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[lifetothefullest]

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[evocation]

[She is mentally filing that away to demand the story later.]

do you eat people? kick puppies? leave the toilet seat up?

[lifetothefullest]

We already discussed by opinion on cannibals, no I love dogs, and no I'm not twelve.

[No matter how twelve he might look sometimes.]

[evocation]

cool
want to be roommates?

[lifetothefullest]

[Okay give him a second, he isn't expecting the offer; on one hand it isn't weird because he knows his version of Kyna and this Kyna is similar enough that he sometimes has trouble remembering that he's only known her a few days. On the other hand it is weird because he has only known her a few days, or more relevantly she's only known him for a few days.

He also just isn't immediately sure how to answer. Lance typically lives alone, and had at Hadriel, but that's more due to keeping his distance from people until he's sure he trusts them; he never had a problem with friends staying with him or staying with friends himself, or even being stuck on a boat with Nate for however long that whole expedition had lasted. That was all fine.

The situation here is also totally different than in Hadriel, where they'd just claimed a house and that was that. Here he has to actually pay for it, and find somewhere in the more traditional way, and that's all a daunting task made a lot easier by having a roommate.

So after about half a minute--]

Are you sure?

[Since she made the offer he's pretty sure she's sure, but part of him is still worried about her making an impulsive decision and getting into something she ends up not being comfortable with.]

[evocation]

yeah, sure

[Is this an impulsive decision? Absolutely. But she's lived with Craiglist roommates before, and in her mind, this is a far better option than that.]

is it weird that i'm asking?

[lifetothefullest]

No, not really, I just want to be sure you're offering because you want to and not out of some sense of obligation for a newbie or anything.

If you're sure, then yeah, that'd be awesome.

[evocation]

nah, there are plenty of newbies
i like you
plus if someone breaks in and tries to kill us you can kick their ass

[She assumes, because of the whole FBI agent thing.]

[lifetothefullest]

Well, thanks, but don't expect me to be a great home defense system.

[He can fight but he is absolutely not going to unless he totally has to. And he doubts it would be anything close to kicking their ass.]

[evocation]

don't you have badass fbi training?

[lifetothefullest]

Sort of. I'm a really good shot, but hand to hand fighting isn't my thing.

[evocation]

huh
and here i was thinking you were like luke hobbs

[lifetothefullest]

That may be both the most flattering and least accurate impression of me that anyone's ever had.

[evocation]

maybe i'm the sweetest person you've ever met
or maybe i'm buttering you up so you'll do the dishes

[lifetothefullest]

Wow I wonder which one it is.

Do you already have a place, by the way? Or do we need to find one?

[evocation]

nope
sorry
i've got a job though
so that plus our stipends should make it easier

[lifetothefullest]

Okay, no problem, just have to figure out apartment hunting in a new world.

[He should be able to do that.]

I should also try to find a job myself.

[evocation]

what kind of job do you want?

[lifetothefullest]

That's a question I should figure out an answer to.

[And that he doesn't have an answer is throwing him off a bit.]

I know what I don't want to do, which rules out my usual professions. I guess I would do something with music if I had a choice, but I don't think I can afford to be too picky at the moment.

[evocation]

why don't you want to do what you usually do?

[lifetothefullest]

I don't think it would be appropriate to try to give psychological advice in a world I'm not from, and I've heard working for the government is a very bad choice here.

[Both true reasons, but neither the main reasons. But the main reasons require a lot more explanation, and these work well enough.]

[evocation]

isn't psychology the same everywhere?

[She'd assume, anyway.]

[lifetothefullest]

To an extent, yeah, but unless I only worked with people like us who came from other worlds, there would be a problem of not understanding the situations the native population might be dealing with. I don't know about their cultural histories, societal issues, that sort of thing.

[evocation]

oh
yeah, i get it
are you a musician too?

[lifetothefullest]

It's more of a hobby, but I've had a music-related job here and there, so I think I can pull it off here as long as like, pianos still exist.

[Which he realizes could potentially be an issue.]

[evocation]

yeah, they do
it's usually just fancy places that have them though
but i guess that's the same as back home