day 14, fiddlesticks ; video from sleeper 6

[blitzcheer]

Hey everyone, how you doin'? I'm Tidus. Been here around since the last stop, and I know there's gonna be another one soon, but I've been itching to ask: What did you do for fun in your worlds?

Back home, the biggest entertainment was Blitzball! Two teams goin' up against each other underwater, giving it all they've got to score the ball in the other team's goal! [ He's grinning, excited even to share that. ] That's a simple way of putting it since I can't start showing everyone how to play, and I wanna hear about your guys' fun.

So? What did you do? It doesn't have to be just sport. Did you have videogames? Arcades? Did you have fighting competitions? Draw? What do you do now? I wanna hear what people are into!

And hey, if you ever want a partner for one of the ball games they have here, hit me up! I wanna try as many as I can. Can't do it on my own though!

Comments

[sensitiveapple]

[ She sniffs. ]

A Courtesan does not swim. A whore, a druggie, or a streetwalker might, having to take jobs and go to a client, but a Courtesan the client comes to.

[ She frowns. ]

Oh! And a Mistress might learn at the behest of her Patron, but no. I do not swim.

[blitzcheer]

[ Okay, so feeling like all plausible deniability is being lost here. He looks uncomfortable, slow to know what to say. ]

So when you were talkin' about anatomy and...

[ And pleasures of the flesh. ]

That's the kinda stuff you're training for? [ A breath, and-- ] How old are you?

[sensitiveapple]

[ She cocks her head. ]

Thirteen.

[blitzcheer]

S-seriously?

[ This is not what he expected to come out of his hobbies talk. ]

Hey, if anyone comes looking for you for that kinda thing on here, don't give them the time of day, okay? They can get their pleasures of the flesh elsewhere.

[sensitiveapple]

Yes? I'm thirteen. Life Day will see me at fourteen.

[ She shrugs. Then she stares at him. ]

I wouldn't do it anyway? I won't until I'm sixteen.

[blitzcheer]

Great! [ ???? ] That's three years to learn...all kind of new things!

[ Something else that doesn't include banging! ]

You ever had anything you're interested in? Outside all that?

[sensitiveapple]

Not really? I read a lot of history for my lessons. It helps with cultural understanding, after all.

[ Nope, she's fine with what she'll grow up to be. ]

[blitzcheer]

Then I guess learning new things while you're here isn't outside of that, is it? I wanna learn too, [ he adds, a truth despite what other intentions there are in saying it. ]

About the worlds people here come from, what they do. What new things I can do. I can't go back to blitz... but I'm still pretty young! There's gotta be something we can get out of being stuck here.

[sensitiveapple]

Well, no one knows if we remember our time here, if we go home. So, I dunno if it would be worth it.