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TAAKO

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[scholiast]

(Thankfully she's feeling more than seeing; she gets brief flashes of his wardrobe change but nothing incriminating. And like him, she takes the cab option, opting to preserve her spell slots considering she's about to waste them all in what will likely be one go.

When Taako arrives he'll find her standing there, one hand in her pocket, the other around the neck of a bottle of Pisco. She can't actually remember where she got this. It might have come from a work thing? It doesn't matter, it'll do the job nicely.)

Hey.

(She turns toward the gate at he approaches, because it'll keep her from going in for a welcome hug.) Good to go?

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[His own insight into Lucretia comes and goes and honestly, he's not sure if the knowledge she just avoided the impulse for a hug is coming directly from her or just his own understanding of how she works.]

I'm always good to go.

[It's a hesitant thing, but once he's made his way over, Taako reaches out to take her hand.]

[scholiast]

Terrific. (She glances down when he takes her hand, and smiles briefly, giving it a light squeeze.)

Has this been happening with anybody else, by the way? Or just me?

(Both of her hands are full so she opens the gate with magic, leading the way through. The woods are quiet. It's nice, actually. With Taako as close as she is maybe it's helping to dim the effect of feeling his thoughts. It feels more like a dull buzz in her mind, something she can't ignore but can get used to.)

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[There's a little bit of nostalgia in this, if he stops thinking about Rin for a second they could almost be back in the cycles, taking a trip through some forested planet because Lucretia wants to draw a cool bird she saw.]

Uh, do you know Finn? Kinda young, nice but like weirdly intense about the most random shit? He's been in my head or whatever you want to call it.

[scholiast]

(Hey, if a cool bird suddenly pops out you know she'll bust out her stuff.)

Yeah, I do. We haven't talked a lot, but I get the impression that he's kind. Has he tried to cheer you up too in that case?

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I mean, he texted me at like two in the morning to tell me he was outside my window, so I guess.

[That's what he meant about Finn being kind of intense about the weirdest things.]

[scholiast]

(She laughs pretty hard at that. It's a good mental image.)

Oh, boy. So when you said intense you meant it, huh. How did that go down?

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Well, better than the time he texted me at two am to say he was gonna kill me.

[So there's that.]

[scholiast]

Finn did that?

(Lucretia looks very dismayed at this news!)

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[Taako nods, a little solemn, but he can only keep up the pretense for a few seconds.]

I told him he should change his name to Dixie Normous, took him a couple days to get it but so fucking worth it once he did.

[scholiast]

(oh goddamnit)

Stop. (She lets go of his hand, but only so she can give him a playful shove,) you're terrible. I'm glad he told you that, I hope it hurt your feelings.

(She's kinda laughing though, because it is actually pretty funny. Dixie Normous.)

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[It's so normal, to laugh about a stupid dick joke with Lucretia.]

Why would it hurt my feelings, that's like-- it's the best response I coulda got?

[scholiast]

Oh, it's very good.

(Poor Finn. She's definitely going to bring this up to him in future though. And hey, while they're sharing funny jokes and stuff; she doesn't mind sharing this small embarrassment with Taako.)

Speaking of pranks: Loki briefly convinced me he could talk to crystals last week.

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[Without missing a beat:]

Uh, he can talk to crystals.

[He's 99.9% sure that Lucretia won't buy it, but he has to try.]

[scholiast]

(She pauses for a moment, just a moment but that's probably enough for Taako.)

For fuck's sake, the pair of you.

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[More than enough.]

We're a good team, huh?

[And they didn't even have to plan it.]

[scholiast]

You're dirtbags, is what you are.

(They've reached a little clearing, and Lucretia stops, stopping to drop the bottle down gently against the grass. She wants to make a joke about laying down house rules, that the spells should go at the things around them and not at each other, but the words die in the back of her throat before she can speak them.

Probably just as well. She doesn't want to revist the mental image of Taako crying, trapped in her shields. Lucretia clears her throat.)

This seems innocuous enough.

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[Between the walk and the jokes, that undercurrent of frustration that he'd been feeling has eased enough that when the bottle drops, Taako sits down beside it.]

Can we just like chill? Just for a bit?

[He is going to do the drinking part of his outing, though.]

[scholiast]

'Course.

(The little clearing is actually very picturesque, and Lucretia's unsurprisingly remorse to blow any part of it up, so. Sitting is fine. She sits down next to him and reaches for the bottle, uncapping it and offering him the first sip. 'Tis only polite.)

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[Taako has a decent sized sip before handing it back to Lucretia.]

Fuck, I shoulda brought weed.

[A tragedy.]

Or one of the fucking dozen potions Rin left me, one of 'em has to be good for this shit.

[There's the 'chill out' one that he was given for Hygge, but that's a bit more special.]

[scholiast]

I didn't know you ever stopped carrying it on you.

(She has a sip too, then digs the bottle back into the ground so it stays upright between the two of them. Is it good that they've made it into Rin territory already, and with zero yelling? She can't tell.)

What other kinds did you get?

(Yes, she's already experienced the infamous chill potion.)

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Gave my last joint to Poe, he's gonna get Finn and Rey to try it.

[It's well worth sacrificing the last bit of weed he had (at least until he can buy some more).]

Couple healing ones, purification, some skincare. Pretty glad he didn't toss any actual poison in there, I guess he knew better.

[He can't remember if he ever told Lucretia the whole specifics around Rin seeing him with the ghosts but - it doesn't matter now.]

[scholiast]

You must introduce me to Poe so I can ask him exactly how that goes down.

(Lucretia has no idea they're all from the same place; she simply thinks it's a very odd little group.)

Oh. Good. (She wasn't aware that Rin knew about that, but Taako's just alluded to as much. Lucretia thinks she's underestimated how close they really were.)

I'm sorry, Taako.

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[Taako nods a confirmation that he'll make sure she knows how it goes, one way or another. But while he's trying to keep this chill and easy, he can't help but somber up a little now.

It would be easy to read something into what she's saying, try to make it out to be a jab at him or Rin, but he doesn't want to pick a fight right now. He just wants to take his friend at face value.]

I mean... I get it, you know? It just sucks, I miss him. Sif's gone, too. I don't-- did you know her? She was really cool.

[And he misses her as well, even if it's different.]

[scholiast]

Yeah, I talked to her a few times. She was really cool.

(It seems like a lot of people have been winking slowly out of existence here lately. Lucretia sighs, and pinches the bridge of her nose.) Bill is gone too.

(She feels like she fucked up with Bill. It's something that won't be resolved; she's gone. It seems naive to simply assume she'll come back while Lucretia is still here.)

You know, I never thought I'd be here long enough to form attachments with anybody. (She snorts humourlessly, and plucks the bottle from the grass to have another sip.)