week two | dates

[marriagebroker]

Kiss the girl~!

Or guy.

Or person.

Or Messmer's snake.

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[reverso]

[Ma'am?

Resigned, as he picks up his bowl again-]

That's called cheating, you know.

[irreversal]

I think it's more like... being resourceful, Verso-san.~

I'm impressed that you understood what I meant, though. A lot of people just don't have a sense for what I'm talking about. [ wonder why,, ]

[reverso]

Oh. That's because... I knew Esquie once — a friend of mine. He spoke in such a baffling way, but I've never met someone quite as wise.

[Though he speaks of the past, he doesn't seem to mind taking about Esquie. One of his best friends.]

We once had a conversation talking about our feelings, happiness versus sadness. A bit of 'wheee' and a little bit of 'whooo.' It captures the general feel of what you're trying to say.

[irreversal]

[ Nodding emphatically. ]

I totally get it.

[ Though it's unexpectedly adorable, for someone like Verso to be talking about 'whee' and 'whoo'... ]

Esquie, you said? A friend? Do you think he's watching this?

[reverso]

[And it's so nice for someone to understand right out of the gate.]

I... wish. [And this is why he shouldn't bring up old friends, he thinks. There's a weight to the next admission, not so much evasive as it is merely resigned at this point.] He's gone now.

[irreversal]

[ ...Ah. Shoko puts down her bowl, so she can reach over to rest one hand on Verso's shoulder. If she's able to meet his gaze, he'd find hers to hold the weight of sympathy and knowing in them. She's lost friends, too. (Smash cut to ghosties thread-) ]

...I'm sorry, Verso-san. It sounds like he meant a lot to you.

[ Someone he was able to have conversations about feelings with, especially. Even if it was spoken in whees and whoos. ]

[reverso]

[how this neatly ties into ghosties thread works so well in our favor...

His smile skews wan. She loses his gaze, briefly, drifting down to her hand.]

...Thank you.

[The guilt cuts through again. It always feels like a knife, but its edge is dulled, knowing that he might share a bit of it with her. Perhaps discussing his past isn't always so bad. Wei Wuxian might've been right about this honesty thing.]

It's one of those instances where I'd like to keep his spirit with me, that joy and strange way of looking at the world. Yet it's always easier said than done.

But hey, at least I've still got the "wheewhoo" thing down pat.

[irreversal]

[ She gives him a nod before pulling her hand away. ]

I think the "wheewhoo" thing is nice, but maybe I'm biased. There are days when it might feel easier to keep that spirit, and days when it won't. That's natural.

[ Shoko reaches over again, this time to nudge Verso's bowl a little before she lifts hers up again. ]

Hey, let's call this a drink in his honor. Two disgustingly huge drinks in his honor. That counts as "whee," right?

[reverso]

[Shoko... He appreciates her saying that, truly.

His smile returns, just a little quirk at the edges, and he lifts his bowl up with a nod. It sloshes perilously.]

That's a good idea. The biggest "whee" I've ever laid eyes upon. A toast to Esquie, then?

[irreversal]

To your friend.

[ she is not going to bother trying to pronounce the very french-sounding name. she clinks their bowls together just as perilously, and with that: ]

Whee.

[reverso]

[An official toast it is! They don't even spill any, even though it looks like for a second that they might.]

To Esquie.

Whoo.

[And he drinks, making sure to make it a good one.]