[open] I've got no strings

[poppetstrings]

Who: Xion [ou] and YOU!
Where: Oot and a boot Around!
Summary: Xion's finally not being shady, but she is quite curious as to why her body is a lot more fleshy then it should be. Also getting groceries because someone knows how to cook now!
Warnings: None.

On a nondescript park bench:

Well, this probably isn't something seen everyday! Xion has her boot off, and is inspecting her toes carefully, tugging at each one. But they don't seem to come off at all. Next is her arm, the wrist attached and... not removable. Xion's pretty enamored by this, playing with various things that she's sure should come off, but they don't. Not her toes, not her hands, not her fingers...

It's totally weird! She should be a lot more mechanical than this.

On her way back to her apartment:

Dinner! Everybody likes to eat, right? Right. So Xion has done a few groceries, not a lot! But maybe enough for a few people, should they manage to weasel their way into her apartment as well! It's only polite to offer guests food after all, right?

Comments

park bench!

[islandshore]

[That's... strange. Having met the other Xion, Riku isn't as alarmed by her similarities to Kairi as he would be a few months back. But since when were there two of her? And just what the heck is she doing?

Okay, staring's probably a bit on the rude side, so he'll just mosey on over and see for himself.]

Never thought I'd see someone so fixated on their own hands.

[poppetstrings]

I- I wasn't!

[She almost feels a small well of anger rise up when she hears his voice. His face is familiar, but it's... not the same as the person who called her a fake. His voice is also wrong. They're similar, but not the same.

He's too short, anyways. She manages to calm herself from the small well of anger.]

[islandshore]

[...Wow, that's quite the reaction. At first Riku brings a hand to his hip and raises an eyebrow, but after she calms, he can't help but snicker.]

Relax. I was just teasing.

[poppetstrings]

[Dumbly:]Oh.

Sorry.

[islandshore]

Why are you apologizing? It's no big deal.

[Silly Xion. He's used to people taking his teasing way too seriously.]

[poppetstrings]

I was- I- It's not?

[and the award for most awkward of the year goes to Xion.]

[islandshore]

Nah. C'mon, hasn't anybody poked fun at you before? It's almost never serious.

[The awkwardness is kind of endearing, though.]

[poppetstrings]

Not... really.

[Well. She's poked fun at Axel and Roxas, and they've done the same to her, and she knows it's not serious. But having a stranger do it is... very odd.]

[islandshore]

Well, I guess there's a first time for everything. You kind of left yourself wide open, anyway.

[If he didn't tease her, what was stopping someone else?]

[poppetstrings]

I don't mean to sound rude, but.. Do I know you?

[He seems awfully familiar with her, but she most certainly can't say the same to him. Besides the strange similarities between him and the other one from Beasts Castle, anyways.]

[islandshore]

Maybe.

[He shrugs.]

I know somebody who looks like you, anyway. A couple of them, actually.

[poppetstrings]

What do you mean? You know a couple of people who look like me?

[STRIKE ONE, RIKU. The replissues run deep in this one right now.]