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Camp Fire
"'Once my space station comes online'," Bel repeated back to him seriously, despite a somewhat incredulous inflection. She wondered if Candon considered how he was explaining his venture. She nodded back, "It sounds like things are proceeding at least. Spending money to make money, I think it was once put to me."
After considering things for a moment, Mehitabel cleared her throat, "You know, Toyoe-heisho, Ishii-hei, and I visited an interesting frontier world over our semi-enforced leave..."
That train of thought slammed straight into a wrong-set switched, leaped the tracks, and demolished a string of standing freight cars when her name was put forward for a dare from Wazu. Part of her wanted to cry out in objection, or at least beg the excuse that as turn-keeper her position was immune from competition. She didn't. Mehitabel just looked surprised, control relaxed enough by her rapid beer consumption for her wings to slap Candon in the face as they defensively spread out to increase the size of her profile.
Camp Fire
"I'll help out with this part of the operation" she said, her red eyes glancing at the blond engineer, "If I can be up for the next round?" she asked him with a sly smile crossing her lips.
Camp Fire
"I wish there was some sort of ejection system for social situations..." she muttered as the truth or dare degenerated into 'everyone likes lewd dares'... Things were rapidly coming to a head, one way or the other, and the Elysian was wondering whether or not Howard-heisho would survive the night in one piece. Probably. Toyoe-heisho would probably at least leave his body intact. It was a minute of gently, feathery stroking across Candon's face before Mehitabel realized they weren't hitting a tree, or the bar, or possibly a hovering mishu, but instead Suites-heisho's face.
She jerked them in suddenly, though they didn't nest in comfortably against her back like usual. The clerk looked deeply disturbed, too much to rest them easily, "Oh fuck. I am sorry, Suites-heisho! That's an, ah, defensive reflex, when Freyja-san shouted my name earlier, I-"
"-just needed a wingman?" he joked.
Candon couldn’t help but start laughing, despite it being socially odd to laugh at one's own joke. Maybe it was just the alcohol but something about being stuck under her wing was striking him as funny. Oddly enough, it was actually the first time he'd ever felt what feathers feel like.
"I'm surprised you don't have trouble being couped up on the ship."
"Cooped. Hah-hah," Mehitabel replied, drolly tapping him on the back of the head again, this time intentionally. Her expression shifted between confusion and amusement, eyes focusing and unfocusing along with it as her brain caught up to the situation again. Those were jokes. Awful jokes, but jokes nonetheless!
"I am capable of flight, but I can't really fly. Didn't grow up with it, didn't have parents that could fly," she says, first in Seraphim, then again in Yamataigo, continuing to blunder onward, "Honestly, it feels wonderfully natural but I never do. Fly, you know. Other then when its the late shift and I float around in the zero-g passage before bed."
Camp Fire
Natsumi smiled at Jax. "We're off duty, no need to salute me" she said to the engineer and took his hand, guiding it away from his temple and down, so he could use it to retain his modesty if he so wished.
"I do like the Z-G passages," he agreed. He found the absence of gravity relaxing. It was the 'flightless bird' concept he found rather odd. With an ideal body, with the supposed defects corrected, it was a foreign idea to him.
"Hey, why not try flying tonight? Or gliding, at least? I can fly you up and- well… drop you."
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