huhh…
[without a moment to spare, wrapping is peeled off, popping gummy right into their mouth. this really is good…]
i might have to check it out, then… where’d you say it was?
There's a really good store nearby! I buy all my snacks from there. Good taste, and they're all pretty cheap!
( Gummies going into their hand, before he opens another pack for himself. Mmm... just what he needed. )
like odysseus, i too am constantly getting myself ensnared in plots and ploys of my own making and working my way out by grit or grift only to arrive at another impasse that tests my mettle and taxes my wits until at last i escape again and lurch home where yet more trials await
I like to pretend to eat my cat and she gets so so so upset. I take imaginary bites out of her and she freezes. And then she stares at me so upset like. And then I keep eating her and she looks around like is anyone else seeing this
… mh?
[to them, a “need” and a “want” is practically the same thing— or rather, there’s a very thin line between the two. despite their eyes gazing off away from the other, head is still tilted. they’re not one for conversation, but…]
… then chat.
⠀
⠀[ they recoil, mostly out of embarrassment. their hand drops as they give a reluctant nod. ]
⠀i - i was ... yeah ... but i didn't need anything ! i just ... wanted to chat ... ?
⠀[ them ? chat ? very unlikely. perhaps they were trying to gauge a bit of info from her. ]