I will never, ever fall, never stumble, and I don't need to be humble

[mooninthewater]

Who: Mizuki & you!
What: Mizuki's here to talk to people now.
When: Couple days after the meeting.
Where: Inn or Therapy Building.
Warnings: Will be in the titles as they come up.

[ Mizuki hasn't really shown himself around the Grove since being outed by Irene. Add and Elsword got to see him, and Vash got to see him the one time, too, but overall? He just kept to his camouflage and sauntered around the place in secret.

Now he thinks he's finally ready for people to come talk to him. He gets the feeling that no one beyond Irene (and Lancer, though he hasn't realized this, yet) is actually mad at him, but he knows there's bound to be a lot of questions. Questions he's not really ready to answer.

Doctor Kal'tsit is going to be so disappointed in him.

You'll visibly find him in one of two places. One, the lobby of the inn, of which he'll be in the chair on the opposite end of the lobby of the Inquisition fireplace. He just stares at it, even as people enter and exit, lost in thought. Two, he'll be at the therapy building. Either just outside, putting cute stickers on the door outside, or in the lobby, playing Frogger.

He doesn't make the effort to actually talk to anyone, but he won't immediately bail if you walk up to him, either. ]

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inn lobby and i'm sorry

[succiduous]

Oh, good, you're here.

[It's nice to see Mizuki Around again. He's got the little Friend Mizuki made him clipped onto his belt, and if his ability to move is anything to go by, he's healing up nicely. Still on crutches, but his ribs are no longer bothering him.]

Will you come with me to the lab? I want to show you something.

["I am trying to distract you from that fireplace come here let me be a nerd at you"]

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…Hi, Mister Gnosis. Um, yeah I can come to the lab with you…??? [ What is happening—-

Whatever, he'll stand up and go to Gnosis' side almost instinctively so he can make sure Gnosis is moving alright on his own and that they can move a little faster out in the snow so bird doesn't stay cold. This is Gnosis' preferred weather, sure, but still… ]

Can I ask what it is, exactly?

[succiduous]

I think you'll like it. It's something I built for the holidays.

[And he will say no more on this topic until they get there, but luckily it isn't a long walk from one side of town to the other. Gnosis opens the lab door and nudges Mizuki inside, out of the cold and into the... well the lab is still kinda cold but that's beside the point.

Near the door but out of the way of walking space is this fucking thing.]

This, [stupid smirk incoming,] is the Chemis-tree.

[oh my god]

1/2

[mooninthewater]

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Pfft- [ It took him a second- ] Ehehehehe!!!! Gnosis! Have you really been working on something like this just for that pun???

[ Giggly jellyfish nudges you playfully, what do you do??? ]

[succiduous]

[Heh.]

I used to put something similar up in the lab on Kjerag. [Of course you did.] We tried to have one on Rhodes Island, but the first year I was there, we put it too close to Thorns.

[It blew up.]

[mooninthewater]

Oh. [ Oh no. ] Yeah, Mister Thorns is...

...

He's interesting. [ Mizuki hasn't met him much, but they've given nods to each other in some vague Basically Raised In Iberia As An Aegir solidarity sometimes. The difference being that Mizuki hasn't really experienced The Racism ever... ] I see you were excited to set it up again.

[succiduous]

It doesn't require much to set up. I already keep those chemicals in those bottles like that, so it was a simple matter of getting tinfoil and setting it into a treelike shape. ["It's very easy and it took me maybe forty-five minutes and I had a good time."] Oh, and it spins.

[You know those spinning earring displays at Claire's, yeah the tree spins. Gnosis spins it. Behold.]

[mooninthewater]

It spins!!!!! [ Oh my god?! Gnosis, this is so good, what the fuck. Mizuki loves it. ] I wish I had gotten you more gifts so we can have little presents underneath. Then it'd be perfect.

Oh, have you talked to Sesa about the star shards he has? Maybe we should stick one of those at the top??

[succiduous]

I have not. I suppose I could. [...] There's really no need to get me anything else, though. I'm actually rather touched with what you did give me. I've never been particularly good with holidays and gift-giving myself.

[mooninthewater]

Realistically… neither am I. My Church didn't really celebrate holidays too often, and by the time I was travelling, I never stayed in one place long enough to really participate all that much. Rhodes is sort of the first place I've settled for a real long time.

…

I suppose that's not the case anymore, though, huh?