a table here, right?

[forgottenmercy]

It was, ah, avoidable.

[crossmyheartandhope]

We'll go farther to the side next time, though. Kay?

[forgottenmercy]

And I'll, ah, try not to be so clumsy.

[crossmyheartandhope]

It's cool, dude. No worries.

[forgottenmercy]

It's, still, ah, something for me to work on. [tries not to yawn.]

[crossmyheartandhope]

...tired? It is kinda early, huh?

[forgottenmercy]

I, ah, don't like getting up in the mornings...

[crossmyheartandhope]

How come?

[forgottenmercy]

I don't, ah, know. I'm just a, ah, night person, I guess.

[crossmyheartandhope]

Yeah, fair enough. Nights are pretty nice, especially with the weather lately.

[forgottenmercy]

They are, ah, a lot nicer than mornings. But if I, ah, want to go to the onsen, I have to get up early.

[crossmyheartandhope]

Ah, yeah. It's pretty far, right?

[Pauses. Then:]

I'm heading out there after this, and I got a motorcycle. I could give you a ride? Cuts the commute time.

[forgottenmercy]

[...thinking of politely refusing but remembers that it's HSS's Live to help people.] If it's, ah, not too much trouble. Though I've, ah, never ridden anything like it before.

[crossmyheartandhope]

It's cool. I can give you a quick crash course. Mostly it's, "Hold on tight and let me know if you need to stop."

I'm gonna be going pretty slow, anyway.

[forgottenmercy]

My, ah, skirt won't get in the way? [smoothing down his frilly skirts.]

[crossmyheartandhope]

...that I don't know.

I guess you could tuck it up under you?

[forgottenmercy]

I could, ah, try. If I get hurt, I can, ah, fix it, but I don't really want to get you hurt.

[crossmyheartandhope]

I got a power that'll help if I eat asphalt. It would really suck if you got hurt, though.

...you could borrow some pants?

[forgottenmercy]

[kind of shrugging it off] It might, ah, hurt, but I can heal it.

...most of my unit, ah, doesn't really have pants either.

[crossmyheartandhope]

Well, yeah. But even if you heal right away, you still got hurt. That sucks, dude.

...that does kinda make it hard. Uh. You could borrow my pants?

[forgottenmercy]

It'll, ah, be okay.

Hmm. [eyes him. they're almost the same height but Persephone is very, very slight.] ...maybe if, ah, I take my petticoat and underskirts off, that might also help?

[crossmyheartandhope]

I mean, it's worth a try.