PC: CALEB

[headmt]

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[headmt]

[Reaching over to adjust his coat on Caleb, fixing the collar and flattening out the front so it's nice and sparkly.]

An expert then! Better show me how.

[Says Molly who has also clearly been doing these.]

[katzepaw]

[Just poking through the machine, choosing some stickers for them.]

Which ones do you want.

[headmt]

[Leaning forward to flick through them, tail swishing while he thinks. Picking out some cats and stars and moons and sparkles. Y'know. Stuff like the things on his coat.]

[katzepaw]

[Okay, posing with him for some pictures, arm slung over his shoulder.]

[headmt]

[Happy enough to lean in, making some funny faces and sticking his tongue out, some bunny ears behind Caleb's head, and then leaning in to kiss him on the cheek for the last one.]

[katzepaw]

[Wow, bold. He goes a little red at that, smiling crookedly at him. Anyway, moving some of the stickers around, adding a couple things, and then going to print it.]

[headmt]

[It's fine, that's just a friendly normal thing you do to someone out of the blue.

Adjusting his own sunglasses and just pushing them up to the top of his head, crowding in to see the printed picture, holding it up.]

You're going to have to find a way to recreate these sorts of things with magic. Jester's going to lose her mind over them.

[katzepaw]

That’s not a bad idea. Maybe I could make something like that.

[The pictures are cute. Handing him one where Molly looks very handsome in his glasses, but tucking the smooch picture in his pocket.]

[headmt]

[I'm so scared he's putting that in his pocket you're death flagging me it's gonna be like and then he has it sadly in his dead body pockets ...............]

Maybe when we leave we just loot the place. Take this whole thing with us.

[Patting Caleb on the back, gesturing his head towards the drink cart.]

Drinking, and then I want to go do the ice skating thing. You'll look like a newborn horse out there, and it'll be great.

[katzepaw]

[ :)

Anyway, he will follow him to the drink cart.]

You are wrong. I am not claiming to be especially graceful, but I used to go when I was young. Maybe I will teach you a thing or two.

[headmt]

Maybe! I've never done it before.

[He's gonna break his tail. Just grinning widely when it's his Teen NPC nemesis there, already starting to cower when he sees this fucking purple alcoholic again with the ID that says he's two years old.]

Okay, fuck this, I'm just going to--

[Just? Hopping the counter and looking over at Caleb?]

What do you want? Beer? Wine?

[The teen is just ... staring at him.]

[katzepaw]

We are going out in the cold, yes?

[So, to the concession teen - ]

We will have, uhm, hot cocoa with peppermint schnapps.

[headmt]

[Molly who is already behind the counter and trying to steal, just grabs the peppermint schnapps bottle and gestures for the teen to get cocoa. No one is really trying to stop him. Hopping back over the counter again.]

Fancy.

[katzepaw]

This is not fancy. This is what you drink with a hot drink. This or perhaps brandy. Where I grew up, it was always freezing cold in the winter.

[Don't accuse him of being fancy? But he will pour a generous helping in their hot cocoa for each of them.]

[headmt]

[Holding it up for a cheers? Starting to head for the door at the same time.]

It's a little fancy. A tiny bit. Fancier than drinking piss right out of the bottle. [Teasing, mostly.] That so? You seem a little more suited for cold than me, I'm afraid. Only really had the one winter I remember, and I do not care for it.

[katzepaw]

Sure, anything is fancier than that.

[Walking with him, bumping his drink against his, and then just a little bumping his shoulder against his.]

You might learn to like it. So long as there are warm drinks and somewhere warm to get to after, it isn't so bad.

[headmt]

Prost.

[He probably says it wrong but he's doing his best.]

I'll get used to it, probably. But maybe next adventure we head for somewhere beachy still. That seems like fun.

[Wow! Future assumptions. Bold.]

[katzepaw]

Prost.

[A little smile.]

It does seem like fun.

[headmt]

[Sipping at his drink, not really in any rush to get anywhere. Just grinning back at him.]

Beauregard started suggesting I'd fuck off to parts unknown after we get back, which-- I'm sure she meant it in that way where obviously she's suggesting I stick around, but it's funny. Not like I've got anywhere else to go. What else would I do? Find a new circus? You lot have already got the three rings thing down I think.

[katzepaw]

[He smiles a little at that, though.]

. . . What did she say, exactly? I think you may have misunderstood her. Ah. . . I think it may be more that she is worried it would be dangerous for you, to be with us if we are still dealing with Lucien.

[headmt]

[No, she was being tsundere.]

No, I don't think so. She said I could stay with the group or go run off forever with Claude if I wanted, I guess.

[katzepaw]

With Claude?

[There's kind of an amused question there.]

Well, Beauregard is Beauregard, and I suppose if you did decide to leave here with Claude we wouldn't have any right to stop you. But that isn't what she said to me.

[headmt]

A joke. Because it would be a silly option.

[An amused response.]

... What did she say to you then? And I suppose I don't know the specifics, but you'd think if I was around, by definition your Lucien problem might be taken care of.

[katzepaw]

I have no fucking idea how it will work. [He shrugs.] She was just talking about finding a safe place for you.

But. . . [He realizes after a moment.] She doesn't know that there aren't any, anymore. I've ruined that for us.

[headmt]

[Well by now they've probably made it to the center of campus, so Molly just goes to lean over the edge to the ice skating rink, arms on it, nursing his drink now. Tilting his head a bit.]

What do you mean?