hotel: aikawa

[shaft]

our lizard...!!

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[decaptych]

Uh... I met him, I think it's like...

[ ...Ponders this. ]

...A lot's happened, it's a few years. I haven't seen him for like, three years though -- I just recently met back up with him.

[shaft]

You must be relieved.

[ were you a lizard for those three years aikawa ]

[decaptych]

[ Yes he was. ]

Yeah, I am -- 'course! He's my buddy and we kinda, didn't leave off on the best note -- I mean -- we're fine now! But it's -- you know, nevermind.

You got a buddy? Guessing you don't do partners in your world.

[shaft]

I'm not sure what you mean by partner? Like... a spouse?

[decaptych]

[ He cOUGhS out a bunch of flower petals suddenly. ]

No! Noooooo. No. We are not married.

A partnership is like -- well, we're not ''''official'''' [ he does airquotes ] partners anyway 'cause we never did the contract stuff, but it's a thing sorcerers do. Contract up with another sorcerer, and you know, now you've got each other's backs.

[shaft]

[ stares at him ]

Why aren't you official?

[decaptych]

'Cause only the cool guys get invited to Blue Night.

[ Thumbs up at him. ]

[shaft]

So you can only get married if you're cool?

[decaptych]

It's not marriage, I told you. If you wanna get married you can probably just get married.

[shaft]

Right, sorry. Only cool sorcerers can have partners?

[decaptych]

I guess so. I mean, it's something hosted by En, the biggest sorcerer dude in my world, and you gotta be on his list to get in I guess. Our magic's too shit for that kind of deal.

We don't really care about it though. We're partners, even without a dumb contract.

[shaft]

[ aw that's soft ]

I'm glad you have each other. You must be anxious to get back to him.

[decaptych]

[ Haha................... hehe? ]

...

Yeah.

[shaft]

...

Unless...?

[decaptych]

[ Unless...? ]

No, yeah. That'd be nice.

We just had a fight and he fucked off, and then I got brought over, so...

[shaft]

Oh.

You get angry?

[decaptych]

Nah, I don't.

[shaft]

So he got angry?

[decaptych]

Yeah.

[shaft]

That sucks. [ ... ] What did you fight about?

[decaptych]

Just...

...stuff.

[ Help. To be fair this is also said somewhat stupidly like he also doesn't know what to do. ]

[shaft]

Was it about your well-being?

[ Claude will not give good advice. ]

[decaptych]

Wow, what's that supposed to mean?

But nah. It was some other personal stuff. It's a long story.

[shaft]

It seemed like a good guess.

I won't pry too much. Hopefully you'll be able to reconcile easily.

[decaptych]

... Yeah.

I hope so too.

[ As bubbly as he may be, he really does sound genuinely tired and defeated under there for once. But with every vibe of 'anyway': ]

Go shower and get the dirt off of you, smelly.