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Who: everyone!
When: Day 6
Where: everywhere!
What: regrouping after the event

Well, the swarm is over and the queen has died. What are you doing now, friends?

Heading back to the boneyard to regroup? Staying at the queen's carcass to harvest meat and pearl things? Staying maybe to heal if you're banged up? Or maybe you're arguing with others over what to do.

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Oh right, too busy with your high school alien espionage stuff?

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What? No.

How does your mind even work?

Come on, you're so totally suspicious. You've gotta have a cool backstory or something. I mean...you're an alien. Your life has gotta be indefinitely more exciting than mine. [ And as silly as it is to suggest 'all aliens surely have exciting scifi lives", he really does think that compared to his life as a regular student going to regular school is much duller compared to everyone else here. They're all...adapted to this kind of thing. ]

[I mean, technically, he's not WRONG...]

"Cool backstory"...? What do you think I am, some kind of character in a holo?

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You've got the cool hair, face paint, and good looks. Why not? [ he couldn't resist slipping that last note in ]

Oh-- come on! You even touched them-- you know they're not hair!

Right, haha! Sorry~ I forgot the word. What was it again? Lickup?

Anyway, they're cute. [ You're cute ]

Lekku.

[She crosses her arms.]

And my markings aren't face paint.

Ooooh, tattoos? [ That's so gangster Ashla ]

No! They're markings! You know, something you're born with?

But they're patterns. Or they look like patterns. Can that sort of thing really be a birthmark??

It's different from a birthmark. They're closer to the stripes or spot pattern on some animals.

[ And yet she gave him looks for her loyalty likening to that of a dog.... ]

And everyone one of you guys has 'em?

[Look, it's okay if SHE does it.]

That's right.

So you're a whole species of good-looking people? Lucky! Man, humans must seem pretty boring by comparison huh?

... Why do markings make someone good looking?

They're cool! Or at least, they look cool on you. Back home those sorta things would mean you're in a gang though and you wouldn't be allowed in gyms or public baths.

... I don't follow. [As usual.]

Why are gang members not allowed in gyms or baths?

The same reason no one wants gang members at their house or school, I guess. They're dangerous and a pain to deal with.

Well... I suppose that's true. But that's no reason to deny them basic services. I mean, who's going to start a fight in a bath house?

....You've never met the Yakuza before, have you? They're the definition of attitude problem.

Lots of people have attitude problems! That doesn't mean you can just go around prohibiting them from service because you don't like them.

They also kinda do stuff like battery, assault, blackmail, murder, extortion, and loan sharking.

Sounds like the usual, then.

Pretty much! If mobsters showed up to a public bath you can be sure as heck no one would go there anymore.