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Who: Mai and you
What: Catchall fun times
When: ICly end of April, same as everything else around here
Where: Bloodsands Beach, back at the kitchens, hallway in the housing area
Warnings: The odd inappropriate joke, plus the blanket warning that Mai's a murdergame CRAU so that might come up, given that there are a lot of others around here.

[beach]

[Mai wanders Bloodsands Beach with a sword in one hand (plastic, though, with a chip on the very end) and a pillowcase in the other. She'll occasionally stop to try and pick something up and put it in the bag, which takes a while considering she refuses to let go of the sword, or give a tiny appreciative nod to the local seagulls and crabs. Still, it seems like she's investigating things.]

...

[kitchen]

[Mai made a frightening amount of pea soup and it's taking up way too much space in the fridge, so she's finally just heating it up again and serving it up. If you're coming anywhere near this kitchen, you're getting a bowl and spoon placed in front of you.]

Supper.

[housing hallway]

[Mai lives pretty close to this kitchen anyway, so it's easy for her to just pack everything in and go to bed. Even so, she takes a little time to add something new to her door.

You'll see her pull a bright bumper sticker out of her makeshift bag (pillowcase, it's just the pillowcase), peel it off the backing, and stick it on. The design? Well, it says HONK IF YOU LOVE BOOBIES, with an image of a blue-footed booby next to the text. In tiny text in the corner, there's some copyright information in an alien script that probably doesn't matter. Mai looks at this with a tiny, satisfied hum.]

Nostalgic.

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I still remember how to make it. A lot was fried. And strange combinations.

I'll try anything once!

[blink] What do you like?

Uh...I mean, rice, mostly. But rice and vegetables are like 90% of what I've eaten for my entire life. I want to try out everything.

...Understandable. There are new things all over. Even horrifying ones.

Well, let me know if you do end up doing any flavortown recipes.

Otherwise, thank you for the soup!

[Mai nods, thinking it over.]

Try everything... This looks like a good place for that. Because so much is different.

Definitely. I've lost track of how many things I've seen that I'd never seen before.

And more reality will come to explore. So they say.

I hope so. Don't want to be stuck here forever.

Right. But the people in charge want to help. An improvement.

Have you been in this kind of situation before?

Not this kind. But trapped somewhere. And I know how to fight. Though... Mostly self-taught.

I'm sorry you've had to go through that. With any luck, we won't have to fight anyone or anything here.

Hopefully. Though most of the monsters outside... Hostile. Or otherwise dangerous.

Monsters I can deal with. You don't need to worry about it if you don't want to.

I can fight monsters. And dangerous animals... I can deal with those, too.

I'm sure you can-

[Lin finishes off the bowl of soup by picking it up and just drinking the last bit out directly.]

-but this kind of thing is actually my job. I grew up defending my home, and I will defend this place too if I have to.

...I understand that. But you don't have to be the only one who fights. I know that's hard to deal with, too.

...I guess.

[She kept remembering a man sitting against a slab of rubble and asking for a light. It was a scene that had come to her a lot, lately.]

Hopefully it won't come up.

...[nod] I know, too. But trying to fight on your own... Well-intentioned. But goes poorly.