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[ staring... at... it... ]

... Is that...normal? [ [cloud strife voice] am i seeing things again ]

[sir your soup]

What? [a beat.] -- Oh. Fuck, is it the fire again?

[takes a second to try and calm herself down.]

Yeah. Used to be worse if you can believe it.

[ Huh. Wouldja Look At That vibes ]

I can. [ he has seen. weirder. ] Magic thing, then?

Engine thing.

[raps her knuckles against her chest. it makes a thud thud clank sound.]

[ ...... huh ]

... Prob'bly not the best time to ask, but... why?

[it's a nice distraction, at least.]

It's not meant to run out on other planes, just the Hells, so it's hot. Gets worse when I'm furious.

I figured as much. [ that it runs hotter when her attitude does ] Just... is that a regular thing for thieflings?

[ are you also a pet science project ma'am ]

[stop listening to yuffie]

Tiefling. [she corrects, amused.] And no. It's just a thing for me.

[pet science project isn't... wrong, honestly]

[ STOP MY TYPO!!!! THAT WASN'T HIM THAT WAS MEEEE ]

... Alright. [ he doesn't want to ask how it happened because it's getting invasive now. ] If it's not meant to work in other planes... any way it could break down on you?

[ is this dangerous to yourself miss karlach ]

[THE WAY YOU TYPOED EXACTLY WHAT YUFFIE CALLS HER

anyway

there's a pause, and then she smiles.]

Nah. It'll be alright. My mechanic took care of it fine before we got here.

[ i always write thiefling if i am not looking at my fingers it is simply... gross habit ]

... Alright. Good to know. [ he doesn't smile back but he looks like. 5% relieved? don't @ him on having feelings ]

[cloud you softie]

The concern's nice, though. [teases gently!!] Don't worry, I'm not clockwork or anything, I won't just freeze up.

[ don't........ call him out..... immediately looking AWKWARD ]

Figured it'd be more like you'd burn out. [ whomp whomp. ]

[there's another little shift.]

Yeah? You've got experience with things like these? [curious just asking for a friend ha haaaaa]

[ shakes his head? ]

I'm good with motorcycles, but that's about it. [ he shrugs ] But I thought it might be like... Gale's thing. 'Xcept mechanical.

[she seems. surprised?]

Hang on, how much of that did he tell you?

[ A LOT. HONESTLY. ]

Uh... Enough to know if something happens to him, it'll be bad.

[ he's keeping it vague because "bitch is dying of magic" is weird to ... say? anyway cloud was not under the impression this was a big secret. because gale just told him. they bonded ]

[help me karlach like oh i THOUGHT this was supposed to be a secret but actually she's stupid]

I mean, I know all about it, we've been traveling together for months, it's just - huh. He must trust you at least a little bit.

Well. Don't let him lie to you too much. Anything good he said about Mystra is wrong. Batty old toerag.

[ LOOKS A LITTLE SURPRISED ABOUT THE TRUST THING LIKE HUH, ]

He didn't go into too many details. Just the short of it. [ so he doesn't know names or anything. maybe. i am not rereading pcs to doublecheck ] Who's Mystra?

[congratulations gale looked at you and your soupy egg brain and was like yeah this guy can handle the truth]

Goddess of Magic. She's awful. She can smite me or whatever, I don't care.

[ in his defense. he can handle so much truth that ISN'T about himself. ]

Is she the one responsible for...?

[that's fair]

In a sense yeah. It's her fault.

Then you're probably right about her being a bitch.

[ not her words but thats where it go ]

[ok, but despite everything it makes her laugh, so.]

Yeah! Yeah. I am right. [...] Gods, those problems seem so far away right now.

... We've got different issues while we're here, but everything back home is still waiting for us to make it back.

[ so it's just more problems!! to deal with!!! ]

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