⇨ THE EPILOGUE

[ringleaders]

Who: Everyone!
When: Day 61
Where: The Carnival
What: After all the rescues team return, it will be matter of tending to the wounded and getting the hell out of dodge. The Ringmaster can handle the fleeing part, but someone will need to look after those in the medical tent. Or, maybe, you just want to show up and ask what the hell happened.
Warnings: Some messed up consequences of faerie fuckery.

IN REPAIR↴ As the minutes tick past, all four rescue groups will eventually return. Everyone in the carnival is encouraged to help out, ensuring that the rescues and victims both are taken care of after the fact. You can tag in here as rescuers taking care of business around the carnival, victims recovering, or other workers checking in to see what's going on. This log is for general aftermath threads, made by anyone.

Comments

[mirrortide]

'Yeah, well. Apparently it's not my thing." Lapis responds, clearly grumpy. Not that she hasn't been grumpy since things have settled, but you know. "Shouldn't you be with Steven right now? Or Peridot? You like them better than me." She sounds a little mean while asking, but she is actually curious as to why she's bothering with her.

[drrdrrdrr]

"They're asleep," says Amethyst pragmatically. "Anyway, I like you fine, even if you're kind of a buzzkill."

[mirrortide]

"Huh." It doesn't sound like Amethyst likes her when she calls her a buzzkill like that, so Lapis doesn't exactly take it at face value. "And you're bothering me because there's no one more interesting to. Got it."

[drrdrrdrr]

She shrugs again. "I dunno, some of these other guys might be more interesting. I just wanted to see how you were doing. I mean, I figured you'd be doing crappy, but, y'know."

[mirrortide]

"You're not exactly far off the mark." She's still definitely surprised that Amethyst has chosen her to bother out of all possible other options in the med tent."But now you know just how great I'm doing, so why hang around?"

[drrdrrdrr]

"Uh," says Amethyst. "I dunno, we like, never talk, so I figured maybe we... should?"

[mirrortide]

"You... want to talk. With me." No offense, Amethyst, but Lapis can't really wrap her head around why, and she looks dubious at best. "Why?"

[drrdrrdrr]

"Well... y'know, Peridot and Steven both like you a whole lot, and they've got pretty good taste."

[mirrortide]

Lapis puts her head into her hand, and still manages to look utterly unconvinced about Amethysts intent. She didn't care about her when she was in the mirror, after all. Which is a long time ago now, but still. At the very least, she doesn't mention that out loud. "So you'd only talk to me because they do."

[drrdrrdrr]

Amethyst raises her eyebrows, and stops being a cat. "Yeah, actually, dude, you kinda act like this all the time," she gestures to all of Lapis, "so I probably wouldn't bother if you weren't coming with some sweet testimonials."

[mirrortide]

Hah. She knew it.

"Well, sorry to say but you're absolutely right. There's not much point in talking to someone like me." Especially since Amethyst wouldn't care about her otherwise. That much is obvious. "You should go back to Peridot. I'm sure she'd like your company more than I would."

[drrdrrdrr]

Amethyst rolls her eyes and makes a fart sound with her mouth. "Okay, but she'd also like your company a whole lot, so shoot me for bein' curious."

[mirrortide]

Still unimpressed, Lapis looks around for a few seconds, spots a glass of water, and promptly uses her powers to shoot beads of water at Amethyst. With the same force that someone might flick water off their hand at someone with, which is to say, it's probably more done as a joke than anything else.

[drrdrrdrr]

Amethyst is taken completely by surprise, and one of them gets up her nose and makes her snort explosively; her eyes are watering a little when she pushes the back of her hand over her face, but she's actually smiling.

"See, this is what I'm talking about. Can you do that with soda?"

[mirrortide]

"Of course I can." That's 100% not the reaction she was expecting, but she can deal with it. "Why, you want a demonstration or something?"

[drrdrrdrr]

"I mean, if there's any soda in here, sure," says Amethyst. "Why, you wanna give one?" She sounds a little skeptical, honestly.

[mirrortide]

"I have literally nothing better to do." Especially since Peridot is adamant that Lapis remains here until she's looked at and given the okay to go. "So if you go find one, I could."

[drrdrrdrr]

Amethyst taps her chin. Talking to Lapis is proving pretty dang uncomfortable, but... This definitely sounds preferable to just hanging around worrying about Steven.

"Sure, okay," she says.

She's back about ten minutes later with an armful of soda cans, some of them from worlds the Carnival's stopped at where what passes for soda isn't safe for human consumption.

"Hup." She dumps them onto the floor of the medical tent. "Okay, so, I was wondering -- can you still move the soda around while it's inside the can?"

[mirrortide]

Honestly, Lapis isn't expecting Amethyst to come all the way back after she leaves, but the fact she does doesn't exactly put her off any. Truthfully, Lapis doesn't mind that much. She's not Peridot, Steven or even Pumpkin, but the distraction is nice all the same.

"I don't see why I wouldn't be able to." It does, however, take her a moment to find the liquid in the can with her powers, and it does take a little more effort to lift it than it'd take if it were, say, outside the can. Which, floats up, though the can around it kind of wobbles unsteadily, since that's not what Lapis has control over.

[drrdrrdrr]

"Sweet!" says Amethyst. She watches the can wobble for a moment... "You think you could try lobbin' it, like, right at my head?"

[mirrortide]

Lapis gives her a look. Peridot and Steven would be mad if she did, wouldn't they?

Lapis gives it three seconds of Serious Thought, before shrugging, and lobbing the Soda at Amethysts head.

Full force.

[drrdrrdrr]

Amethyst takes a quick step back, braces herself, and catches it in her mouth. She wasn't quite prepared for how hard and fast Lapis flung it, though, so the force of it hitting the back of her mouth sends her reeling backwards, crashing into an empty cot, and leaves her lying on her back tooting soda out of her mouth like a bubbly fountain.

[mirrortide]

To be fair, Lapis thinks this is exactly what Amethyst wanted. So she doesn't even bother asking if she's alright, she just kind of. Waits for her to get back to her feet.

[drrdrrdrr]

This isn't exactly what Amethyst was anticipating, but she absolutely isn't complaining. A second later, still lying on her back, she lifts an arm to give a thumbs up, and then she sits up, swallowing the crunched can.

"Holy shit, dude, you really beaned that thing!" She looks delighted.

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[mirrortide]

"... Wasn't that what you wanted?" She asks, finally, because Amethyst's words make her wonder a little bit? She did say to throw it at her...