crittersheep | BOAT: THISTLE

BOAT: THISTLE

[ You’re in a sleek, gilded reception room aboard a large and - aside from your team - empty ship. It’s full of fabulous kitchens (splattered with blood but still usable!) and ballrooms (full of instruments, all playable!) and glittering spires and stagnant-smelling but comfortable sleeping quarters. When nobody is using the intercoms to speak, a tune hums through.

Other than that, there’s thick mist surrounding everything, a path lit only by the ship’s signal light as it travels toward whatever it is you’re in search of and away from the home you can never return to. Waves crash gently against the hull, growing louder and fiercer as time goes on, and there’s faint wailing and howling in the distance…what is going on in this sea? Well, it’s not very important to you. What’s important is surviving.

You have a life to live. ]

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[she kind of makes a face,]

...I still think it's risky. But I'm fine going along with the majority.

[a lopsided smile]

Next round, I'd like to take one of your suggestions, regardless of what I think.

...Hopefully there won't be a disagreement such that that's necessary.

But thank you.

[. . .]

[bumps her shoulder gently with his own]

[That requires some leaning, his shoulder is like a foot above her shoulder

She blinks in surprise]

...What?

What?

Never been given a shoulder bump in camaraderie before?

...No??

[partially because everyone's shoulders are so far above hers. but not only because of that]

New experiences. . . I'm honored to have been your first.

I think you're a little young for me.

[oh my GOD]

[IMMEDIATELY A LITTLE FLUSTERED]

Oh, I'm-- I'm taken, anyway?? I didn't mean it like--??

Oh god. I'm sorry.

...I was joking. It's fine.

But how old are you, anyway?

[Part of this is also being made very aware of being shepherded by a Teen]

[WHEEZES. still a bit red, but he relaxes slightly]

Seventeen.

. . . how old are you?

Twenty-five.

[she is an ADULT with a CAREER]

[he'd make an old lady joke but NO THIS TIME HE WILL BE POLITE!!]

You're not that much older than me.

[less than ten years counts as "not that much older" apparently]