networkinthenight | [audio] @mollymauk; [open]

[We open to the sounds of fiddling with his tablet.] Fuck- she showed me how to queue this up, but-

[Suddenly a melody begins to play, which nearly startles him. By the time, he collects himself, it’s already stopped and he queues it up again, and then repeats it on loop.] Right, so that is something I got from one of our gorgeous guests from a couple weeks ago. I went looking to see if I could find myself another adventure, because as lovely as you lot are, I get restless when I’m stuck in one place for too long, and this is what I have. Now it’s not exactly a location or even a hint at a location, but she said, and I’m quoting, “That’s all you’re getting until the tablets have GPS functionality.”

[He clicks his tongue] I assume that’s… a very complicated way of saying “until we get a map.” [You can practically hear him shrug it off like it's not any big deal.] Anyway. Has anyone heard anything like this anywhere? And which of you arseholes is bored enough to go on what’s either a wild goose chase or some sort of awful trap? Bound to be exciting either way.

[Come on, you know you wanna join him in some shenanigans.]

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I did promise to bring you with me next time I did something insane. Not that it was my choice last time, but still.

You did and I am going to make you keep that promise because I need a little more excitement in my life.

( and he kind of wants to forget what happened with elena and robin too. that's still weighing on him. )

Hopefully it'll be exciting and not just me getting fucked over by a beautiful person. I'd respect Pluto for it, but I'd still be disappointed.

Oh, don't worry. I'd protect you.

( he's a great bodyguard when he wants to be.)

[Cheeky] Please pretend you can see my graceful swoon right now.

Oh, I'm definitely imagining it. But, I expect to see a real one too.

( don't let him down and all. )

If we see any spirits bigger than I am, I might have to. I need to see if playing dead works on them.

[He has no idea how big the Bishop even was since he was BLINDED, but he assumes it must have been huge.]

You're going to try playing dead with sometimes vicious forest spirits?

( you had some balls on you, molly. )

[deadpan] From my experience, they prefer to eat you when you're still alive and literally kicking.

Which you would be. Pretending to be dead does not mean actually dead.

( were you really going to risk it, molly? )

You're using logic to get me to not do something I thought you wanted me to do. How's that fair?

[Cheeky McCheekster over here.]

I want to have fun but not at the expense of something nibbling on you for fun.

( he wants you in one piece, molly! )

That's fair. We don't want any of that on this adventure. I want a respectable amount of exciting and as little death as possible.

Besides, if someone's going to get to nibble on you, it should be me.

( #shameless. )

[Molly snorts.]

I'd say not in front of the rest of this adventure, but do as you like. They can deal or they can run off without realizing it's an open invitation.

[He's even more shameless...]

Tempting.

Hopefully you're not just saying that because I'd be quite sad.

( oh so sad. )

I say a lot of things, some of them are even true. Anything that makes other people uncomfortable is definitely true. You don't back down from something like that or people'll stop being affected by it, and then I'd have no fun at all.

So, is that a hobby of yours? Making people uncomfortable?

People who deserve it, anyway. [Molly flails his hands over himself.] All of this may be for the sake of my mirror, but tieflings already tend to make people uncomfortable, so why not just lean into it and make them have to look, and think about their biases. Or at least give them something to really be uncomfortable about.

And then, sometimes you find people who'll lean into it right back. That's always fun.

So, what am I?

( inquiring minds. )

Do I lean into it?

[Cheerily:] With gusto. Every time.

That's the nicest thing anyone's ever said to me. I guess we can still be friends who flirt and go on possibly risky adventures together.

( how lucky they both are. )

I'm a nice person. And I'm glad to hear that. It'd be such a waste to lose such a good relationship in such a small place where good relationships are hard to come by.

Well, I'm honored to be considered a good relationship.

( he smirks. )

Even if I sometimes enjoy being bad.

If a person doesn't, then they're not someone I'd want to know anyway. You, my friend, are an ideal.

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