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Inktober 2023, giorno 6 – Clodsire/Golden
@terraiste asked:
❛ here, i noticed you lost this earlier. ❜
oh! looking at the sandwich in the trainer's hand, there was a bright smile on her face. she had been looking everywhere in her satchel around her neck for that sandwich.
"thank you so much! i would lose my head if it wasn't attached." and cue a laugh as she took the food from the other.
"Soooooo.... how's that guy you been seeing?" -terraiste
“ Hm…? Oh.” She rolls her eyes. “ Pinche cabrón - not even; es un chico. Dumped his ass. ” Snort, but she’s smiling in relief. Maybe she should’ve left only Rika to see her behind the veil. There’s no filter or feelings to keep in check. “ I think I mistook pity for affection. I need to stop taking in every sad eyed stray that crosses my path especially if it’s more work then it’s worth, you know? Wanted nothing more then something warm next to him in bed and food then preferred to tuck his tail in and limp back to whatever hole in the wall he disappears to when he’s got his fill. Nah.
Pobrecito. But I do hope he stops licking his wounds long enough to let them heal. You should’ve met him if he stayed around long enough.” Probably would’ve given him the side eye but can’t say she’s curious. “ Saddest eyes you’ll ever see…but they were awfully cute.”
Another chuckle and she suddenly looks over to Rika with a pout.
“ I lost my telenovela buddy. That’s the saddest thing about all this. ….Think you wanna give my latest binge a chance? Hmmm? For me? Pleaasse?”
@nickitsden asked:
“ you can talk to me about anything. you know that, right? “ - @terraiste
meme i forgo n lazy
' almost. '
A quiet thought echoing right after. It wasn't caught on her lips, the starlight in her eyes or through the calm of her facade. Despite how sudden it was her composure was focused always; more so when it was touching on something ... tender.
Rika instead will only see her warm smile and a hand bashfully come up to her cheek.
" There's no one I could trust more then you. Goodness knows I probably bore you with my ramblings, dear. I probably tell you too much if anything. " Not a lie either. While she had her innermost guard up even to her, all other facades were open. No one knew Geeta like Rika does or will ever know. It's why she wouldn't dare concern her. " You have a right to stop my oversharing. I think you were absolutely bored out of your mind yesterday when I recounted all eleven seasons of Fuego Fuecoco y Corazon in like...two hours. "
❛ you look like you could use a hand with that. ❜ -terraiste
@terraiste
The question is enough to make a once focused gaze to whip around, head turning so that she might look over her shoulder. From outside looking in, perhaps the boxes held in the heroine's arms might look a little too heavy for someone of her stature. For that observation, Serena cannot blame-- even if, in truth, it is nothing out of her comfort zone. But the one who asks, why they match a description given to her by other champions. She must be one of Paldea's Elite Four.
And so, what the blonde offers is a smile, warm and gentle.
"O-Oh, um... some help would be nice, yes,"
It would be nice to have some company, she thinks, for getting these boxes of documents into storage and properly filed away-- the remnants of yet another inter-league meeting. A quicker way to get the job done, no doubt, and to network just that tiny bit more with one Serena gets not an often chance to speak to one-on-one. A nod towards the box at the top of the stack ensues, corners of pale lips turning upwards.
"Thank you. I hope it is not too much, though..."
❛ excuse me, i think i’m lost. ❜ -terraiste
@terraiste
The stranger looked away from the sight of the western coast, finally drawn out of the spell that had kept them there for a while. One would think that a person might tire eventually when standing in place so still and quiet, and potentially you'd be mistaken for a phantom with how much you might as well not seem like you belong in this place.
This was not Paldea. Or to be exact, this wasn't part of the Paldea Rika knew. It was more a kind of pocket dimension that would immediatly fold back upon itself and disappear, once the ground type specialist and the stranger would leave. Nothing about this beach denoted it to be any different from the regular beaches around the circular region. Not yet, anyway.
The stranger regards the newcomer with brilliant golden eyes, a little surprised to find someone here. They'd not expected anyone but them to find this place, but here she was, and here they were.
They smile, a gentle but somewhat isolated phenomenon.
"I can imagine so." they finally exclaim, a voice as though from far away. "I'd not expected to find anyone else up here. The beach is a little further down, if you seek it."
The obliviousness was an easy role to play. One that did not leave as much risk for discovery, should the stranger come across another person by accident.
"Or have you perhaps been looking for someone or something else, Miss...?"