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[ The bar is unit-colored with light unit paraphernalia, although it's all just for show. Fortunately, comfort isn't part of the unit aesthetic this time—all seats are cushioned, whether the booth seats or the bar stools, comfy and lush. Idols can sit anywhere they like, it seems.

There's alcohol available, but everything else is locked behind the wall-cabinet. . . the recipe book is also available to peruse at one's leisure.

Ah—the door opens, and a fuzzy sort of shade steps in. It looks like idols will be serving the Damned, today. . . ? ]

RECIPE BOOK

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Ah. I see. Goodness, that's a lot of possibilities.

Sorry this is a cafe now, we only serve coffee.

The other recipes aren't to your taste, huh.

I mean I could do it, but it doesn't sound as fun.

You sound like you have ideas.

Anything's a secret if ya try hard, after all.

--unless ya want this ta be our secret?

[brandishes an empathy ribbon]

[ exaggerated shock ]

Is this how you're confessing your true feelings?

Only Saff-nee will know ♥

[Hands her one end]

[ takes the other end. ]

Ready when you are, Pink-kun.

[Ties the ribbon around his wrist. 'Pink-kun' isn't as cute as 'Pajko', mild disappointment--testing one two!]

[ testing testing we're online

mild interest. also, she's just having a good time. this is fun. ]

[IT'S FUN FOR ONCE. Pink's gonna purposely project affection at her! It's surprisingly honest. He's also not on purposely projecting a bit of nostalgia but]

[ honestly—

well, that's not surprising, and she's not surprised, exactly, although the note of nostalgia is; she's going to, in turn, purposefully project her own genuine fondness back at him.

and if maybe a little loneliness gets in there that's not on purpose but that happens. anyway like none of that shows on her face. ]

Shouldn't we be holding hands again for this?

[He is surprised, but it's like he's always a bit surprised to learn something positive (toward him) is real even if he would have already been able to identify it logically. His affection turns a little less aggressive and maybe a bit more rueful.]

Ehe, should we? A teenaged boy's mind can be a dark place ya know!

[ playful, bemused: ]

Ah, yes, handholding is extremely lewd. Pardon me for suggesting it, Pajko.

[A little offended (affectionate)(still)! How dare she read him?? Even though they're emotion sharing???]

[OFFERS HER HIS HAND (threatening)]

I mean I don't mind it...

[ teasing (affectionate) (menacing)

she takes his hand. ]

Of course I don't mind. Think chaste thoughts.

I thought this was a confession.

[Part of the charm of the situation was to say one thing but be feeling something else, but like, if you tell him to think chaste thoughts they're automatically going to wander a little--he has a lot of firsthand experience with empathy bonds in intimate situations to call on. There's a sense of his thoughts brushing against that: the sort of purposeful Awareness exercise of noticing a pleasant sensation when her hand slides over his... but he pauses internally and draws back--his attraction up til now has been mainly play and theatrics, but...]

I only want confessions with pure intentions.

[ she's not flustered to realize there is actually some substance to this, because she's very rarely actually flustered, but she's clearly a little startled, in a guilty kind of way? possibly in a deep existential dread kind of way? ]

[...it doesn't cross over the edge it was hovering at after all.]

Wow my intentions're always pure, in one way or another!

[Whatever substance was there dissipates the same way it was called up. He squeezes her hand though. Is that reassuring? Possibly it's obnoxious. Everything is getting quickly replaced with Big Nosiness (that's definitely an emotion).]

[ it's a little reassuring. there's a little irritability creeping in, though, in direct proportion to the nosiness. (nosiness IS an emotion.) ]

Do you say that to every girl?

No way, ya can't tell from my sincerity?

[Irritation just like makes his nosiness (affection)(winning) Increase--though on the plus side they probably need words to actually sate his curiosity and they're not doing that here. Part of him is certainly like 'nooo don't be maaaddd'--like an opposite wavelength that splits and meets and cancels out.]

[ exasperation (affectionate), fondness (derogatory). fine, fine. ]

Buy me dinner and I'll be more convinced.

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