AUDIENCE FOR: Butt Strife

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[reconnective]

[a glance at meow wow who has at least settled enough to stop being a crazy bouncy ball.]

Probably. I don't think I should leave him behind if he can help somehow.

[skyagain]

[ well. in that case. he looks at meow wow seriously ]

... You take care of him, alright? [ nods towards sora ] He gets into trouble a lot.

[reconnective]

[cloud...

meow wow, to his credit, looks at him with his big dopey eyes before there's an affirmative squeak.]

What, so you're both ganging up on me now?

[but he looks touched.]

[skyagain]

He knows I'm right. [ pets the meow wow for being a good both agreeing and pretends this wasn't a sentimental thing!! ]

[reconnective]

You're both traitors! And I was gonna actually give you your dinner and everything.

[is he talking to meow wow or cloud? yes. he is aware it was maybe sentimental and he's respecting cloud's privacy of not pointing out he's a good friend.]

[skyagain]

You'd starve your own Dream Eater? Wow.

[ he is aware it could also be for him, but also, ]

[reconnective]

[rolling his eyes, he takes a cookie out of his pocket and holds it out to meow wow who rollypollys everywhere before sora tosses it down.]

He knows where all of his snacks are. He pretty much feeds himself most of the time now.

[skyagain]

Explains why your room is so full of dog treats everywhere.

[ it's a joke. he knows it's (partially) because of edgeworth. ]

[reconnective]

He likes to play with those ones more than eat them, which is probably good because I don't know if Edgeworth will want anything out of his room when the contract term's actually over.

[skyagain]

[ looks at the room and then back at sora and decides to not mention The Mess ]

Unless he brought anything over I doubt he cares that much about some dog treats.

[reconnective]

[also looking at the room...]

Well...maybe not. But all of the books and notes and stuff are his. So maybe he wants those.

[he's a jock, he doesn't know how nerds work.]

[skyagain]

... Maybe. [ he also does not know how nerds work. but it makes sense. ] He brought a lot of stuff here then.

[ SO MANY BOOKS AND NOTES...]

[reconnective]

It's almost as bad as Aquarius, but at least these are sort of more organized...Edgeworth left us a lot of notes about the guests and everything so we knew what we were getting into. Plus maps of the hotel and stuff.

[skyagain]

He's the kind of guy who goes in overprepared, huh?

[ maps... ]

[reconnective]

Almost too much. My brain's been hurting for the last couple of months trying to make sense of it. [bad!!!]

But it was a little helpful. Knowing about how different people were. And what to expect of the hotel.

[skyagain]

But only a little.

[ he says it wryly, like he knows it was probably more than a little helpful. he pats sora's head which is not affection and 100% because he said his brain's been hurting so he is making fun of him!!! 0% affection who would believe it at this point ]

[reconnective]

It could've been worse. I could've had to pretend to be somebody like the guy Estelle knows, or the guy with no personality.

[this is obviously not affection from cloud at all but there is affection from sora because he leans into it. hee. cloud has to deal with this now.]

[skyagain]

The guy with no personality...?

[ he does not know which one this is because he did not talk to all eight of them. he doesn't have the emotional strength.

he is also not acknowledging sora leaning into it. but he's also not like, immediately removing his hand either. shhh he's stoic ]

[reconnective]

Cetus. [sagenodding like that means anything. but he's still leaning into the hand like an idiot.]

...we all had to learn to play pretend pretty fast. We didn't have a lot of time for mistakes.

[skyagain]

Right.

[ i guess cloud is just petting sora like a needy dog now. this is happening. ]

You all did pretty good for that time limit. Undercover work's not my thing. Not sure I'd have managed it.

[reconnective]

[you say this as though sora isn't a needy dog in the first place.]

I didn't think it would be mine either, but the stakes were a little too high to even think about messing up. So it just meant we had to try even harder.

[skyagain]

Pretty sure if it wasn't for that memory stuff, no one would've figured you out. Maybe you can turn your hero work into spy work later.

[ sora would never and he knows it. ]

[reconnective]

I still haven't figured out why that happened either, but...it's a little funny since I never knew it was you until your memory stuff in the Realm, too. [it's not funny that's just sad. but he makes a face.]

What would I even have to spy on anymore? [cloud wasn't serious and yet.]

[skyagain]

Difference is, I didn't know that was me either.

[ ha ha. memory junk. and he shrugs ]

You never know. Maybe you could spy on that guy in the black coat.

[reconnective]

[he's about to say something like "yeah, and then you weren't even the cloud i knew" but he's immediately derailed...]

...you think? That might not be such a bad idea. If he already knows me, he might expect me. But...

[this wasn't a real suggestion, and yet!!]