oh, no. shouxue freezes at being caught, but she loves food too much to stop. she makes an attempt at sounding Proper Consort and not a teenager who just wants some good food. ]
If it tastes as good as it smells, I won't voice any dissatisfaction.
If Luke notices her awkwardly freezing, he doesn't comment on it; he just wanders on ahead, looking around for the source of the nice smell.]
It can't be worse than the rations they served us earlier. [Which actually weren't all that bad, in his opinion, but he expected a lot worse from space food.] But anyone who can cook is pretty impressive, to me.
she schools her face to some kind of neutrality. ]
I do not understand how they went from serving us food with bold and strange flavors to none. There is little consistency. [ she doesn't know the modern perception of space food being bad. ] It is an art to make delicious food, and I would be a fool if I didn't appreciate it.
[THERE SHE GOES. He'd be a little more overprotective about trying random food laying around, but he's pretty sure it was made by one of them, so it's probably fine.
[Judging by the new card preview I just saw he is definitely a weirdo but not in this way, at least.]
Good! That'll make it a little easier to be here. [He's not a foodie but even he doesn't want to live off of astronaut food...] Do you mind if I try a little too?
[I knew this card existed but I genuinely had no idea it was coming to global anytime soon. Hateful.
But he'll take it!! It would be so funny if he just picked it up and walked off but he's way too nice for that, tragic. He just helps himself to a small bite!]
I wonder who did? I'm surprised they didn't leave a note or anything.
[It's fine I need all the help I can get to make him seem like the otome love interest he's supposed to be... if I have to defeat my unshippability by putting him in garters I will]
That's putting a lot of faith in people to listen. [Shouxue has never worked customer service, apparently]
[Hey Shouxue, ever want to be James Bond? Congratulations, now's your chance! (Isn't this guy supposed to be a detective? Oops.)
Luke himself is nowhere to be seen when Shouxue enters the void; she won't realize who this memory belongs to until she's freed of it. For now, all she knows, very suddenly, is her new identity: She is a highly skilled, specialized agent, and she is on the trail of a very dangerous criminal. The moon hangs in the sky overhead, and the forest around her is lush with wildlife. In the distance, to one side, she can see a clearing with a makeshift camp; straight ahead is a dark cave. Which way does she go?]
[ luke is so many things, but healthy, happy, and alive are none of them.
as a now highly skilled and specialized agent, she goes to scope out the dark cave first. she wants to see if she if there isn't anything or anyone hiding in it. ]
She makes the right choice! As she approaches the cave, she'll notice light footprints in the damp earth; she knows that they belong to the person she's seeking. A small stream trickles into the cave, coated in fluorescent algae--the glow casts an eerie blue light on the cavern. The water flows into a deeper, broader pool, and a dark shape moves along the far end: A person. There is something frantic about their movements, and light splashing sounds echo throughout, the noise amplified within the space.
(Something is wrong. Something is missing from this scene. What is it...? Shouxue doesn't know. She is focused on her target.)
[ HE IS ON THE MINGLE LYING ABOUT HOW HE'LL USE THE MESSAGING SYSTEM HE HELPED SET UP
if she doesn't something is missing, she can't look for it. if she's focused on finding a person she's seeking, she carefully approaches that dark shape, keeping to the darkness as much as possible.
is this person running? she won't run yet as long as she can hear the splashing from the person. ]
[He will use it if he has to... and that doesn't mean he isn't happy
The feeling of something off lingers around her, but it's too light to be distracting. The person isn't running--they're searching, frantically, for something in the water. As she gets closer, she can hear that it's a man's voice; he's talking to himself as he digs around, growing increasingly more frantic.]
Where is it?! She told me it was here--!
[Shouxue moves in the darkness--but as she does, she feels a pull, guiding her closer to the stranger. Even if she tries to stop, her feet move her forward--behind her, the entrance to the cave grows fuzzy around the edges, dreamlike. Between one breath and the next, a dagger appears in Shouxue's hand.
The man hasn't noticed her yet, but he will soon. Does she fight the pull, or follow it to her quarry?]
[ ok..... mr can i have vash's messages instead.... sure
is she here to murder someone? threaten someone? this is a bit alarming to her after she just died for being overly violent. the dagger against her palm makes her pause for a second.
it makes her question what's right and what isn't.
she fights the pull, if only to see if this man says anything else about what he's trying to find. ]
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