The Fish

[dishevelment]

Who: Anyone around Pride HQ
What: A weird fish has popped up in the lobby
When: After the South Vista Music Festival
Where: Pride HQ
Warnings: Carnies and MÄNTICORE




[It popped up one day without warning-- a little fish asking for money in order to live.

What are the folks in Pride HQ going to do?]

Comments

[iitrebel]

I'm easily bribable. Want me to get you some shit next time I'm out?

[Easily bribable and, frankly, Pinkie is one of the people who's tolerated him the longest. Usually he's only this amiable with Tooru.]

[sailorlaughter]

Oooooh! Totally! I'll bake you cookies too, as a tip!

[iitrebel]

Deal! [Cackling, he reaches down to scoop up some more spare change.] With sprinkles?

[sailorlaughter]

Sure, if you want!

[iitrebel]

Trust me, I want.

[He can't stop laughing. It's just too surreal. Making a deal to get a girl some skinny jeans in exchange for cookies while they're stealing spare change from a water fountain.]

[The world is a beautiful place.]

Alright, I think we've almost cleared this one out.

[sailorlaughter]

Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeah, probably!

[Pinkie leans down to scoop up a few stray nickels.]

What kinda wishes do you think people made with these?

[iitrebel]

I dunno. [As he clambers out of the fountain and starts squeezing out the water from his pants, he cocks his head curiously.] You do this? What kind of wishes did you make?

[sailorlaughter]

I dunno, I don't really carry change around much. [She pokes through some of the coins in her open palm.] I guess if I was GONNA...

...I might wish for Sayaka to call again.

[iitrebel]

[The name rings absolutely no bells but, for once, Artolo's brain holds back on any general jackassery.]

Sayaka? That a friend?

[sailorlaughter]

She used to be in our band, but she got fired. Nobody's heard from her since...

[Pinkie tries not to think on it too much. But it's still weird, right? Sure, she'd have to give back the phone and the email and everything else from Pride, but it's not like any of their contacts have changed. Why won't she just say hi?]

[iitrebel]

Oh.

[Mentally, his brain freezes. He's shit at comforting people, which is why he generally avoids it as much as possible. Right now, however, there's no real escape, and it takes his mind a minute to come up with something suitable.]

Maybe shit's just real busy for her? I mean, job market and junk, right?

[sailorlaughter]

Yeeeeeeeeeah...I guess so.

[Pinkie's been through all these options already, but she seems to appreciate the attempt.]

Maybe she went back to school or something. She's still pretty young.

[iitrebel]

Oh yeah, school. [That completely left his mind. School just seems like such a non-thing in his brain for some reason.] Maybe she'll get, like, a degree in something and come back into the business that way.

[sailorlaughter]

I guess. How long does that take, like two years?

[She knows college is a thing that exists, but......]

[iitrebel]

I. Uh. I have no clue.

[He's not sure why college was never really something he considered.]

There's, like, different levels to the degree you can get, right?

[sailorlaughter]

Yeah?

[She's also a little unclear on the workings of College.] Like, you can go for more years to get a better one? And then eventually you're a doctor! Or a professor!

[iitrebel]

Yeah, like that! [Probably. How do you even college? It's a mystery.] What do you think they even do in college? Like, does it seriously take that long to learn stuff?

[sailorlaughter]

It doesn't SEEM like it should? Like, I can't think of ANYTHING I took THAT long to learn!

[iitrebel]

Maybe, like... [Ugh, what's a hard thing?] Like, super fancy cooking. Swans out of ice and shit. That takes a long time, right?

[sailorlaughter]

Oh! Yeah, that would take a really long time, I bet. I don't think I can make a swan out of anything!

[iitrebel]

Isn't there, like, that paper folding stuff people can do?

[sailorlaughter]

Ooooh! Yeah! I don't know how to do that either...but it's really really really neat, isn't it?

[iitrebel]

It has to be way easier than making one out of ice.