puppycrush2 | week two

Kat and Minami have been sent to... a cute little cafe!

It's a Fr*nch cafe, which means the food and pastries are delicious, and there are all sorts of drinks and treats to try.

And you can sit either outside or inside!

Highlights:

- savory and sweet food is available!
- the weather is perfect for sitting outside if you choose
- peaceful vibes, lofi music

[The vibes are peaceful, but Kat is here trying to suss out more of Minami's intentions - not just in playing the game but his goals afterward.]

Were you lying about liking sweets, too?

[Her feelings might still be twisted by the betrayal. If the fortune was a lie, then repaying Minami in sweets should also be forgiven... but maybe coming to a cafe like this is enough to count it as an even trade.]

[ sorry he can't hear her because as soon as he realizes they've come to a place with his favorite thing in the whole world, he's rushing forward in unadulterated excitement. ]

Parfaits!!!!!!!!!!!

[ he was not lying about liking sweets at all. ]

[(I guess that answers my question...)

For once, Kat isn't the one running ahead or getting excited about delicious food. Both her sweet tooth and her appetite have probably been obvious enough in the house. She's having trouble working up the joy she would normally feel seeing so many treats in one place.]

How did those get to be your favorite?

I just tried food until I found what I like the most! How else do you find out if you like something? [ he's ordering a giant delux strawberry parfait with extra whip cream.

it's been so long since he's been reunited with his beloved. ]

[That is... actually surprisingly normal. It's so normal that Kat almost freezes when she gets up to place her order, eventually stumbling through a request for a crepe. Extra whipped cream sounds good, however subconsciously, and it ends up as part of her order, too.]

I guess that's how everyone does it. Maybe I figured you always knew what you liked. [Not just because he's a demon, but yeah, also because of that... Whatever that means. Kat hasn't really met any.] You just seem so confident.

I didn't even have a name when I came into being, you know. I just picked Minami because I like the way it sounds! [ but she's right, he is confident. that much is innate. ]

I think it's that how most people come into the world... And I just got my name a few months ago! But it suits me... so I guess yours is the same way!

[She doesn't know if his name has any additional meaning; hers is fairly obvious, given the black cat that trails her everywhere she goes... but she's still sure she had another name, once, that she's now forgotten.]

You had parents didn't you? Demons don't. [ he'll grab his parfait in all of it's whipped cream glory and go to sit down. ]

The first part of my name means charm and bewitch, but I learned that after.

I mean, I must have.

[It'll be lost on him, she knows now - feeling a little sheepish that she let herself talk to him about her missing memory last week in the first place. Would her parents be looking for her? Even trying to think of something like that, she has a feeling...there's a reason they wouldn't be. It oils straight off of her mind, and she tries to focus on watching them prepare the food behind the counter.]

It fits you, so maybe you were always meant to pick it! You were never a baby then, either, I guess...

Hehe, thank youuu~. [ a rare sincere thank you that he can say without choking because he's proud of his name! ]

And nope! I'm young for a demon but I'm not old which is probably why I fit into this group with you.

Does time pass differently for you? At the bottom of the World Pillar, everything is so much slower than up in Hekseville. I was only down in Botoume for a few days, but a whole year had gone by in town...

[She's gabbing a little bit, but there's an earnest reasoning behind him. She's trusted that Minami isn't going to sabotage their game for now; she's holding onto that sincere thank you like a reassuring lifeline. He couldn't be more different, but Kat's trying the best she can to understand him, whether that means common ground or not.]

There's a time difference but not really? When it's night in the living world it's day in Hell.

[ this is actually canon and I have no idea why. ]

Is the bottom of the World Pillar what you call Hell?

No, it's nothing like that! It's kind of... the deepest down you can go from up above. ... But it's not a very nice place. There's a deep void beneath it, and time moves so, so slowly down there.

I wanted to see how far down I could go, but then I got stuck. [A lot of things happened. A lot of time passed.]

Is that why you agreed to join this show? To get unstuck?

[ cause it's half the reason he did... ]

No, we got out... It was a whole thing.

[It's how she and Raven became friends in the first place, really, and how she learned so much more about the world than she ever realized. The world, and the roiling dark sea down beneath it.

Kat goes to pick up the order from the counter and sighs, sitting sprawl-legged in the chair.]

The kids that were down there, though... they're trapped in the Ark we used to bring them back, sleeping.

So wake 'em up.

[ sorry his brain is small... this parfait is good though! ]

That's the plan! [She responds brightly, even to that occurrence of Minami logic.]

It's all locked up, and we can't get back in the way we did before. It might just take a wish to get back in there.

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