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[pheromonecoffee]

So we all need a break and some fun right? Anthony and I are going to try to eat an entire cake, and there's a really nice bakery cafe thing on Pine so everyone is also invited to try. I, personally, will take any bets from someone who can finish an entire cake. Any takers?

Also I will be drinking hot sauce and coffee since somebody won't leave me alone about it :|;;;; Who wants to miss that? No one wants to miss that. I'm sure I'll laugh about it in thirty years.

3PM, that one on Pine and 4th.

[Action

No he seriously is waiting there at the cafe for anyone to join him. Because what is stupid adventures without friends?

But the more people come the better it is for the bakery owners, right? Totally. So grab a chair, get some coffee and let us all eat until we are sick. Just be prepared for commentary from the kid.]

Comments

[pheromonecoffee]

Someone who saw you with Nemesis and could've freaked out?

[orangehoodie]

I could've just zapped them.

[pheromonecoffee]

Do you want to do that on the street?

[orangehoodie]

... Nobody will have to know.

Nemesis can make really tiny electricity too.

[pheromonecoffee]

Have you tried?

[orangehoodie]

I found some kids bullying a cat.

[yes]

[pheromonecoffee]

... Try not to use magic on stuff like that. We don't know what it does to us.

[orangehoodie]

We don't know, so it's better to use it when we don't need it, right? If I use it again and faint again and we're in the middle of another attack, I could die.

[pheromonecoffee]

I didn't faint from second use, you didn't faint from second use, please don't use your persona on bullies, Ken.

[orangehoodie]

[He lowers his eyes and brings his coffee to his face and pointedly looks away from Matt.]

Sorry.

[pheromonecoffee]

Don't be sorry. Just be careful--they could be keeping an eye on us now.

[orangehoodie]

[SILENCE. Sipping away at his coffee, or at least pretending to. But he nods, at least.]

[pheromonecoffee]

... Besides, you'll give somebody a heart attack.

[orangehoodie]

[-- this is the look of a kid who didn't even think about that.]

... oh my god. I'm a terrible person.

[pheromonecoffee]

Nah, not really. If they were bullying someone, they deserve it. I'm more worried about you and anyone who might see you.

[orangehoodie]

...

I won't do it anymore.

[More because it's just dawning on him if anyone finds out he has these powers and is numbered his dad might get in trouble. It doesn't make sense to him but people do shit that don't make sense to get at people all the time.]

[pheromonecoffee]

[Matt pats his shoulder.] Thank you.

[orangehoodie]

...

I found an armband in my room when I got home from the hospital.

[pheromonecoffee]

The red one?

[orangehoodie]

Uh-huh. The one that says SEES on it. "Execute Sector," huh.

[pheromonecoffee]

It makes me feel like I'm in a gang. [Matt, no.] But I'm pretty sure that's not what it's about...

[orangehoodie]

They look like armbands they'll make people wear in something like a small army. Were we soldiers?

[pheromonecoffee]

Not in a traditional sense, I don't think.

I remember some stuff, though... Fighting monsters and stuff? But you knew that...

[orangehoodie]

Yeah.

What do you think they did that for? Do you think... it was normal? For their world, I mean.

[pheromonecoffee]

No. It wasn't. [Not after his memory of summoning Orpheus the first time. It can't have been.]