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SOBA

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CHARACTER NAME

Geto Suguru

CIVILIAN NAME

Zaru Soba

TEAM

Brimstone

HOUSING NUMBER

003

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Comments

[undrowned]

... sorry, what does that mean?

[gorb]

The staff.

Man or robots?

[undrowned]

Oh. Well ... I mean it's a restaurant, does the type of staff matter? We can pick our own food, but there will be servers, I'm sure.

[gorb]

I'm picky in what I consume these days.

I can come with you though. There'll probably be tea.

[undrowned]

Oh. Do you have allergies?

If you can't eat the food, it's going to be really weird if you just sat in front of me to watch me eat.

[gorb]

It's only weird if we make it weird.

( He still takes his daughters out to eat, he just doesn't. )

And no allergies, no. I just don't unless I know where it's come from. Or who.

[undrowned]

I don't mean that. It's meant to be enjoyed together.

[ rover reads his response and thinks, okay. that sort of makes sense? it's a new environment, you'd want to be careful, right? and it's not a crime to be picky. people have different hangups with food. ]

I'll just pick something else. I'll feel terrible otherwise.

[gorb]

( ... Is that guilt he feels?

First the sandcastle, now this. )

There's a teahouse that is run by virtual assistants. I've been there before. It does food too, I think.

[undrowned]

A teahouse .... would only have desserts, no?

I'll make sure to eat dinner before we go out.

[gorb]

Are you worried I'm bullying innocent construction workers in my spare time?

[undrowned]

What a strange question.

It has more to do with my appetite than anything else.

[gorb]

Well, there are probably more pleasant people to spend your time with.

[undrowned]

Probably.

I'm sorry if I bothered you. I thought I'd ask if you're available, but I'll keep in mind your restrictions with food next time.

Jinzhou is big on hospitality, and the best way they like to show it is by sharing food with others.

[gorb]

( He hates this limbo he has himself stuck in, incapable of sticking to either sets of his morality, never knowing which direction to take. Is she human? He doesn't know. Does he want to know? Does it even really matter? Will answering that send him spiralling further?

Time to suck it up. )

You didn't bother me.

I'll come with you to the buffet. I'm sure it will be fine. Is Jinzhou where you're fine?

[undrowned]

[ ignorant to the internal suffering of her new acquaintance, rover is just staring at that question, because how does one answer that.




... well, sure. it's not wrong if she says otherwise. she was from jinzhou. ]

... I don't want you to just stare at me eat.

I will go with you to the cafe instead.

And yes, I came from Jinzhou.

wow ty for reading the comment how i meant it and not how i wrote it???

[gorb]

Sharing food was important where I'm from too. We made it a point to in my family.

But it's been a while since I went for a meal with anyone, it's possible I'm rusty.

i gotchu

[undrowned]

I'm not faulting you for it.

It takes time to learn, and we have nothing but time now.

[gorb]

Ah, I suppose you're right.

It's not like we can decide to go home. And not everyone would want to either.

[undrowned]

... do you want to return?

[gorb]

( Briefly he thinks about lying, but it's not his mood for the day, and so. )

Ah, it doesn't matter if I want to or not.

I'm dead back home. Or I will be very shortly. I don't particularly have a say in it.

[undrowned]

I'm sorry.

[gorb]

Don't be.

I'm not.

( Actually, he's spiralling but that's nothing to do with Rover. )

LILITH was just particularly clever with the timing, that's all.

[undrowned]

[ wow her new friend sure is Heavy with alladat, rover thinks, worrying ]

Are you ... happier, then, being here?

[gorb]

I'm alive.

That's better than nothing.

[undrowned]

.... that's not anything, either.

[ so he's just ... miserable. got it. ]