PC: MANDRICARDO

[headmt]

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[headmt]

I-- I look like a person that's attended a school before?

[He has facial tattoos.]

[duranduel]

Uh.

[...]

[He's blushing again.]

I-I-I was just saying in general! Like having a handle on it means...you're dealing with it better! Nothing about going to school!

[headmt]

[Mandy, you're hilarious. Molly just reaches over to pat him on the cheek.]

You're not wrong. I do have a little experience waking up in unexpected locations. But I'm sure you'll pick it up quickly!

[duranduel]

[molly PLEASE]

Erghhh... [EMO GROAN] I don't know...and wait, what do you mean, "unexpected locations"?

[headmt]

I mean blue suude and clear liquor combined leads down strange roads and into ditches sometimes.

[drugs.]

You're worried about what it all means? When the other shoe is dropping? The hammer to fall?

[duranduel]

...Oh. Sounds kinda exciting, though.

[Mandricardo, no.]

Uh. [And he looks away.] Yeah. It seems like...too good to be true.

[headmt]

Very exciting! Or I suppose it would be if I could remember it. Bit of a blackout situation.

[yeah mandricardo do some drugs.]

That's because it is. But the thing about waiting for a sword to hit you is that it's going to hurt the same if you tense for it or not.

[duranduel]

That's just pushing yourself too far. But at least you had fun?

[yeah he deserves to do drugs]

...Hm. [And a thoughtful look.] That's right. Though, I can't really help it. I'm the type who just worries too much, you see...

[headmt]

Now that I can tell.

[He pauses, squints at him - leaning forward to really look.]

Only one solution.

[duranduel]

[LEAAAAAAANING BACK WITH CONCERN]

Uh. What is that?

[headmt]

Come with me, we're going to find some shit to get up to right this instant!

[And just confidently walking off in ... some direction. Any direction.]

[duranduel]

[JAW FALLING OPEN]

Huh? HUH? [And oh no, Molly is going. Mandricardo............follows!] Hey! H-hey, wait!

[headmt]

I've been told no drugs by Sally, but surely there's something good out there-- [Looking around, looking around ... ] You know how to swim?

[duranduel]

Uh, yeah? I know how to swim...

[Just blinking at the "no drugs" part.]

Why? Do you want to go to the pool?

[headmt]

[Trotting along, now definitely heading towards the pool!]

Yeah, why not! That thing is pretty remarkable. Never seen anything like it. So clean. Half the time when you want to go for a swim, nothing but muddy hell holes around.

[duranduel]

What, really? That sucks.

[feeling awkward because WOW BAD RESPONSE THERE, MANDRICARDO]

I-I mean, yeah, it's nice...that we have such a thing here. And it's pretty...

[headmt]

[He laughs REALLY loud at that. That's great. Sass? He loves it.]

Well, what's home for you like?

[duranduel]

[He thinks for a moment.]

Oh, its a place of a lot of grasslands, so fields as far as the eyes can see...and then we also have rather steep mountains, too, to the west. It's a very pretty place...but it's been a long time since I've been home.

[headmt]

[Tilting his head.]

Somewhere else traveling, then?

[duranduel]

[A nod.]

I left my kingdom to become an adventurer, and also to...do something important. I never went back, not because I didn't want to, just...it just never happened.

[headmt]

Then, I suppose, to one day seeing home again.

[The pool! Molly spots it and starts taking his extravagant coat off, just throwing it over his arm instead - before he gets to the poolside and then sitting down on the ground to start unlacing his very, very tall boots.]

Not that I really have one. But you get the point.

[duranduel]

...If it's even there anymore.

[He says, almost murmuring it to himself. Mandricardo follows, before standing awkwardly at the pool's edge next to Molly.]

You don't have a home? As in...you don't know, or you left it behind for a new one?

[headmt]

[Sometimes, you can't go home again. Yanking his boots off, setting to them the side one by one.]

Mm. Not exactly either of those things. Suppose home was with the Carnival for a while, wherever we'd pull to the side of the road for the evening, or had the tent set up outside whatever the next backwater village was. And then once that was done, it's the nearest campfire, or the shitty inn the Nein can scrap the silver together for. And for now, it's here. Spring dorm.

[duranduel]

Oh. So you were like a nomad, then.

[A forever wanderer, always on their feet...]

Do you like that sort of life? I guess you're always seeing something new...

[headmt]

I can't imagine anything else!

[Pulling his shirt over his head now. He has a a fuckload of tattoos. And then, mercifully, he keeps his pants on, standing up, crossing his arms over his chest and flops backwards into the pool. Wow.]