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[ he nods. good to know. ]

And she told you we're trying to find someone from Shadows?

Yeah. I guess we know one now, but so does everyone.

Right, but I don't want to put too much pressure on him after that because we all know. It's safer to find another one.

It’d be great if people would stop acting like I’m gonna frog march him over to the bonfire and interrogate him in front of the camp.

How’s that going for you? Finding another person.

...Who said you were going to do something like that?

[ ????? ]

Lili found one. I don't know who, but apparently they came to her.

Referencing we now know one is usually followed by "oh but don't say anything/don't tell anyone/he's been through enough" like I was born yesterday.

[ y'all. ]

Yeah, she mentioned. Some people just seem to get all the luck -- or are more approachable than they can admit to themselves.

...I'm not lecturing you, if that's what you think. But I do think it's smarter to find someone else, anyway. The more of them we find, the more likely we are to learn what's in play if they keep winning.

[ he nods, though. ]

She's always been that like - thinks no one likes her, even though they trust her with their secrets. She's blind, that way.

So we figure out who we trust to ask, and we go from there.

All while being very insistent that no one trusts her, misses everyone running at her to spill details. No one's pointed that out to her?

Lili is apparently working through a backlog. [ he says, dry as the desert. ] There are a few I've picked out to ask, but I can't guarantee that they'll want to work with me.

[ at that, he waves a hand through the air. ]

She'll just say that trust, in a situation like this, is different from liking someone. And she isn't wrong about that - but she's an idiot sometimes, when it comes to other people.

'Course she is. [ he looks thoughtful. ] I mean. Asking doesn't hurt, and if they say no then that's someone to shove at one of us another time. Akira's got the same kind of crap going on that makes people want to tell him things, so he might have some luck where me, you or Lili don't.

[ pfft. ]

The sheltered rich girl stereotype? [ 'cause y'know. she has the hallmarks of it. ]

I'm not going to send them to someone who won't reciprocate. Trust is supposed to go both ways.

...But yeah. She's the daughter of a noble, so she was always going to be sheltered. She's grown out of some of it, but the rest still shows.

Won't reciprocate?

[ kara are you being a little binch? ]

Sheltered, not around people, doesn't know how to deal with people in some cases? That kind of thing? [ ... ] Makes sense though. She didn't know what a high five was.

If he refuses to share his own team with anyone, then I'm not sending anyone to tell him theirs.

[ bias aside, he thinks that's actually pretty fair? ]

Yeah, that sounds right. [ there's... more to it, but that isn't for kara to tell. so he focuses on something els instead. ] ...What is a high five?

Have you tried telling him yours first?

[ c'mon. ] Trust's a two way street. And, sure, the arguments there if he's not telling anyone ever, but if you're charging up to everyone asking their powers it puts the other person in vulnerable place straight up.

[ oh. wow. both of you.

ash sighs, and holds up a hand: ] Hit the palm of your hand against mine. And don't be shy about it.

He said himself that no one gets to know his team - not even Lili. So why would I bother? There's no point in wasting my time when I know it's not going anywhere useful.

[ he just. stares at ash's hands for a second. ]

...Why?

He told me the same thing at first. But when I told him my team, and he told me his.

[ do you see his point? ]

...

Why not?

Then he lied. [ akira double confirmed for shady bitch! ] I'm not going to waste time with him, anyway. We have better things to do.

[ . . .

well, fine. he gives ash a confused look, but he'll press his palm against ash's, then. ]

Being determined to hate a guy's kinda petty. [ he shrugs. ] Sure, I know him better than you do, but he's not malicious.

Also you're working with him, so you kinda do have to waste time on him or what's the point of teaming up?

[ ....

an attempt was made. before kara can move his hand away, ash moves his back and then slaps their palms together. ] Smack them together, and there's your high five.

Lili is working with him.

[ apparently that's an important distinction. that may mean he's also working with akira by association, but. lili made that decision, not him.

he does pull his hand back then, startled. ]

...Okay... But what's the point of it?

Dumping all the tough work on her then?

[ kara u binch. oh well. ]

It's fun. [ do you know fun, kara? ] Like a way of saying good job, or congratulating people on something. Win a fight? High five. [ it's literally his victory quote with rean ]

[ that was cute, becks. ]

She's the one who chose him.

[ he considers this for a moment. ]

Ah. [ . . . ] Lili might like that, then. Or Sada.

[ stop. ]

It's a good choice. Even if you've got a grudge, information finds Akira. Probably whether he wants it to or not.

...

Yeah, she was pretty receptive to it. [ now you can high five your girl, kara. and i'm not telling dana ash taught them both how to high five. ]

I have Lili for that. I don't need him.

...Have you sparred with her?

[ why were you teaching her a high five, ash. ]

I didn't say you did. I was agreeing with Lili's choice. [ put your claws away, kara ]

Not exactly. Showed her how to smash someone's nose in, and give them a black eye though. [ i wish i could say but i don't remember. suddenly he was teaching her to high five. ]

[ . . . ]

Good. The more people teaching her to fight, the better.

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