🎧 homophonic | pcs | valerie gray

[silicone]

Why should I trust you?

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w0, saturday

[huntressinred]

[ it is after trial and idk where we are exactly but wherever it is, she is coming with a twenty pack of nugs

when she spots Eiden, she holds up the open box ]

Want some?

[silicone]

[ oh. the nugs. eiden is curled up somewhere just kind of vibing to some music on his phone. ]

... Yeah. Thanks.

[ he will take one and pat the space next to him if she wants to sit. he has a fountain drink next to him that he's slowly working on. ]

I know that really sucked.

[huntressinred]

[ sighs and sits down in the aforepatted space ]

Understatement of the year.

[silicone]

You doing okay?

Today was really rough.

[huntressinred]

I'm not used to solving murders. Or seeing that much blood all at once. It's...I've done better.

[silicone]

I don't think a lot of us are used to those things. I definitely haven't had to deal with anything like that before.

[ he offers her a smile. ]

We're both learning a lot, huh?

[ if. she allows it, he will just rest a hand on her shoulder. ]

[huntressinred]

[ she allows it, because touch week ]

If this is learning, then I'd rather just go back to studying Shakespeare and calculus in school.

[silicone]

Oh man... hm. Yeah, I'll take working 80 hours a week over this. I was already on the verge of death. Didn't need to go to hell too.

It sucked... but you did good out there, okay? I meant that. You stepped up.

[huntressinred]

[ rolls her eyes ]

You don't have to butter me up. It's not like we found anything useful anyway.

[silicone]

Doesn't matter. It's the effort you put into it.

[ he offers a shrug ]

I can appreciate that.

[huntressinred]

Mmm. Effort doesn't count for much if it doesn't actually work, though.

[silicone]

[ shrugs ]

I'll take it considering we had to do in 9 hours what most people do in weeks.

[huntressinred]

And by "people," you mean lawyers. Which none of us are.

[silicone]

Seriously. What am I supposed to do, design them into confessing or something? This crap isn't my wheelhouse at all.

[huntressinred]

Design them into confessing?

[silicone]

[ he shrugs ]

Yeah, I mean that's what I am. I'm a designer.

[huntressinred]

Like...a graphic designer?

They still have those?

1/2

[silicone]

[ she's too young she can never find out unless she snoops it out herself. ]

2/2

[silicone]

Hah - I design toys, actually. But I can do graphic design too. Kinda artsy all around.

[huntressinred]

[ see, if this hadn't been a two parter even i would have been fooled into thinking this is a completely innocent statement

unfortunately valerie can't see dw thread structure, so. ]

Huh. That pay well?

[silicone]

[ u mean fortunately???????? ]

You know, even with the overtime, not really. But it's beat all the other jobs I worked since I was a kid, so.

[huntressinred]

Other jobs, huh? Like what?

[silicone]

Mmm... Barista, personal assistant, hospital night security, shooting gallery operator for a few summers, canvassing for a few places at the city center... did some mascot work for one place for a while...

[huntressinred]

[ whistles, impressed ]

You've done a lot of stuff.

[silicone]

Ever since I was old enough to work, hah.