So we have a break in the rain and it is time for me to work on my tan. I headed up to the roof and set up some of the chairs as a screen like I do with my sign posted
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Maybe after his conversation he shouldn't have been looking for this Kei girl, but Yuri had mentioned her in such a way that Gabriel, frankly, was curious. And after all, why shouldn't he be? This girl was like some bad-ass space cop and that was pretty cool, even if Yuri had played it down.
Of course, he wasn't expecting to find her bare-butt naked, but maybe he should have read the sign. Blagh, signs, who even bothered with them, really?
"I hope you're using a high-factor sun lotion." He said, not getting too close but sitting down on another sun lounger that had suddenly appeared, wearing some over-sized shades and holding a cocktail. "A tan's one thing, being cooked till you're medium rare's another."
Gabriel didn't know about that. Messing with genetics to prevent cancer? He could get behind that. "The wonders of the future, huh?" He said, taking a surprise through his curly straw. "I guess there's a lot folk from your time can do with DNA and all that science stuff." Raphael had tried to explain how humans worked to him once, but he couldn't say head found it interesting.
"Yup, lotsa stuff. But, like, genetics isn't really my thing. But my parents bought all the upgrades." Shrug. Okay, I might be able to get cancer and other stuff like that but it's really unlikely. Except colds. I know I can get those suckers.
A drink? "Like, with booze you mean? I've got some stuff in my cooler but no alcohol. Don't wanna dehydrate or anything but something with a lot of fruit juice should be okay. Um, maybe a sex on the beach?"
"Huh. That was pretty swell of them" But then again, if you could do that for your kids, you would. It was only the rubbish parents that would be okay with letting go their kids suffer. Or the nutty religious ones that tout it was some sort of divine plan. He'd dealt with enough of those in his time.
He smirked, a dirty sort of grin but he clicked his fingers. Now there was a little table between the two loungers, and a jug of cocktail. Plus a glass for the lady, of course.
"I'm Trickster. You're Kei, right? I'm met your friends Mughi and Yuri the other day. Just a heads up, but it think she wants to set us up." The girl deserved a warning, after all. He had no desire to be up sold by the over keen blue-haired girl.
This guy has one wicked little smirk. Then he made stuff appear again. A table and the drinks. Useful.
"Yuri mentioned you. She said something about you being called Loki sometimes. So, like, are you one of those gods or something?" I waive at the table and drinks.
Trying to set us up? The party tricks are cool, yeah, but she's gotta know he's not my type physically. "Yuri's projecting or something. I don't know you or anything but, like, I'm into the muscles and stuff. Guns." I hold up the weapons mag. "Last date here was Ares. That was kinda an oops thing 'cause I think he's married." I don't do taken guys. Only desperate chicks do that. "So, like, I'm not saying I wouldn't knock boots in zero gee but I'm not sure about the wedding plans, yo."
He would tell her to help herself to the drinks, but as she's still laying on her front, and he might as well say flash us your tits. He isn't that sort of pervert, so he says nothing. She can help herself when she wants to.
"She did? Hopefully only the good stuff- but I'm on the or something camp." He grins, "Don't like definitions. But I'm not a god."
He takes another slurp of his drink. "That's cool. Who doesn't like a guy that's ripped?" He knows that he's not got a vessel that's drop dead gorgeous in everyone's books. "The Ares I used to know back in the day wasn't shacked up, but with gods it's different. It's more till boredom do us part. None of them take it seriously, so you wouldn't be hurting anyone. He was hitting the sack with Aphrodite a lot." Trickster shrugs. Then again, she was in and out of bed with most people. She had a lot of love to give.
I can't really drink when I'm on my stomach so I flip over. "Like, you don't mind, do you?" Grin. Yuri has a decent gaydar so if she was trying to set us up the Trickster guy isn't gay. Of course he won't mind. I pour a drink and have a sip. Nod. "Good stuff."
"I'm not big into definitions either. Too much work and that's for Yuri. But good to know I didn't get Ares in trouble with a wife. Can't say I could take a god in a fair fight." Like it would be a FAIR fight from me. Ha!
"So, like, other than tricking people, what do you do?"
Well, if he did mind its too late, but he doesn't. "Christ on a bike, be careful you don't knock yourself out." He says as she shifts, eyebrows raising beyond the frame of his shades. But he smiles at the compliment, "Thanks. Made it myself." Well, snapped it up, anyway.
"You know, it'd be pretty damn hard to get the god of War and Conflict into trouble. Or at least, he wouldn't mind if you did." The Trickster said, "But I don't know about 'Dite... she probably fights dirty."
"Me? I only just got here. So right now, I guess I'm finding my feet." He shrugs slightly, "And trick people. But you've got to keep your hand in, right?"
They aren't that huge but I'll take the compliment. The uniform is a bit loose in the chest lately so I know I've lost weight. Can't drop too much or I'll have to refit my battle bikini and that just sucks time like crazy. I take another sip of the drink.
"Ares did handle himself really well." Grin. Best date ever. "I don't really fight fair either. It might get me dead and stuff." Another grin.
"Feet finding and tricks. I guess that's something. Me and Yuri run the paintball arena. It's a bit like work but with fewer dead bodies." And destroyed ecosystems or imploded space stations. Hey, it's not our fault.
"I guess being space cops means you don't get to be nicey-nicey." He admits. "Fair fighting is only for rough-housing with your friends." He doesn't say family. You can always attempt to stab your brothers in the back.
He nods- Yuri told him about the Arena already. "Fewer dead bodies has got to be good." He smiles. "She's invited me down for a free game- for some reason. Mughi thinks he can beat me in a game."
I wouldn't fight fair ever. I might LOSE or something. But I guess I probably shouldn't say that. Hey, I do have some sense.
"Mughi's pretty good. His hearing is great and he can do stuff in the arena that I can't like jump UP a level. I climb them, yeah, but not jump except for down. And quiet, too. He can beat lotsa people." But he brags a lot. And he cheats. "Did Yuri tell you he cheats?"
Huh, he has the exact same view point, strangely enough. Loosing is not something he enjoys doing.
"Well, he's a cat." The Trickster says, "That's sort of what they do. It's like they've got senses you don't." But they weren't unbeatable. "She mentioned it. But I don't exactly play by all the rules either. It's sort of in the job description."
"Trickster is both the name and the job description? Kinda cool."
Wait, I remember what Yuri said about this guy. He bought Mughi the rat ice cream stuff. "Hey, you're the guy that put the flies in all the sugar cubes, right? I wondered what Yuri was thinking." Setting me up with a guy that looks like this? Not that cute. But sneaky. I'm into it. "Like, why'd you do that? HOW'd you do that? I just gotta know." Sip more drink and flash the hooters. Better sun exposure, too.
"Pretty much," He said, flashing another grin. After all, when a creature didn't have a name, people tended to give 'em names based on what they did. Tricksters tricked, simple as.
He laughed, "Guilty," he said, watching her interested expression and apparently pretty pleased with himself. He liked it when people noticed the pranks he pulled. He liked it more when they were gorgeous. Call him shallow.
"Why? Why not. I'll let you into a secret. Most people have two sugar cubes, right? So I put a bug in one out of every four. Some people aren't going to get any bugs, some people are. Makes it more fun, you know, when people expect bugs and there aren't." He winked at her, taking another long sip of his drink.
"As for the how... that's a bit complex. But basically? Because I wanted it to happen, it did."
The Trickster thing is a code name or something. I get it. Me and Yuri use them and undercover names too. Safer, yo.
"Oh, so you can do magic stuff like that? I've heard some people here can do that. Pretty cool. It would make a lot of dangerous stuff easier. Less fun, though. Gotta have a bad side to it or you'd do it all the time, right?" Grin.
Makes a bit more sense why Yuri wanted to set us up. I wonder what kinda magic he'd try in the sack. Woo!
"You got any other good ones you've pulled. I haven't got Yuri good in a while. Not since we've been here. Mughi either."
Of course, he wasn't expecting to find her bare-butt naked, but maybe he should have read the sign. Blagh, signs, who even bothered with them, really?
"I hope you're using a high-factor sun lotion." He said, not getting too close but sitting down on another sun lounger that had suddenly appeared, wearing some over-sized shades and holding a cocktail. "A tan's one thing, being cooked till you're medium rare's another."
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"Like, I'm way rare, not just medium." Grin. "Don't need sunscreen. Got all the mods." The genetic modifications, yo. Can't get cancer.
Um, wait a minute. That lounge chair wasn't there before. I gotta take a second look at this guy.
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"Want a drink?"
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A drink? "Like, with booze you mean? I've got some stuff in my cooler but no alcohol. Don't wanna dehydrate or anything but something with a lot of fruit juice should be okay. Um, maybe a sex on the beach?"
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He smirked, a dirty sort of grin but he clicked his fingers. Now there was a little table between the two loungers, and a jug of cocktail. Plus a glass for the lady, of course.
"I'm Trickster. You're Kei, right? I'm met your friends Mughi and Yuri the other day. Just a heads up, but it think she wants to set us up." The girl deserved a warning, after all. He had no desire to be up sold by the over keen blue-haired girl.
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"Yuri mentioned you. She said something about you being called Loki sometimes. So, like, are you one of those gods or something?" I waive at the table and drinks.
Trying to set us up? The party tricks are cool, yeah, but she's gotta know he's not my type physically. "Yuri's projecting or something. I don't know you or anything but, like, I'm into the muscles and stuff. Guns." I hold up the weapons mag. "Last date here was Ares. That was kinda an oops thing 'cause I think he's married." I don't do taken guys. Only desperate chicks do that. "So, like, I'm not saying I wouldn't knock boots in zero gee but I'm not sure about the wedding plans, yo."
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"She did? Hopefully only the good stuff- but I'm on the or something camp." He grins, "Don't like definitions. But I'm not a god."
He takes another slurp of his drink. "That's cool. Who doesn't like a guy that's ripped?" He knows that he's not got a vessel that's drop dead gorgeous in everyone's books. "The Ares I used to know back in the day wasn't shacked up, but with gods it's different. It's more till boredom do us part. None of them take it seriously, so you wouldn't be hurting anyone. He was hitting the sack with Aphrodite a lot." Trickster shrugs. Then again, she was in and out of bed with most people. She had a lot of love to give.
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"I'm not big into definitions either. Too much work and that's for Yuri. But good to know I didn't get Ares in trouble with a wife. Can't say I could take a god in a fair fight." Like it would be a FAIR fight from me. Ha!
"So, like, other than tricking people, what do you do?"
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"You know, it'd be pretty damn hard to get the god of War and Conflict into trouble. Or at least, he wouldn't mind if you did." The Trickster said, "But I don't know about 'Dite... she probably fights dirty."
"Me? I only just got here. So right now, I guess I'm finding my feet." He shrugs slightly, "And trick people. But you've got to keep your hand in, right?"
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"Ares did handle himself really well." Grin. Best date ever. "I don't really fight fair either. It might get me dead and stuff." Another grin.
"Feet finding and tricks. I guess that's something. Me and Yuri run the paintball arena. It's a bit like work but with fewer dead bodies." And destroyed ecosystems or imploded space stations. Hey, it's not our fault.
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He nods- Yuri told him about the Arena already. "Fewer dead bodies has got to be good." He smiles. "She's invited me down for a free game- for some reason. Mughi thinks he can beat me in a game."
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"Mughi's pretty good. His hearing is great and he can do stuff in the arena that I can't like jump UP a level. I climb them, yeah, but not jump except for down. And quiet, too. He can beat lotsa people." But he brags a lot. And he cheats. "Did Yuri tell you he cheats?"
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"Well, he's a cat." The Trickster says, "That's sort of what they do. It's like they've got senses you don't." But they weren't unbeatable. "She mentioned it. But I don't exactly play by all the rules either. It's sort of in the job description."
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Wait, I remember what Yuri said about this guy. He bought Mughi the rat ice cream stuff. "Hey, you're the guy that put the flies in all the sugar cubes, right? I wondered what Yuri was thinking." Setting me up with a guy that looks like this? Not that cute. But sneaky. I'm into it. "Like, why'd you do that? HOW'd you do that? I just gotta know." Sip more drink and flash the hooters. Better sun exposure, too.
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He laughed, "Guilty," he said, watching her interested expression and apparently pretty pleased with himself. He liked it when people noticed the pranks he pulled. He liked it more when they were gorgeous. Call him shallow.
"Why? Why not. I'll let you into a secret. Most people have two sugar cubes, right? So I put a bug in one out of every four. Some people aren't going to get any bugs, some people are. Makes it more fun, you know, when people expect bugs and there aren't." He winked at her, taking another long sip of his drink.
"As for the how... that's a bit complex. But basically? Because I wanted it to happen, it did."
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"Oh, so you can do magic stuff like that? I've heard some people here can do that. Pretty cool. It would make a lot of dangerous stuff easier. Less fun, though. Gotta have a bad side to it or you'd do it all the time, right?" Grin.
Makes a bit more sense why Yuri wanted to set us up. I wonder what kinda magic he'd try in the sack. Woo!
"You got any other good ones you've pulled. I haven't got Yuri good in a while. Not since we've been here. Mughi either."
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