she nods a little at all that first bit, hands still in her jacket pockets, but - he claps her on the shoulder and says what he does, and it startles the shit out of her! she jumps, blinking at him, like - what? what was about her? she did in fact miss it, and she has to scramble to think about what it is that he said. meeting the right person at the right time? he meant her?
well. that's funny, because she has never been in the right place at the right time in her life, ever. but he tells her this with such ease, jostling her, friendly and warm, and she looks at him like he said something insane. the sky is green. everybody has two heads.
he leaves her there in the doorway with her mouth open like a stupid, until she manages to shake herself back to reality.
vi has... no idea what to do with this, to be given that sort of thing. she wonders if it means as much to him as it does to her, to hear. after a moment, she stutter-skips after him to the bar, and then - sorry, she really should be cool about this, but it is not possible (especially at her canon point my god). she grabs his wrist, and looks at him, expression almost searching. ]
You can't mean that.
[ not an accusation, not upset, just... disbelief? what did she do that got him in her corner? people don't do this. they leave her. ]
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she nods a little at all that first bit, hands still in her jacket pockets, but - he claps her on the shoulder and says what he does, and it startles the shit out of her! she jumps, blinking at him, like - what? what was about her? she did in fact miss it, and she has to scramble to think about what it is that he said. meeting the right person at the right time? he meant her?
well. that's funny, because she has never been in the right place at the right time in her life, ever. but he tells her this with such ease, jostling her, friendly and warm, and she looks at him like he said something insane. the sky is green. everybody has two heads.
he leaves her there in the doorway with her mouth open like a stupid, until she manages to shake herself back to reality.
vi has... no idea what to do with this, to be given that sort of thing. she wonders if it means as much to him as it does to her, to hear. after a moment, she stutter-skips after him to the bar, and then - sorry, she really should be cool about this, but it is not possible (especially at her canon point my god). she grabs his wrist, and looks at him, expression almost searching. ]
You can't mean that.
[ not an accusation, not upset, just... disbelief? what did she do that got him in her corner? people don't do this. they leave her. ]