GODLY AUDIENCES - TAKAOMI SHISHIMARU

[divus]

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[divus]

[there are fish down there

don't throw one at her





or do, that would be funny]

[bakaomi]

Hey, Fortune, come here.

[divus]

Huh? Okay...

[she heads over... this is probably a bad idea]

[bakaomi]

[ he lifts up a catfish ]

[divus]

...

[pats the catfish on the head]

[bakaomi]

...

[ it wiggles ]

[divus]

...

[She's going to crouch down and cup some river water in her hands to poor it over the catfish so it doesn't dry out...]

[bakaomi]

...

[ it flops more and leaps

into the air ]

[divus]

[did that catfish just yeet itself into the sky

fortune stumbles back a few steps, startled, and stumbles back into the riverbank]

[bakaomi]

[ unfortunately, fortune falling over grabs all of his attention so he looks down at her

and does not notice the fish coming back down and

landing on his head

before falling into the river again ]

[divus]

[GAHKJFKAHFHJGKHJG

Fortune doe not seem to know whether to laugh or be worried. She springs back up to her feet and looks from his head, to the river, and back to his head again.]

Did that really just...?

[bakaomi]

...

Please kill me.

[divus]

Don't worry, I won't tell anyone what I just saw.

[she'll remember it, though. it will make her laugh.

she holds out her hand to him]

But, um... maybe that's our cue to get out of the water?

[bakaomi]

[ ah

he takes her hand. ]

Yeah, let's go.

[divus]

[Out of the river they go! She glances at him, considering.]

...you should dry off pretty quick, if you stay in this wing. The sun's warm here. [...] But I think I can dry us off faster if you want?

[bakaomi]

How?

[ is it magic ]

[divus]

Like this.

[it's definitely magic

Fortune raises her free hand and a moment later, a soft, warm breeze stirs around their feet. The wind can dry them off, but she's checking to make sure it doesn't freak him out first.]

[bakaomi]

Cool.

[ he is decidedly not freaked out. ]

[divus]

[WELL, IN THAT CASE.

The wind picks up speed as it rises around them, but it's still warm. By the time it's done, they're both more or less dry.]

Is that better?

[bakaomi]

Uh huh.

Useful trick.

[divus]

When I was younger, no one was ever able to figure out how they'd see me swimming one minute and then see me completely dry on the other side of town five minutes later.

[She sounds amused, remembering that.]

They just called it another one of my strange powers and let it go.

[bakaomi]

You really are a menace, aren't you...

[ he glances back at the river, then at fortune. ]

Though it's not really a bad thing.

[divus]

It makes life more interesting!

[So, yeah. She does not take "menace" as an insult at all.]

[bakaomi]

[ he snorts ]

... yeah, that's something a menace would say.

[divus]

[she giggles]

Is that a hint that I should stop menacing you until next week?