one. [vidya | action]

[yourlastdance]

Well hello, City. [Inigo is seated at a table at an outdoor café, the device propped against a salt shaker. He gives the screen a smile and a tiny salute.] I do hope I’m using this thing correctly, otherwise I’m about to feel at least ten degrees of stupid in the very near future. But it pains me to imagine such a pretty girl would steer me false! Even if she did seem a bit preoccupied…I don’t necessarily object to brisk treatment, mind, but the details are everything.

[ TEA BREAK. This tea is delish.]

Now, where was I?

[Pause. Pauuuuuuuse.]

Ah! My name is Inigo. It isn’t often that I find myself whisked away to strange new lands with nary a warning- and by often I mean mostly never, and by mostly I just mean never. Unless time travel counts.

Regardless! [Gosh, this tea is so great.] I could use some company, and there must be a lovely lass out there who wouldn’t mind a cup of tea with old Inigo?

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[mortemscintilla]

[ (No, wait, that's not a 'Li' reaction.) ]

[ ......../CRAIS!!! ]

Um.

Yes. I guess so. [ A nod. Big firm up and down. ] Yes. It was. So sneaky and secret, I didn't admit it to anyone. Not even myself. [ Sarcasm, sir. Dost thou speak it? ]

[yourlastdance]

[YOU PEOPLE AND YOUR SARCASM UGH JUST STOP IT!!!!!!!!!]

I might've known. You look like the sort of person who would hide sinister motives behind a benign expression.

[mortemscintilla]

[ BUT IT IS THE ONLY SALVATION OF THE EXTREMELY BORED!!! ]

I would. But my kindergarten teacher told me I'm the stupidest boy who ever walked the earth, so. Chances are slim.

[yourlastdance]

[WHATEVER MAN]

Stupid and shy are too completely different animals!

[mortemscintilla]

Unless it's. One of those hybrids.

A bastard child of shy and stupid. [ ... ] Stushy? Shypid?

[yourlastdance]

[blink. blink. blink. snort.]

Should my friend Gerome ever grace us with his ridiculously masked presence, I will send him your way first thing.

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[mortemscintilla]

[ Masks? Masks? What's this about MASKS? ]

[ He's the only one who gets to wear masks!! ]

[mortemscintilla]

[ I mean - ]

...Is there something wrong with this Gerome fellow?

[ ... Besides masks because everyone knows masks = issues... ]

[yourlastdance]

[MASKS WILL ALWAYS = ISSUES FOREVER]

Oh, more than one thing! Why, I'd waste reams and reams of paper if I were to attempt to describe every detail. But I think a conversation with you might fix him.

[mortemscintilla]

That... doesn't sound very flattering by implication.

[ Because he might be stupid but he's not... ]

[ Yeah. Okay. He is pretty stupid. ]

[yourlastdance]

Why, I hold your skill in the highest regard!

[mortemscintilla]

Th-Thank... you?

[ Yes there is a big red question-mark hovering in the air. An interrobang even. ]

[ ~(‽‽‽)~ ]

Ah! I-I don't think I've introduced myself yet. I'm Li Shenshung.