moonstrualcycle | no running in the halls!

Hey, I grew on you fast. I'd be one of those little white mushrooms that pop up overnight. Get it right.

[ That's gonna be her phone background at some point and you cannot stop her. Anyway, she detaches from Isa and goes to pick up the bowl o' food. ]

Ready?

Mushrooms are fungus, dummy. Let's go, you said exploring next?

[Isa's gonna be so mad whenever she discovers the state of her hair, probably whenever she's rounding up clothes. also that's not really to-go food, Lea, what are you doing.]

Yeah but my point was that I grew on you immediately. Don't lie.

[ Any food is a to-go food if you're brave enough. Let's just go through this conspicuously placed tree in this candy forest, since it's the door we came in through. This is a good, proper introduction to the weird ass rooms and doors in this place. ]

Did you, though.

[she did, it's true, and they both know it. also that's... weird, but makes sense, kind of. Isa's gonna filch some bit of something from the bowl, to get rid of the candy taste.]

I did, and I still am.

[ She has some cheesy breads in there. Anyway, once they're out and close the door it's just a normal hallway again. Isn't that weird? ]

What do you want to see? We've got world rooms, weird rooms, crowds of teenagers in the main areas...

[mmm cheesy bread. she could make a rude joke about Lea being like an std, but she won't.]

That would go over well, the two of us walking up to some teenagers to stare at them. Let's find a room like you mentioned before, that does animal parts.

[ I mean, basically. ]

I mean, considering the amount of— no, nevermind. C'mon, what you want is a potion room.

[ Should she hook her arm around Isa's to be annoying, though. ]

[plz. what was Lea going to say there, i can't tell.]

Will the potion wear off when we leave, like Halloween Town did?

[there weren't any feathers lying around the apartment, at least. boy, wait until Isa finds out about the naga Axel who lives on the first floor of the apartment building.]

[ That guy freaks her out. Also she was going to say something to the equivalent of "Considering the amount of mes that wanna bang teenagers", but why tell Isa that. ]

Probably not!

[ She's very cheerful about that. ]

[there was just an indignant "hey!" from ninxel, way off in the distance, and then "I'm twenty-five, Axel," from Kai.]

...well. I guess you're lucky I don't have anything better to do.

[she likes to know what she's getting into before she gets into it, is all. if she wasn't like that before they decided to infiltrate a castle full of scientists just to figure out what happened to a guy they barely knew, she certainly is now.]

It's going to be like that most of the time now, at least until we go home.

[ Together, is what she wants to say, but apparently she still has time to catch up. It makes her wonder if she'll be like Riku was, with half-forgotten memories. ]

Not having anything better to do, I mean. C'mon, it's not far. There are a lot of these.

[...when, with Riku? ?_?]

I'd better not end up going back to the point where you left off, I don't want to experience all that again.

[ When she went back for the Mark of Mastery she forgot a lot of minor things, like how old she really was. ]

Prob'ly won't. Never heard of that happening before. You'll probably end up back home and one day I'll just be like 'so hey, remember that weird place where you committed fairy genocide?'

[ohhh right. well, it happens.]

That... would be weird, if I ended up back there. Like, for good. It wasn't bad there, but.

[but she's ducking her head so her hair hides her face, which means whatever was supposed to come after the "but" is mildly embarrassing.]

Why would it be weird? I'll be there. Don't tell me you've gotten used to this place already.

[ She genuinely can't figure out why it would be weird. Everything bad is over with, right? ]

[ughhh. Lea might notice that Isa's gone tense where their arms are linked, almost like she wants to pull away but isn't.]

...look, it's really nice here. There were a lot of people around back home.

[don't make her say it, it'll just call attention to how weird and possessive of their friendship she is.]

[ Nope. She tightens the grip she has with her arm, which simultaneously puts her closer, and she uses that to bump shoulders with Isa. She gets where this is going, but she'll be nice about it for now. Not like she knows who all is there... ]

You'll get used to them. But hey, if it's stressing you out don't think about it. You're stuck here for now anyway.

[pbbbbt, says Isa, mentally.]

Mostly it'd just be jarring to go from this back to that, I think.

[and then with the knowledge that there was the Lea here that she'd been torn away from, if she went home and stayed there. that would suck.]

[ But she'd catch up, probably not long after. Lea gets it, though, and talking about his all is kind of giving her low-key anxiety. So she nods and turns them down the corner, tapping her fingers against the food container. ]

It always is. What kind of potion are you after?

[these two are a trainwreck of emotions, it's great. is Lea going to be having a potion as well or is she going to eat food while Isa tries to figure out how to have animal parts without looking like an idiot?]

You mean I can choose besides just "animal parts"?

Not the animal, usually, but you can choose more potions than just animal parts.

[ Gosh, she'll have potions. That's half the fun? But what will Lea choose. There are so many options. She slows down and tugs Isa toward a door that looks like it's been splattered with multiple neon paints. ]

[Isa's really tempted right now to just let Lea pick, so they'll be even from that thing in the bathroom doorway.]

Dunno what else I'd try. I'm definitely not ready to see how it feels to be a guy. What else is there?

[ Lea would say that is not an even trade, and thinks she could get Isa to let her pick anyway. ]

All kinds of weird shit. I don't even know where to start. Sometimes they just change your colors around. Sometimes you switch bodies, get stuck with people... It's a mess.

That doesn't sound like something I want either, if it's not controllable and may not wear off when we leave. Why don't you find me one for animal parts and we'll go from there.

[bodyswapping in particular is a big dnw for Isa; it's too much like not being in control of her actions.]

Look, I'm gonna tell you now, basically nothing is controllable. This place likes to fuck with you, and it's not nice about it. Everything kinda goes away on it's own, too. One time I got stuck with paws for like two days.

[ And that was one of the less terrible effects. ]

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