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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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Only if people knew they were mobsters...

...? That's what the tattoos are for.

I don't get it. Why get tattoos, then?

It's their way of announcing what they are to people. People see the tattoos and know not to mess with them.

But it gets them banned from places...

Yeah, but it's got other perks I guess. Otherwise no one would do it right?

Well, if you say so.

I won't pretend to understand how thugs operate...

That makes two of us.

[ Inui sighs and leans back a little. ]

I should've asked Lance how long his face was stuck while I was teasing him about it. This sucks. [ "Should have asked how long it lasted," not "should have been nicer to him when it was happening." ]

Wait, what?

You didn't know? Lance kissed one of the bugs and his face went numb♥

Eugh. Gross! Why?

They're probably poisonous. I can't feel my legs. [ Because Lance kissing them totally isn't the part she was asking about ]

No, I meant-- why would you kiss a bug.

[ ~~for the vine~~ ]

Well, we were trying to see if we could teach them any tricks...

[Just. This look.]

[ That is the look of someone completely and totally impressed with them, he's sure of it ]

Hey! We weren't trying to teach them that... I mean, I dunno. Maybe he's into that? But he looked pretty sad with his face covered in drool after.

... You two are so weird.

Guilty as charged.

Wanna help me move a little? My butt hurts from sitting.

Sure. But only if you can manage to not be weird about it.

I'm paralyzed from the waist down thanks to alien bug bites, things are already weird. [ But he grins anyway. ]

No weird, promise♥ [ Only gloating to Lance later when he gives Inui a hard time about this. ]

All right.

[She pads over and picks him up easily, carrying him bridal-style.]

Where to?

[ And too his credit? He doesn't loop his arms around her! Just one arm around her shoulder blade to brace himself as he looks around.

Dead Queen to one side, giant sinkhole on the other. ]

Some shade'd be nice. How about the hole? It's not gonna cave it or anything right?

I hope not. ... Are you sure it's a good idea to go down there in your current condition, though?

It'll be better than being out in the sun roasting. I'm exhausted... I could use a nap. Or five.

... Well, all right. It's your call. Here goes nothing.

[Andddd JUMP down we go.]