video/text: un: saccharine

[stickyfingers]

[The video startup seems pretty normal at first, until you realise that a certain freckled ginger isn't actually paying any attention whatsoever to the camera. He's sitting on one of the saloon beds, taking inventory of... snacks. Cookies, candies, fruit--even little wrapped bars of chocolate. He's talking to himself about something about 'not having enough for such a long trip', and it's only then that he realises that his bracelet is flashing with some... sort of irritating light.

He frowns, a look on his face that's pretty offended as he moves to put a hand down over it, and the video cuts off for a second, only for the screen to flip instead, to text.
Were ALASTAIR's clever little (magic?) bracelets not programmed with a thought-to-text function, it might be alright, but of course--Gaius has pretty poor luck, so instead:]

Just what I need in my life, weird gods-be-damned enchanted jewelry making eyes at me when I'm in the middle of something important.

[Someone really has no idea how these things work, being from the dark ages is utter bullshit with all this new tech.]

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[stickyfingers]

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He gives his head a small shake, a laugh escaping him as she replies. She really was a good kid, and he knew she probably shouldn't be learning anything off a thief of all things, but...
Hey, it was a different world. He could make a different impression on the people here, separate from who he used to be. It was a good chance to make good after all the bad he'd done in his life, so... why not start out by helping out a girl who'd lost her toothbrush and was displaced in an outrealm far from home?]

No problem, kiddo.

Being a fast learner is the most a guy can ask for. I promise once you learn how to do proper tent knots, you'll make a tent faster than any of the people here on the team ... 'Audentes', was it we were called here?

[onethousen]

[ What does it say when he's one of her least concerning instructors... she's learning self defense from Anakin Skywalker. But she takes people at the value they introduce to her, making her own judgments and being a forgiving young woman precisely because of the life she's realised she's been living for a while now.

She's got to be. ]

Yes, Audentes! It reminds me of pasta for some reason.

Thank you. I'll be the best student I can. I'm getting pretty good at being a good student in all kind of extracurricular activities!

[ There are no curricular activities. It's a kind of sad statement in its own way. ]

[stickyfingers]

[At the rate Chihiro was going, she's either going to be some sort of saint. Accepting teachings from people of all sorts of different walks of life and not quite caring.]

Pasta, huh? I can see where you're coming from.

I'll catch you later, then, kiddo. See if I can't rustle up some real supplies.