“Ok, so it says to gather the symbols, take them to the door, get the amulet…then take the amulet to the cave…”
She scratches her head.
“I am a bit confused, though. It mentions a ‘chosen one by the sky’, whatever that means…”
“Chosen one?” Casus speaks up.
The others also look confused.
“Good to know what to expect for the next one,” Amethyst says, going to help Denzel with the paint.
The new Casus looks over at the clone Hailey, then looks at the original Hailey.
“Uhm…”
Amethyst blinks, not knowing that it’s not the first Casus.
“Huh? When’d you get back? And where’s the person who went with you?”
That would be really cute though-
Dot blinks.
“Me?” he asks the twins.
“Well, I should try to get back to the others,” Isaac responds. “They’re probably worried. I’m not exactly sure where we’ll be going, but we were exploring a school.”
Yessei shrugs. “I had my time as ‘chosen one.’ Now, I’m just ‘cursed,’” she chuckles, mulling over the phrase “chosen one by the sky.”
Dak Phai takes note of Hailey’s comment before telling Denzel, “oh, definitely not a brush. More like a mini-fire hose.” She closes up the palm and pulls a tube out of the wrist. “Alright, paint me up!” She motions for a paint can to drop the end of the tube into.
Stardust sighs as she looks past the window. “You won’t believe me,” she begins, “but, where I’m from? They never moved past rotary phones…” She shrugs. “Now Dak Phai rigged up some kind of freaky ear-piece phone.” She shivers.
She sticks the end of the tube in the paint and aims her palm to the wall. Then she closes her eyes and… paint sprays out in a thin pattern like a fire hose and lands on the wall.
“Alright!” She fist-pumps, then calls, “hey, someone needs to spread this paint evenly!” Then she motions for Denzel to follow her along the wall.
no bc the way i cackle when i read this line.
“No,” Stardust insists. “Well, maybe? I don’t know. I just know it went in my ear and was very uncomfortable…”
“Trust me,” Ansi adds from a corner of the room where she’s detailing the windows, “She’s just a wuss. Noise-cancelling earbuds saved my life when I found out
about them.”
Yessei, unamused, waves her hand. “Glad to know it’s working at least,” she chuckles. “Can’t have magic without glowing light.” She shrugs. “I didn’t make the rules.”
literally my younger brother. made a killing in high school off it. got pretty good at it, too, as i understand.
But anyways… “Hey, that’s pretty cool!” She paints broad strokes across the wall. “I’m working on a sneaker project right now, actually. Less… tech-y than my other work, but I’m designing a shoe for athletes at my university. I could definitely use someone to help me paint them later.”
“I bet she’s thankful Yessei’s not a snorer,” Ansi laughs from the corner and Stardust’s face turns a deeper shade of purple as she sinks into embarrassment lol.
lol Yessei is way over here with Pryzgoda in another world, but uh… I can offer you freakish, godlike, beyond-death god of time instead? Or I can throw in Zak Gri (Yennei) searching for their mamas lol.
“Nice,” she adds with a grin. “I can see about getting the university to get you a stipend, too. How’d you get into painting shoes?” She takes a glance at him one more time, just to make sure he has no wings. “I take it you don’t do downhill gliding, huh?”
Stardust huffs before cooling off and sighing. “Anyways, are we almost done painting? Is there furniture to move in?”
Stardust, Ansi, and Dak Phai are in the house rn lol.
“Oh, it’s a Katla sport.” She thinks for a minute as she runs out of paint. “It’s like skydiving, I think? But there are hoops you have to drop through.” She shrugs. “Yeah, I get that. I tinkered with stuff to pass the time, too.”
“Great,” Stardust decides, heading outside and grabbing a chair.
I mean, Dak Phai is a really new character all things considered. She’s definitely never made an appearance in this thread lol.
But if Mr. Raven is bothering Ansi, she doesn’t like to be bothered, so she’s visibly a little defensive.
“Oh, baseball?” She struggles to remember the meaning for a moment. “Oh, yeah. I think Stardust’s pretty good at it, actually. And hockey.” She pulls out the tube and sets it in the empty paint can before pulling off her glove and popping it open. “I’ll have to show you the fields at the university. Regarded as some of the best in the universes.”
“Huh?” She sets down the chair as she processes. “Yeah, uh-huh, I can do that.” She hops over to help carry the box.
“Mmm…” She thinks for a moment, but she ultimately decides she’s feeling daring. “Yeah, sure. What did you have in mind?”
“You said you’re a student there or a teacher?” Denzel is such a sweet boy and I love him and must protect him at all costs XD.
“Cool. You know the difference between a flathead and a phillips screwdriver?” Hailey teases while backing into a bedroom. It’s bare with some torn wallpaper.
“Nah, I’m not that old, I’m a student,” she explains, “but I’m a lab assistant. I keep the younglings’ fingers out of the razor blades, as it were.” She shrugs. “Between having my own personal tinkering space and working for Yessei to make fill in the margins, I’m set for life, honestly.”
Then, she pops her gauntlet back into place and has a brain blast at the same time, lol. "Recently, the university is paying Ansi and me to go on a multiversal romp and compile a book, actually…”
“I certainly got my fair share when I was on building crew,” she mentions. “Are we gonna have to replace the wallpaper?”
