She doesn't answer immediately, just digs the heels of her palms into her eyes like a child trying to fight the desire to sleep. When she pulls them away again, there's an emptiness in her gaze. "...Words are hard." Translation: I wanna talk, but it takes physical effort to speak.

"Wait, yesterday was /that/ day?" "That also explains why the... everything was hitting harder than usual."

"... I mean, same, but uh... Are you good? Do ya need to get something off your chest?"

"Wave." "Pretty sure I've heard her yelling at you like this over the coms."

"Recon, obviously. Jet likes to get a lay of the land when he's planning a new heist, but you know as well as I that's not always safe to do in person. Besides, since I'm usually not allowed to join most jobs, I use this little guy as a means to do my own thing."

Eyebrow twitch as she's doing maintenance on her drone. She doesn't look up, though. "That's not a very nice thing to say to a team mate."

Unfortunately, it's difficult to intimidate this bird, unless you genuinely want to hurt her.

Smile back and wave! She sees no reason not to be friendly.

"Help! Jet and I got turned into Miis!" "I don't even know what those are!!!!"

"Well, bad news; I've already done therapy. For 5 years. I'm not going back."

"Oh fuck no."

She gives a dull glare at that. "You'd also have me on your ass in the meantime, so no. Don't do that."

"I have an anxiety disorder. Sleep is almost impossible for me because my mind starts racing the second I lay down. And on the off chance I do manage to drift off... Well, those are the nights I wake everyone with my screaming." She yawns, rubbing her eye. "And good luck getting /c

"I thought sleep studies were for people who sleep?" She... Doesn't look much better than Jet. These two I stg.

"Depends on what you call working out. Do I go to the gym? Ew, no. Does my lifestyle include enough physically demanding tasks that I stay in shape anyway? Hell yes."

Wheeze. She's fairly certain he's just being silly. "Gasoline bad. Jet no."

"... You wanna deepthroat a gas dispenser?"

Who wants to play a game? It's called "Are the Babylon Rogues smuggling weapons or just hard drugs today?" What's YOUR guess?

My 𝐛𝐫𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 , my 𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐡𝐚𝐥𝐟 𓈒

"I prefer robbing them blind, personally. Bruises and broken bones don't have the long-term effect like having a bank account drained because they need to replace their most precious items."

"I'm so glad my writer had to step away from the stream, and then forgot to return. She would've lost it." "Now excuse me while I stop her from pressing play on that clip."

"I was concerned until I saw the goofy ahh vid."

"Hell yeah! A song we both like!"

"Holy shit. You actually learned the lyrics to that?" She would continue the song, but the writer is blanking hard.

"Anyone up? I can't sleep again."

you hurt. it's okay. i hurt too. hold my hand.

"Free shit that's usually pink and involves hearts in some way." "But yeah, I'm right there with you."

Nothing nice at all? No capacity for happiness or anything else?

But she didn't even do anything! 😕

"... I just realized I don't remember when exactly my birthday is." "Uggggghhhh why do I have to have a broken brain?"

Cue a massive giggle for as she lightly bonks her head against his. "I'm asking what you want for your birthday, you dingus!"

"..." "D... Did you completely miss the question?

"I know you do, but I'm still not allowed to talk to you! Sorry!" Keep walking, Cloud. Don't make eye contact. Don't read his energy. Just. Keep. Walking.

// HELL YEAH THEY FINALLY ADDED DRAFTS.

"... I'm not supposed to talk to you." And she's walking away before she changes her mind.

"I don't know what this is about, but I like that idea too!"

Cloud just... stays there. Draped on his back. Content as can be. "Hell yeah! The question is, what do I get someone as awesome and talented as you? I've been wracking my brain and I can never think of anything."

"Ayo?"

Thieving 、Stealing 、taking what's not yours.

Just... Tackle-hugging him from behind. "Someone's excited."

Blink blink. She was just chilling, and now there's a small human... Ish child coming out of the pond. Even so, Cloud smiles brightly when they make eye contact. "Hi! Out for a swim?"

"Every day."

She's eyeing @aquatic-limerence.bsky.social from a distance. Is he going to be trouble for Jet?

"... Oh my God, someone finally gets it."

"Normal is overrated. Be weird!"

"So, I'm not the only one who becomes ridiculously accident-prone in the kitchen? Awesome."

// D... Did bsky really delete the 5 post response I had in the works? 😐

"Let's see... Theft, obviously. Vandalism, destruction of private and government property, robbery, helping with robbery, possession of illegal substances... Is there a separate thing for distribution of said substances? Because that too."