Happy Hour!

[sime_channel]

Suzi slipped in from the supply closet in San Francisco (confused, and holding a box of coffee filters) and blinked around for a moment before getting summarily begged to run happy hour and dumped behind Bar

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[hero_farmboy]

"You look a little lost back there," Clark observes, leaning against the bar. "Would a coke be an easy enough request?"

[sime_channel]

"That would be the fizzy drink, right? Not the drug?" She's just checking to be sure...you never know with people here.

Bar pops up a note, "Oh, oh. Yes. Alright." And a laugh from the Sime, "Mikey kind of blind-sided me? About doing happy hour?"

[hero_farmboy]

"Yeah, just the drink, please." Not that the drug would do anything, but still. It's the principle of the thing.

"I'm sure you'll do great," Clark smiles back and, hey, those are tentacles. ...he's guessing because of course he's never seen anyone with tentacles that wasn't in a movie or something. He tries his very best not to stare.

[sime_channel]

"Alright." It takes her a few seconds, then she gets his drink for him and says in a matter of fact tone, "Yes, they're real. Yes, they're normal. Yes, I'm human. I'm a symbiotic sub-mutation of a sub-species of humanity from about 4870 in what was New Orleans, currently living in 1993 San Francisco. My name is Suzi Darley."

[hero_farmboy]

"Thanks," he says, accepting the drink and then smiles sheepishly. "Sorry. I guess you're used to it, though." He doesn't think it excuses being stared at. He had, however, kind of been hoping she was an alien. "I'm Clark Kent, Kansas, 2006. Nice to meet you, Suzi."

[sime_channel]

"Pretty much! I'm the only Sime here, and it's pretty impossible to tell a Gen from a Baseline human without either Sime senses or more invasive doctoring things." She grins at him again and pushes back a mass of curly black hair with a ventral, "It's nice to meet you, too, Clark Kent of Kansas. I went through there once, in a train."

[hero_farmboy]

Clark Kent of Kansas. He doesn't think he's ever actually been referred to that way before. It's usually his other name that sounds like that. It only catches him a little off guard before he recovers nicely.

"Yeah? I bet you saw a lot of corn, then." And then something else catches his attention. "You can sense between baseline humans and yourself?"

[sime_channel]

"A lot of corn." Suzi agrees, "And it's hard trying to figure out new and interesting ways to describe corn to a blind man." Then she nods, and points at what looks like holes on either side of her wrist, "Sime have a different primary sense than baselines, we zlin. It's based in our lateral tentacles like sight is based in the eyes. I zlin all kinds of things, except for dead people. Gods are really sort of freaky, the Kitsune make my head hurt, and angels are the best ever."

[hero_farmboy]

"That would definitely be tough," he grins. Corn is boring, oh does he know corn is boring.

Clark looks where she's indicated and nods, getting the very basic jist. The sight analogy helps. "Gods and angels, huh? I don't think I've met any of those."

[sime_channel]

"I've met, um. Three gods...Belar is my favorite. And an equal number of angels." She says with a grin, "Trying to help Whistler know the world of sight is hard, but fun."

[hero_farmboy]

"I'll have to keep an eye out for them. It'd be interesting to meet at leas tone." And he vaguely wonders if they'd sound or look any different to him. "He's a friend of yours, I take it. Whistler."

[sime_channel]

"Whistler is my lover." Suzi says with a grin, "I love him very, very much. Az...I can't say his name. Raguel and Xas and the tea angel."

[hero_farmboy]

It's a minor miracle, and perhaps it's because she follows it up with how much she loves Whistler, but Clark doesn't even remotely blush or get uncomfortable at the word lover.

"You sound pretty happy. That's good. More people should be."

[sime_channel]

"I'm pretty good at being happy." Suzi informs him. It's easy to not be uncomfortable around Suz when she talks about Whistler; she damn near glows with adoration. This isn't a purely-physical relationship; he changed subspecies for her!