applechemist | Not Again | Catch All for Ash

[ It doesn't count if it's hair, so I think we're good, anyway! And Escha nods, then comes to take over to take both the kinds of cocoa powder. She likes the sweet kind, after all. ]

Really...? Sweets always make me feel better... And cocoa is supposed to be sweet.

[ saved by the loopholes. ]

Yeah, I don’t usually drink it. [ because it’s sweet. but, y’know. he offered, caffeine wouldn’t be a great idea right now, and having hot milk kinda makes him feel like he should be three and crying a lot, so.

dark cocoa it is. ]

Don’t people go wild for “dark, rich, superior” types of chocolate anyway? [ check the afflicted accent added for emphasis there. ]

[ Escha goes about preparing their cocoa, which I am too lazy to write out. ]

Huh? I know that some people like dark chocolate, but...

[ What is with that phrasing... ]

[ valid ]

You prefer the sweeter stuff?

[ i had literally forgotten i wrote that until this tag landed in my inbox ]

Well, yeah.

[ Hmm. ]

Maybe it's true that girls just like sweeter things...? [ She's heard that before, somewhere. ]

Maybe? I'm not good at making sweet stuff either. I follow the recipe, no deviating, or it's gonna get wrecked.

[ and even then sometimes it does ]

I can't blame you for that. Some recipes can be really strict. You have to know what you're doing to make changes or substitutions.

Especially when it comes to baking.

... Yeah, I’ve got no time for that, l think. Cooking’s better because you’ve got the space to wing it.

[ She nods easily. ]

You like experimenting when you cook?

Sometimes. Depends on what I've got to cook with.

You can make a croquette, or a burger more interesting pretty easily, but I'd mess up if it was like honey bagel or something like a chiffon cake.

[ hm. ] You seem like the type that'd prefer baking something to cooking something though. Or both.

I like both. I just like eating baked goods more.

[ Escha's appetite... and sweet tooth. Big. ]

[ consume. ]

And I don't have the patience for baking, or the sweet tooth. Some stuff's okay though, I guess.

[ by now the cocoa is done, so Escha sets down a cup for him nearby so they don't. Get stuck trying to do a hand-off. ]

[ thank you for remembering the sticky rules cola, because i would have 200% forgotten.

ash doesn't take the cocoa immediately -- he lets it sit for a little, to cool down. ]

[ I barely remembered.....

Escha also waits before drinking hers, so now they are just standing here in this awkward lapse in conversation because Escha couldn't keep up the chat... ]

[ good i hope it's awkward as heck. until ash opens his big ol' mouth. ]

D'ya wanna keep avoiding the topic of what happened today, or are we gonna swing around to it and talk about it?

[ ... called out... ]

... We can talk about it. I just don't know what there is to say.

Probably better not to dance around the fact we’re definitely stuck in a kill or be killed situation again.

Do you plan to kill anyone?

No, I don't.

You?

[ She shakes her head. ]

No.

But everyone is going to say that. That's why... I don't know what there is to say about it.

The trick now is figuring out who means it, and who'll buckle.

Or maybe figuring out how they're gonna go about twisting our arms.

Even the people we know from our last games - that's still just a small handful of people. And in my game, killers were possessed, so...

... It's so hard to predict anything when even our frame of reference is different.

[ he shrugs. ]

So, trust everyone but trust no one. Bit of a mixed message, isn't it?

Basically.

And trusting someone or not trusting them - either one of those could blow up in our face.

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