DODO CABIN CATCHALL

[gluttoning]

If we lose any dodos, I'll make a new PC! Unless I'm the lost dodo in which case y'all are on your own.

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post merlin death

[dakicover]

[ well, later in the day after the psa, crea will...try to set up something. really it's just him grabbing a bunch of canned drinks like sodas and energy drinks, and a bunch of junk food like chips and cookies.

maybe not enough to sate a demon, but it's a weak attempt at comforting the other cabin members.

crea himself is nearby the hammock, mindlessly rocking while eating a bag of chips. ]

[gluttoning]

[Beel is gone for a WHILE after the investigation wraps up, but eventually he'll swing back to the cabana.

He has brought bones for Noodle. How many turkey legs did he inhale to get this many bones? Don't ask.

He'll scoop up a carton of the cookies as he drops to a seat in the grass.]

You okay, kid?

[dakicover]

I could be better.

[ and he could be worse, too. crea smiles as he watches beelz sit down, sitting up with a bit of a struggle. ]

How 'bout you? I think I watched you destroy a speaker from the distance?

[gluttoning]

[He nods, popping open the carton but not touching the contents.]

I was angry. Hadn't eaten enough. Then did all that work, just to find out they were toying with us.

Irritating.

[dakicover]

No kidding. To think that they would make him into an example for us.

[ ... ]

Makes me wonder just where they are... physically, I mean. I'd love to give them a piece of my mind.

[gluttoning]

Lacus thinks they aren't here at all. But it wouldn't explain how they killed Merlin, if that was the case.

I can't think about it. I'll get angry. And then I'll just get too hungry again. [Frustratingly snapping a cookie in half in between his teeth.] Don't want that.

[dakicover]

That's fair. And it's not good to eat while you're angry. Upsets your stomach.

[ he looks down at the cookies, and then at his bag of chips... ]

I'll trade ya some chips for a cookie.

[ holds out the bag. ]

[plunges]

[ Like Beel, Xiao will also be gone for a while, but he will return later in the evening. He steps into the room quietly, not wanting to disturb anyone who may be asleep. He has brought back some fruit to share with the others.

It makes him a little sad, seeing Crea without his usual spunk. Xiao turns to look at him from over his shoulder, not knowing what to say.

He just...turns and holds out an apple towards him instead. ]

[dakicover]

...

[ oh... an apple.

actually, the gesture hits crea quite close to heart as he smiles sadly at xiao, taking the fruit. it's been a while since he's seen an apple tree... ]

Thanks. Did you get this from the buffet?

[plunges]

[ He makes note of that sad smile, and chalks it up to stress from their current predicament. Xiao doesn't make it a point to interact with others so much, but in times like these, it may be for the best to try. ]

Yes. I didn't think anyone else would bring back food, that's all.

[ He feels a little bad for not taking anything Crea brought back, but that's just Xiao being picky about his food more than anything. ]

I imagined it would be hard for people to have an appetite after what occurred, but food is important nevertheless.

[dakicover]

Yeah, I got stuff that was easier to carry. A bunch of bags and cans are way more simple to transport than plates of food, but it's true that we should still try to eat well even in this situation.

[ he looks at the apple in his hands, taking a light bite of it. ]

Thanks, by the way. It's been a while since I've eaten an apple as nice as this.

[plunges]

[ He nods, though what Crea says gets him a little curious. ]

Was it your world or your circumstances that made it so?

[ The apple isn't anything special to him personally, so he wonders what Crea's life must've been like before coming here. ]

[dakicover]

Mostly the situation. Hopping between worlds means that you don't really have time or availability to be buying many groceries, you know?

[ he shrugs. ]

But I did remember planting a few apple seeds with my friend, when we were younger. This reminded me of that.

[stilllovesyou]

[Weirdly, Nona loves soda, so she's drank two whole cans of it and only chewed on the can a little bit. Her mood is a bit more melancholic. She didn't know Merlin at all so she can't bring herself to feel too sad about his death, but death is death and the effect it's had has rippled out.]

People are going to start dying now.

[gluttoning]

[...

There's not much to be said for it. She's not wrong.

He shuffles up to a seat next to her with a carton of Crea's cookies in his hands and a takeaway bag in the other. His big long legs... give him a second to get comfortable, oof.]

...I have bones. For Noodle.

[stilllovesyou]

Thank you. Noodle doesn't mind people dying so long as Noodle gets bones.

[She smiles, taking another chug of soda, before pulling it away.]

We don't have this back home. It's good.

I hope you don't die, Lord of the Flies.

1/2

[gluttoning]

They're turkey, not human. But they're easy to find.

[Soda isn't too healthy, but at least it's something, and he's about to comment on it, but she's quicker--]

2/2

[gluttoning]

...

Oh. [It's not a title he was expecting to hear, and the surprise will feel evident even though his expression doesn't budge much.]

Not many people call me that. Did I tell you that, Nona?

Re: 2/2

[stilllovesyou]

You said it was your name.

Er, or that's what I heard when you said it. Um.

[She's trying real hard now.]

Beelzebub.

[Perfect hebrew pronunciation.]

[dakicover]

[ poor nona. it's no good if everyone in this cabin is feeling down, but at the same time crea can't blame anyone for feeling that way. a guy was literally just found dead.

but her statement is so direct that it's almost chilling for the ex-hero. he's not unused to death in the least, but... ]

Maybe. Probably. And here I thought we wouldn't have to do it.

[stilllovesyou]

I never thought that we'd be able to avoid it.

[She smiles, a little sadly. It's... again, a distant kind of grief. She can't bring herself to feel anything about Merlin's death. Which is sad. She thinks that she'd probably have loved him.]

Have you ever killed anyone?

[dakicover]

I have.

[ crea looks conflicted as she says so, almost as if it were unveiling painful memories. he doesn’t like killing, hell, he doesn’t even like fighting…

but it comes with the jobs.

he eats a chip. ]

What about you?

[stilllovesyou]

Not that I remember.

Everyone around me has though. [They shouldn't have to but they have. Even her classmates, the oldest of which is fourteen.]

[plunges]

[ Xiao hears what she says, and she isn't wrong about that. But, like Beel, and like what he did for Crea, he will go ahead and hand an apple over to her. ]

Here.

[ ...And then there's Noodle. ]

What does your companion like to eat?

[stilllovesyou]

Noodle isn't very picky. [She takes the apple and just looks at it, making no motion to eat it.]

Noodle will happily eat most things, even if Noodle shouldn't eat them. So you have to be really careful. But generally Noodle likes bones and meat.