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venus{A} venus{A} "Have you ever been in love?"
venus{A} Elora snarfs her soda, and then shuts her eyes tightly as the bubbles painfully shoot up her nose. A second after her sinuses clear, she opens her eyes wide again and responds. "What?!"
venus{A} venus{A} ducks away rapidly, and by the time Elora has recovered, is a good distance away "What was THAT?"
venus{A} Elora "I... snarfed my soda."
venus{A} venus{A} reapproaches slowly. "You what? Is that stuff dangerous?"
venus{A} Elora "What? Oh, no no no, just... it went up my nose because... you surprised me. That's all."
venus{A} venus{A} lowers herself onto the bench, glancing over at elora, "So have you?"
venus{A} -
elora swallows hard and pauses for a moment.
elora "That's... complicated."
venus{A} smiles wryly, "Oh?"
elora "Well. Um. It's... kind of?" Elora winces. "That was a long time ago."
venus{A} looks solemn for a minute, then looks down. "Oh... you don't have to tell me." she says softly. "I don't mean to pry. I just thought..."
elora fumbles a little and almost spills her soda. "Oh. Well. It's okay. It's fine. Really. It's fine."
venus{A} "I mean, I thought you might want someone to talk to.
elora blinks.
venus{A} plays with one of her braids, still studying her feet. The silence grows.
elora looks kind of awkward.
venus{A} looks around, grabs her soda, and sips it.
elora "Well, um."
venus{A} "The... weather. Is nice. Today." She looks up at Elora and smiles the tiniest bit, "Isn't it?"
elora nods, and smiles a little bit. "It is."
venus{A} "So." She smiles a little more. "I guess we should... what were we going to do next?"
elora decides to finish her soda, then looks back and forth. "That's a good question. My, uh, lesson plan for the day seems to be finished." She looks around briefly.
venus{A} looks around as well. "Yeah, um.. Thank you for the lesson."
elora smiles a little more. "You're welcome. We can have another sometime soon, hopefully."
venus{A} "Do you want to go find some whiskey or something?"
elora "That'd be... great."
venus{A} smiles again and stands, "Do you know any good bars? Or would you rather go back to the manse?"
elora "There's a great place run by a sea god called the Bloody Stump."
venus{A} "Is there a story behind that name?" She waits for Elora to lead the way
elora "I've never asked."
venus{A} "I'm not sure I want to know anyway."
elora nods at the gruesomely painted sign as they approach the tavern. "Probably not."
venus{A} eyes the sign for a second, then grimaces and looks ahead. "I hope it's nicer on the inside than that person was."
elora swallows. "It has... better... whiskey..."
venus{A} laughs, sort of. "well. That's just excellent!" she says brightly.
elora walks into the bar, a rather... down-to-earth establishment. Thick smoky haze crowds the air, and the sticky leavings of drinks and blood coat the floor and some of the coarsely whittled wooden stools that line the bar. The amorphous shape that is Kujo-ran tends bar.
venus{A} relaxes a little as they get into the bar. It's not so different from the ones back in Nexus, aside from, the.. bar...tender.
elora "Two firewhiskeys, neat, please."
venus{A} takes her firewhisky and sips it cautiously.
elora It's hot!
venus{A} "You people name your drinks literally don't you!"
elora downs her glass in one gulp and puts it back down on the bar, then grits her eyes as she swallows.
venus{A} licks her lips, then imitates elora's technique
elora "Good, isn't it?"
venus{A} breathes out slowly, blinking. "Amazing. Firewhiskey you say?"
elora nods. "The nomads who live in the deserts south of Gem make it. Takes six years buried in the sand to age properly!"
venus{A} licks her lips again. "I have never tasted anything like it. Six years... the only kind I've had before, aside from the kind I got you, was well... I think it's made from camels or something horrible."
elora "Camels?" Elora makes a face. "That sounds gross."
venus{A} chuckles. "Yeah, well, it was cheap and it got you drunk pretty quick."
elora nods, and swirls her second glass of whiskey absent-mindedly.
venus{A} rubs her finger around the rim of her glass thoughtfully. "Not quite as quick as this, though. I feel a little warm already."
elora blushes and downs her second glass of whiskey, gritting her eyes a little harder this time.
venus{A} takes a breath, then downs the whiskey, feeling it burn its way down her throat. She slams the glass down on the table with a grin and glances at her companion. "How many more til you're under the table?"
elora grins. "How many fingers do you have to count on?"
venus{A} holds up ten, and tucks two down
elora "Can you make it?" Elora holds up nine fingers.
venus{A} laughs, "Try me. I got more than my good looks from my Father."
elora drumrolls on the bar with both fists and grins broadly. "Kujo!" She shouts. "Line us up with a Cinnabari Firewalk! Eight here, nine there." She looks over at Venus challengingly as the bartender's numerous pseudopods pour out lines of glasses for each, followed by a tiny green-and-blue shot at the end of each.
venus{A} laughs, "Well you certainly know how to line em up." She takes the first shot and knocks it back.
elora watches Jade knock it back, definitely a little impressed. "Alright, we're even now. Ready for number three?"
venus{A} "Always." She wipes her mouth with the back of her hand, and pulls her braids back away from her face. She lifts the shot in a toast.
elora lifts her glass as well. "What are we drinking to?"
venus{A} "What aren't we drinking to? Life, love, and the pursuit of happiness."
elora smiles a little bit and nods. "And may Creation live to see another day." She clinks her glass to Harmony's.
venus{A} nods in return, and pours the shot down her throat. "Creation has nothing to worry about."
elora downs her shot with her eyes closed.
venus{A} squeezes her eyes shut and lets out a long breath, cracking one eye open to look at Elora. "Mmmm. I can't feel my lips anymore. Can you?"
elora pokes Venus's upper lip quickly with one finger. "Yes."
venus{A} giggles. "I didn't feel that either."
elora bursts into giggles.
elora "We're only three down, Harmony!" She scoops up another shot in her hand.
venus{A} slowly reigns in her laughter, and grabs another glass. "So much further to go. But it's so much fun!"
elora looks at her shot for a moment. She opens one eye wide while shutting the other, and stares at Harmony through the side of the glass for a few moments, then downs it.
venus{A} catches elora's eye for a second before matching her, and slamming the shotglass down enthusiastically.
elora "Mmmmmmm." Elora closes her eyes and savors the feeling for a moment. "Warm."
venus{A} licks her lips, touching her finger to them. "Mmm yes." She sighs softly. "I like it. Ready for the next shot?" She nudges one towards Elora and picks up one herself.
elora raises it enthusiastically. "Am I ever! To..." she stares at the shotglass for a moment. "To new friends," she says, and puts back the shot.
venus{A} "To newww friends!" She tips her head back and pours the liquor on in.
venus{A} wipes her eyes, "Cinnabarraris are awesome."
elora slams down her glass -- a little forcefully -- and scoops up the next right away. "Damn straight!" she says as she chugs the whiskey.
venus{A} laughs. "Showoff." She follows suit, and then grabs the next one, swaying a little.
elora also picks up her seventh shot, and holds it in the air. "Lucky sevens!" she says, and giggles again.
venus{A} clinks her shot against eloras, "To getting lucky. In everything you do."
elora blushes, then throws back the shot.
venus{A} blinks "Oooh that one hit hard."
elora "Alright, we're in the home stretch here," she says, gesturing to the six shots of whiskey -- and two chasers -- still on the bar. She grins mischievously. "Think you can hack it to the end?"
venus{A} puts her hand on her chest dramatically, "If I pass out, will you take me home?"
elora blushes again. "If I have to."
venus{A} lifts the eighth shot and grins. "That's so very nice of you."
venus{A} drinks and slams!
elora follows suit!
elora screws up her face for a surprisingly long time, and grips the side of the bar with one hand. "Hooooo-eee."
venus{A} snorts and starts to giggles again, slapping the table
elora chuckles a little bit too. "What's... what's so... funny <snort>"
venus{A} "I..." she collapses into giggles, letting her forehead thump against the table for a minute... "I don't know!" she gasps.
elora stares at Venus for a second, mouth agape, and then bursts into uncontrollable laughter, her one hand slapping the bar quite vigourously while the other grips it for dear life.
venus{A} picks up the ninth shot, dipping her tongue into it experimentally, and licking her lips. "This... is the best bar... ever."
elora "I know!" She picks up her own shot. "Isn't Kujo just the best... bartender... ever?"
elora The pseudopodded bartender nods curtly in Elora's direction.
elora "I think we can do it!" Elora says as she looks at her glass. With her free hand, she pokes -- after several false starts -- at Jade's face, and then looks slightly crestfallen.
elora "Uh oh. I can't feel your lips anymore either."
venus{A} "Kujo... strrrong name... I likkit." She smiles at him, then grins as Elora pokes at her lips, making a little attempt at biting her finger. "I thiiiiink.... you missed." She reaches out waveringly and swipes her finger at Elora's lips. "It's like this."
elora goes... "Oh." She crosses her eyes trying to look at Jade's finger pressed against her lips, but otherwise seems to be frozen in the headlights.
elora looks at the shot she's been holding, tipping her head to one side and then the other, and finally: "Bottoms up!" She giggles and downs the shot.
venus{A} smiles, and runs her finger along elora's lip for a second before withdrawing. She joins Elora in the ninth shot, almost snorting it out her nose at her comment.
venus{A} chokes a bit on the shot, and tips forward with a little groan. The shotglass hits the table and rolls off.
alsoquin swings her arm wildly to one side, and her glass drops to the floor.
venus{A} "You...dropped your glass." she observes from the small puddle her chin is in.
elora "Well... jusssh onn leff," Elora says eloquently to her companion at the bar.
venus{A} sticks her arm up, lets it fall to the table and scrabbles around for the last glass. "To Lalora." she announces and tips her head sideways so she can pour the last shot in.
elora "To..." She fumbles to find the glass, and when she does, locks it in an iron full-fist grip. "To Hhhrmny." She pours the drink straight down her throat, though a little dribbles over one side of her mouth.
elora "Tha.. woo!"
venus{A} grins hazily up at elora. "woo, hehehehe"
elora giggles.
venus{A} "Thishss's strong stufff."
elora "We godda... we godda finish up. The chasers!" She points to the tiny shots of blue-green liquer. "Therre... therre eassy." She makes a "piece of cake" face as she points wobbily towards them.
venus{A} "Chasers, lookout theyre chasin yoo." she says, and laughs as if that's the funniest thing ever.
elora "HAHAHA!" Elora's eyes almost pop out. "HAHAHAHAHA!"
venus{A} pounds the poor abused table, sending the chasers jumping and rattling the empty glasses
venus{A} "ohgods." she gasps. She grabs the shotglass and holds it up to Elora's face unsteadily.
elora "Eek!" Elora's arm jerks out to protect the poor chaser -- spilling part of it on her hand -- and she holds IT up in front of HARMONY'S face.
venus{A} giggles and with exaggerated care, tries to aim for Elora's lips. "oh lookit it's gotchoo!"
elora points her own chaser over at Harmony with her own stifled giggle. "Yours gotchoo first!" she says, and tips it into the other woman's slightly open mouth.
venus{A} sticks her tongue out to catch the liquor. "ONOES it gotme!"
elora grabs the lip of the other glass with her teeth and tips the liquor down her own throat.
elora The chaser is a cool, refreshing limey-mint taste that soothes away the harsh, burning sensation left behind by the fire whiskey.
elora giggles again as she swallows. "Wediddid!" She announces triumphantly
venus{A} "Yesh! We're the chaaaampionssss." She lurches forward, to put an arm around Elora's shoulder, and makes it, more or less, her vision growing blurrier.
elora "We shudd..." she says, staggering to her feet... "We shudd probly try to get home."
venus{A} struggles to her feet, swaying, leaning against Elora. "mmm home. your place or mine?" She giggles.
elora blushes again. "Well... myplass IS closer..." She reaches one arm out to support Harmony, and blushes deeper.
venus{A} smiles and blushes herself. "I like yer place. Iss nice."
elora puts her arm gingerly around Venus' waist and starts to shuffle out of the Bloody Stump.
venus{A} puts her arm heavily around elora's back, leaning against her. She lets elora guide her, concentrating all her energy on not falling over.
elora continues blushing the whole walk -- stumble -- back to the Rock of Ages, where she drags Harmony to a couched foyer on the first floor.
venus{A} "Are we home?"
elora "Yeshh." Elora lets Venus slump over onto the nearest couch.
venus{A} "ohhh good. I'm so... drunk!"
venus{A} sprawls on the couch.
elora sits down next to Venus and looks extremely mortified.
venus{A} "wha's wrong lalora?"
elora swallows hard and scrunches up her eyes before starting to slowly speak. "Harmony.... I...."
Bishop The doors fly wide open, hinges shrieking, doorhandles clattering against the walls. The Bishop erupts into the room, steel-clad and imperious, pointing accusingly at the couch with his free hand, brandishing a spear in the other!
venus{A} shrieks and clings to Elora
Bishop "YOU! ELORA! YOU THERE, OWNER OF THIS HOUSE! ...d'you have any flour? I was going to bake a cake, but apparently no-one has kept my pantry stocked during my century of Hell-Leave."
elora "BEETLEFUCK!" Elora is astonished by the sudden entrance!
elora blinks three times, very... very... slowly.
venus{A} "Cake?!"
elora "There's... some flour in... the pantry..."
Bishop booms! "SPLENDID! I WILL BE SURE TO DROP BY TOMORROW AND SHARE THE CAKE WITH YOU!"
elora stands up quickly and brushes herself off. "That... that sounds... great."
venus{A} sort of falls off of Elora, looking disappointed.
Bishop "I CONCUR!" The Bishop lowers his spear and his accusing finger and marches past them both into the next room, and beyond, continuing to boom, but fading. "YOU! You there, servant in this house! ..."
venus{A} adjusts her (two) layers of gauze.
elora "Well..." Elora looks at Venus for a rather long moment. "I... had fun..."
venus{A} smiles shyly. "Me too."
elora "...Goodnight."
venus{A} "...Elora?"
elora "...yes?"
venus{A} "I... uh." she stutters a little. "...goodnight..."
elora "Goodnight."
elora starts to lean over to give Venus a... hug.
Bishop "ELORA!" The Bishop explodes into the room again, "THANK YOU FOR THE FLOUR! I WILL SEE YOU TOMORROW! VENUS, IT IS NICE TO SEE YOU TOO!"
elora almost hits the ceiling with the surprise.
venus{A} falls off the couch
elora "Yo...you're welcome, Bishop."
Bishop waves, and somehow even the wave seems to echo in the room.
venus{A} gives Bishop's departing back a truly evil glare.
elora walks over to the door where he's standing, waves slightly to Harmony -- still over by the couch -- and heads upstairs for her own room.
venus{A} sighs and pulls herself back up off the floor, onto the couch, watching elora disappear.
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