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[maipokerface]

[Okay, now she's not just bored and unhappy. She's bored, unhappy and mildly sick. Or what feels like being a little sick anyhow.]

So this starts off like a cold, right? How bad is it going to end up getting.

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[maipokerface]

[Wait, hold up.]

You have a kid?

[upholsteredvelvet]

Adoptive, adoptive!

[He only realised too late how that sounded...]

[maipokerface]

[Her brows raise up a bit at his reaction. Hey if he had a kid, it wasn't like she really cared. It was more a surprise than anything.]

That works out well then. Kids are always clingy.

[Or well Tom-Tom is.]

[upholsteredvelvet]

I don't know that I'd call her clingy, but more or less. I don't mind doing you a favour, though.

[maipokerface]

[She waves a hand there.]

I'll manage.

[upholsteredvelvet]

Yes, you're doing a terribly good job of that, aren't you?

[maipokerface]

I'm trying, alright?

[Oh such a distinctive 'back off, buddy' about that tone.]

[upholsteredvelvet]

[Sorry, Waver is selectively tone deaf!]

Well, I'm trying too! It won't kill me to hold your hand for a few minutes or something.

[Really, it won't. He'll bring hand sanitiser.]

[maipokerface]

I don't want your pity.

[Gruff and tired. This place wears her out in a way she never thought any place would. Omashu was boring but this place...]

[upholsteredvelvet]

It isn't pity!

[maipokerface]

Sure looks like it to me.

[upholsteredvelvet]

Well it isn't! You were nice to me, so...

[He trails off, embarrassed, because he can't really put what he's trying to say into words.]

[maipokerface]

... I was?

[When?]

[upholsteredvelvet]

Wh-- yes! Obviously!

[Yes, that was nice.]

[maipokerface]

It would have just been stupid to let you set yourself on fire. If that's what you're talking about anyhow.

[upholsteredvelvet]

That doesn't mean I'm not used to people doing such a thing regardless.

[maipokerface]

So you don't make it a habit to throw yourself near open fires then.

[upholsteredvelvet]

I wasn't being literal.

[maipokerface]

So what, people just let you faceplant around them constantly?

[...]

You're clumsy.

[upholsteredvelvet]

There's nothing wrong with being clumsy.

[Aside of, you know, the fact that one is clumsy.]

[maipokerface]

Not if you like eating dirt a lot.

[upholsteredvelvet]

I don't eat dirt.

[maipokerface]

Grass?

[upholsteredvelvet]

I'm not a cow.

[maipokerface]

[Okay, she's just laughing again. Damn it, Waver.]