Thought for food [Open!]

[powertotearer]

Who: Eiji (powertotearer), more adorable robot buddies, and you
When: IC 8/10
Where: In the gardens, along the water
What: Eiji needs to think a bit. And eat. That would be good too.
Rating/Warning: None so far

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Eiji had not enjoyed his last stint in ViViD. Locked in a threatening place, dead people that looked way too familiar, and of course the terrifying moment of being strapped to an operating table for experiments, again.

There was really only so long he could spend in his apartment, moping, especially when most of the appliances weren't working and he really needed to eat.

So, if you were Eiji, you'd go out, find a spot along the water, and start a fire to grill up some fish--fish that he'd had to buy, when he realized he had no idea what species in the water were sentient and/or poisonous. But an impromptu cookout was enough to help clear his mind for a little.

What also helped? Three new candroids--two Battas and one Kujaku, who were happily playing with Eiji's two Takos.

Also, if any of the candroids were celebrating the malfunctioning of the inferior CYbuddy oppressors? Well, Eiji was trying not to notice.

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[onethousen]

She listened to him as he spoke, holding her bag close and doing her best to understand what she was hearing. The excitement, lacking a sense of home, missing friends... some of it resonated better than other things. Yet part of what she'd been learning was how to understand those points of view that were different than hers.

Could she understand what he was saying. "It does. You miss the people who can't be with you. They're your home." Not any blue house, or grey house, or any colour house. The people were who he missed. She could understand that. She felt it too. "It doesn't mean that meeting new people and seeing different places isn't interesting. You just also have people to come back to. That's important to you."

It was something important to her, too, for all that her people mostly meant her parents. Until here. Now it was every face she could remember that spoke to her heart as something like home.

[powertotearer]

Something about the way she was holding the bag close to her made Eiji wonder if maybe this was harder on Chihiro than she was trying to let on--how many times, after all, had he seen Hina back home clutch her purse or whatever (and sometimes, the unfortunate whomever) was closest when talk turned to her brother?

"Are you okay? Do you have anyone here to stay with?"

[onethousen]

"Mm! I'm okay." She said it with a nod of her head, not smiling, but looking like she had a good sense of herself. "There's people who I can ask for things if I need to, and are ready to help me out. If I want to be staying with them, I can." She wasn't sure what she wanted to do quite yet. That or the player's not entirely sure. "People have been kind. I'm thankful."

[powertotearer]

He nodded back, although a little reluctantly. He'd seen some pretty self-reliant kids around here, but they'd at least had someone to stay with.

"If there's anything else you need, just let me know, okay?"

[onethousen]

She paused, considering his words. Not that she didn't feel she could rely on people, and not that she didn't think she probably would end up finding someone to stay with (who wasn't, er, a dragon who lived in her dresser). It was simply a reminder that the kindnesses of those around her were a warming, welcome thing, even when she had nothing she wanted to ask after.

"Thank you. I will, if I can think of anything. Giving me a way of testing out this stuff is a big help, though! I've never had to do anything quite like it before. Though I've made a volcano once. That was fun." Science was amazing.

[powertotearer]

"Okay. And that sounds pretty nice too. Don't know if it would work the same way as these, though."

He considered the bath bombs again for a moment--especially the cute turtle one--and finally asked, "And if they really do work out, let me know. They look like they'd be nice to try out once in a while."

[onethousen]

She hoped it wouldn't work the same way with the bath bombs! Imagine having the water react chemically to the point where it's fizzing up and going all over the place. It sounded like more of a mess than anything else, and she the only one around to, well, clean it up.

"Hm? Oh, of course! As long as I turn the short reviews in on time, they said they'll keep giving me the samples. Is there any particular scent or something you like?"

She can keep an eye (or nose) out for anything in particular.

[powertotearer]

"Anything, really, thanks. Whatever you think looks good. You're the expert, after all."

[onethousen]

She nodded, planning to do as much. "Okay! I'll find a good one for you." Something herbal like what Kamaji-san managed...

[powertotearer]

"Thanks. Are you sure you don't want me to walk you back?"

He was a little more careful this time not to say "home," knowing full well that Cerealia would never be that.

[onethousen]

She shook her head, eyes bright, expression determined. "It's okay. Thank you for offering, Eiji-san. I'll see you later!"

Home was a matter of heart. It wasn't the place she wanted to be, and it was missing a good deal of who was important in her heart, but she was young. She'd make it work, best as she could.

Every day was an opportunity. She'd do what she could to make the best of that.