exsilium | 005 ¤ [video]

hope it hasn't been reappropriated

i can rereappropriate if it has been
eta 20 minutes

how much you wanna bet

[ what are we doing with this thread ]

let me hold on that

[ she's going travelling across town to knock on your door, because she wants to see how badly anything has potentially been reappropriated before she answers that question. knock knock, tony, she's not even going in the back how polite is that.

i believe we talked about her noticing emotional differences now that he's back? ]

[ oui yes we did he is a little less buoyant, not really any more despairing - he's if anything more resigned to this place the second time - but he's missing someone. and he was missing her before but doing a good job not letting it hit the surface too often. this time however, same person, her loss means a lot more to him, at least on some level. it always meant a lot. but, he's having a harder time keeping it tamped down from someone like her. he won't look any different, but he'll have a different sense or feel to him. beyond that he's JUST got back so he's stressed right now but not too bad. ]

Did you seriously just knock?

[ the stress is the first thing to really come across, but it's still unmistakably Tony, so that's good. no imposters or whatever. her face is very blandly innocent as she looks at him. ]

I said I would. Can't break a promise.

[ no impostors. aside from all that ~vibing, the only difference is that his hair is shorter again and his goatee is technically a beard now. ]

Points for you. Totally didn't remember that. C'mon in then, mi almacén triste es su almacén triste. [ moving back in, come in, come in, it looks basically the same, he's just working on a few different things now. ]

I'm assuming that's some variation on my house is your house, but I never learned Spanish. [ or any other language, actually. if you don't count computer languages. she follows him in, glances around at the new projects, doesn't touch anything. yet.

huh yeah his hair is shorter. And she's mildly curious about precisely how long he was gone for in his time, she'd be sorrier about the slight glancing in she's doing as she can through his shields but - well, she's been considering it a valid use of her empathy since she got here. Stranger in a strange land, use what you've got. ] And I remember things. You've got new projects going on.

[ It was, so he doesn't really feel the need to translate it. Close enough.

And yes, one of those new project is already back in his hands when she points that out, and he tilts his head a bit in acknowledgement. ] New ideas, implementing them on some of the other projects that were in the running, over lap, improvement. [ Always ahead, always forward, always, always, always ] You made anything interesting in the... what was it, a week? I was gone?

[ Aww yes.

She glances at it, considers the shape of the missing person in his head and then quietly chooses to keep that to herself. There wouldn't be any particularly good explanation for saying 'sorry you had to leave people behind at home'. At least not that specifically. ] It sucks they let you go home and then dragged you back anyways. [ Though she'd be glad, herself, probably. She thinks. ] About a week, yeah. And not particularly. I went exploring mostly.

[ Probably for the best - that would flip him out a little bit, considering he's been gone for a year and doesn't remember the full on extent of whatever he learned about her abilities during that one single chat they had about them that one time. A year ago. He'd just shut the topic of conversation down and move on anyway. Sort of like he does to that one, where he shrugs a bit, one shoulder moving up in a mockery of actual emoting. What can he do about it? And besides, he doesn't want to be without Pepper but it's not like he would be so callous as to actually wish she were stuck here with him. ] Exploring? Where?

[ Yeah, pretty understandable. Really, the whole empathy thing isn't a great conversation starter at the best of times, and she'd rather not accidentally mess up whatever quasi-friendship can work together well thing they're doing. Which would also be why she is more than okay with him moving on past that. She's extended her sympathies, emotions can now be done with. ] The city, mostly. There's a lot of empty space on the outskirts, ruins and all that. It's interesting.

[ oh thank god someone who doesn't always want to talk about feelings

which is kind of hilarious because empath but also makes a whole lot of fucking sense because empath ]

Yeah? What'd you find?

[ Feelings are totally overrated, and yeah, as an empath she is in every way allowed to say that. Because it's true. They make a lot of mess and trouble for everyone. ]

Not a whole lot of use. Some cool hiding places, a few things that could be useful, mostly a lot of abandoned buildings with a lot of not useful but interesting stuff in them.

We oughta take a stroll down through there, see if two pairs are better than one. Could be fun.

Could be. There were a few things that looked like they could be useful but were pretty big.

A change of scenery is just good anyways.

Yeah, you'd think.

Well, you've had a fair amount of change of scenery, but mine's been staying pretty stunted, so.

The more exploration the better, really.

Wanna make a date?

I'll have to check with my scheduler.

[ is that even a word ]

Just let me know.

[ it is now ]

Oh, wow, would you look at that, I'm not doing anything for the foreseeable future because I got stuck in the future.

Yeah, sure, let's make a date.

[ he is genuinely going to have to think about that sentence later because if you're in the future you clearly must be doing something in the future but if you're in the future then it's not really the future, is it

this is the kind of thing he pretends to not be as nit-picky or unabashedly nerdy as he is except when you're this cool, you don't have nerdy interests, you have totally legitimate scientific and eccentric ones. ]

Does your 'scheduler' have a specific time in mind?

[ she'd actually be quite pleased if she knew that he was going to think about it because she enjoyed that sentence it was fun.

uh huh. ]

Doesn't really matter to me. Whenever's good for you, you're the one who just got back and has to settle in again.

[ he hoards things to think about later. there's a steady stream that needs to be digested and if he finds stuff in his chipmunk-cheeked brain later on when the foraging gets rough then it's just that much better for everyone involved ]

Means I have a pretty open calendar. [ And, please, he'd really like to fill it. Things to occupy the time. ]

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