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[ Once you enter the Escape Room, a series of messages pops up on your phones: ]

TOTAL⚓DISASTER: Wellll it looks like Naffy's out of commission? It'll take her awhile to reboot with how hard she just got hit by the autocensor!
TOTAL⚓DISASTER: Whatever you did, it really made her mad! Haha!
TOTAL⚓DISASTER: Anyway since I know what's going on now, I'm happy to help! It looks like the nature of the threat is a gang war between an evil thought sealed and another that you all and your fans helped to return to the world of the not-so-living? Wild!
TOTAL⚓DISASTER: In case you didn't get the memo, this means you're going to explore the combination WcDonald's and Damned Queen's Cookies!
TOTAL⚓DISASTER: There you'll find something you're looking for, probably…? But mostly you're looking for a way to contain the outbreaks!
TOTAL⚓DISASTER: And fortunately, we've received a message from a friendly entity known only as "The Borger King", who apparently has a stake in the downfall of Lonard's lost empire…
TOTAL⚓DISASTER: It says:
TOTAL⚓DISASTER: There is a war going on for your mind. Steal their secrets. Create the Ultimate Prankburger. The king awaits. Salvation will come.
TOTAL⚓DISASTER: Wow! It looks like it's time for corporate espionage, or something?
TOTAL⚓DISASTER: Anyway, you get to keep everything you find, unless it's a dolphin! That's mine.
TOTAL⚓DISASTER: Better get going! Charge!!!!!

[ And then everything goes white... ]

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Mm, I'll be fine. Just might need to drink a bit now and then until it clears up. [ Canting her head into his touch, both for status effect reasons and because she always finds touch comforting. ]

Does that mean grabbing some drinks before I drag you to bed? [ Look, subtlety is never her strong suit, and right now she's especially disinclined toward coyness. She idly toys with his hair as she talks, scrapes his scalp and the back of his neck with her nails. ]

Venti too, he said he'd help once he recovers his body, and I think he could probably use some attention. [ Dying twice, that's gotta be rough. ]

[ hnnn his breathing hitched a little ] [ Shit timing, Ice Queen, he's just reiterating that. ]

Heh. Wouldn't say no. [ To the drinks, but also to help. ] Hopefully he'll be able to handle us.

[ This is sort of a joke, because sIV and their technically infinite stamina, and sort of genuine, because Venti's not in good shape. ]

I have faith in him. He's a force to be reckoned with at any size. [ Yes she knows Venti's hurt, this is her trying to be positive and hoping the sentiment's catching. ]

How bad is it? [ The effects, she means. (Judging by the way she leans closer to brush against him and her gaze keeps dipping down to his mouth, hers is pretty bad. The bloodthirst, that's a little less so, probably because she just had a drink.) ]

[ His smile twitches a tiny bit. ]

And I mean, he's not even that much smaller than he usually is.

[ He'll try to keep it light with her. ] [ And then wow he sure is looking away. ]

—Nothing I can't handle, but I'd be lying if I said I wasn't hoping to get out of here sooner rather than later.

[ He'd feel slightly less uneasy if he was sure he was thirsty for water. ]

[ Hipchecking him a little ] Be nice.

[ She can't quite tell why he's uncomfortable, so she sighs and steps back, sliding her arms off his shoulders. And is suddenly cold again, but maybe cold is better than too warm? ]

Sorry, I'm probably not helping. I'll behave -- I'll try to.

Who's not being nice? He's a perfectly good size either way.

[ Wink. ]

[ And immediately chafing his arms for warmth, because it's worse right after you were fine. Okay, that's — going to be really inconvenient when he'd like to be helping organize the heal-and-revive efforts a little. ]

...Depends on what you mean by 'helping'.

[ He's just— ] [ Pauses for a moment, thinking, then admits: ]

I'm not used to being this easily — distracted.

[ She frowns at his attempts to warm himself, instantly regretting pulling away. She's less affected by things like temperature normally, so it's annoying but not intolerable -- though maybe if she goes without touch for long enough, it might become so. ]

Ah. [ Understandable, she supposes. She's so free with touch and affection, and so often guided (or misguided) by instinct that she tends to accept feelings like this fairly easily, even if they're not her own in this instance. It's stuff like sofaform that she struggles with -- when her feelings are stunted or blocked. (Maybe she'd have trouble with what's happening if faced with someone she wasn't already attracted to...?) ]

Anything I can do? [ Go away is an acceptable answer here; they can meet up later when there's no reason to hold back. ] I'd suggest taking the edge off, but... [ seems like that'd be more a tease than anything since where could they even go? ]

[ Yeah, the chafing does nothing, but that's fine. He'll adjust in a minute and then just be uncomfortable. ] [ Lupine snorts, but not without fondness. ]

Not here.

[ He refuses to need a cottage! Refuses. ]

I'm sure we'll be outta here soon enough.

[ But he is edging a little closer to her despite himself. ]

[ Well, fair enough. She's stubborn herself, but not about this -- it's not something she gets shy or embarrassed about, so why start now? It's a little funny to her, how not bothered he was by her reaction to his wing effect, when right now she genuinely would think he's sort of a prude if she didn't know better. ]

[ She looks faintly amused at his inching, then just slides over to stand more at his side, holding his arm. Better? ]

I'll make it worth the wait, promise.

[ Yeah, this is — different. During the Setsubeans endgame, he just wanted to. Could've tuned it out completely. He is especially sure he wouldn't have been nearly as interested if there had been people dead and dying around them. He does not like that he keeps feeling this impulse to rake his eyes down her body or drag her into a hungry kiss when Lark's like three meters away and bleeding. Don't worry, he'll enjoy it a lot more once it's no longer so desperately inappropriate for the moment. ] [ But he absolutely leans into that touch, and the shivering stops.

Beat. Crooked smile for her. ]

Oh, no doubt.

It might be best if we head over to Venti's room, just in case he needs some healing when he reverts. Yeah?

[ It's a small bed, but she doesn't plan for there to be much space between any of them. Even Lupine will need to make with the snuggling given the need for body heat (which she's only mildly sorry about wanting to take advantage of). ]

[ In the meantime, her hand rubs up and down the inside of his arm. She's restraining herself enough but she's not made of stone. ]

[ .......................and maybe for other reasons? Maybe for other reasons. ]

—Yeah. That works for me.

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