✼ 4th zap | video/action ✼

[lightningcute]

[The video feed shows Pao-lin sitting cross-legged on her bed, her hands resting clasped on her legs. When she speaks, her voice is a bit trembly, but she makes up for it with a big -- though apologetic -- smile.]Um...to everyone whose things I might've broken or messed up during the experiment...I just wanted to say I'm really sorry. If you want

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[video] Also, I forever apologize for Iria

[ruinedhiswish]

Oh? You did something bad during that time?

[asks someone who is up to no good most of the time]

[video] ahahahaha oh gods I'm sure this won't be awkward at all

[lightningcute]

[oh god it's her. Why is she the first person to respond to this? Pao-lin tries her best not to show how off-guard she is at Iria's appearance.]

Yeah...the experiment made me run around and, um...mess up people's yards and things like that. [Close enough.]

[video] I'm so sorry this is so late ;A;

[ruinedhiswish]

[Sorry Pao-lin, but this one could not miss a chance like this.]

I see~

[video] No worries! BTW Spada still needs to reply over at our one log thingy

[lightningcute]

How's Luca? Did he ever manage to cut off all that hair or get that dress off?

[lostinmyway]

[Oh hey, have a visit from the great evil you defeated in mortal combat, Pao-lin]

Don't worry. I'm sure everyone understands it was an accident.

[lightningcute]

Yeah, but I still feel really bad. It doesn't matter if I didn't mean it -- I still caused some damage and I have to take responsibility for it. [At least there weren't damage fines or anything like that in Luceti.]

[lostinmyway]

Oh, no. Saying sorry and helping people out is okay, but you shouldn't feel bad.

[lightningcute]

[Oh, if it were only as simple as telling yourself not to feel bad.]

Thanks, Grune. I hope you're doing okay after I, um, "killed" you.

[action]

[justicereigns]

[At the tea shop, Smoker is looking for stronger coffee blends when he spots Pao-lin. He gives her a small nod.]

What are you reading?

[action]

[lightningcute]

Oh, hi...uh...Smoker, right?

[She holds up her book.]

It's a fantasy novel from my world. I was surprised to find it at the library.

[action]

[justicereigns]

Yeah, you remembered.

Oh? [Tries to get a good look at the title.] Favorite genre?

[action]

[lightningcute]

[She nods.] Well, I usually like reading comics or manga over books, but this is one of my favorite stories ever. [The title reads White Light by Cynthia Yih Shih, and the cover illustration is of a girl standing on a mountain with her arms held out to her sides.] What brings you here? Um, I mean, aside from getting tea.

[voice]

[cakeblocked]

[Well. She'll get getting a big, apologetic smile back.]

I-I don't think you have to apologize for something like that. But as long as we are, I, uh... Sorry. For... walking around like that.

[voice]

[lightningcute]

[Hey, it's that guy from the bakery! The...almost-naked...one. WHAT HAS BEEN SEEN CANNOT BE UNSEEN though really the sight of Luke in just his briefs isn't a bad sight to be able to unsee.]

Ah...it's okay. It was really the experiment's fault for all of that. [She smiles.] Hmm, it's kinda weird, isn't it? None of this is technically our fault, but we still feel like we have to apologize for what we did anyway.

[voice] /l-laaate D|

[cakeblocked]

Well... Sure, it wasn't our fault, but we're still the ones who did it. I don't know how many times I apologized for this kind of stuff... [Only three or four times, but it's not like Luke keeps count or anything.]

[voice] You're fashionably late!

[lightningcute]

I guess that makes sense. [She laughs.] At least you weren't destroying other people's things like I was.

...unless you were?

[Action]

[dragoon_pride]

[Although he hadn't planned on being around people right after the experiment, Kain does want to go take some of his annoyance out in the Battle Dome on the simulations. So he's heading in there now.]

[Action]

[lightningcute]

[In addition to actually training using the simulations, Pao-lin likes to hang out on the viewing area on the second floor, watching the scenarios that other people run in order to learn from them and incorporate ideas from them into her own routines. Also she just likes watching cool shit.

Kain's simulation, which is full of DRAGONS and FLYING and MAGIC, definitely qualifies as "cool shit".

So whenever Kain leaves his simulation chamber, he's going to find a cheerful young girl sitting just outside, wanting to ask him questions about what she saw up in the viewing area.]

[Action]

[dragoon_pride]

[Satisfied that he's beaten enough Golbez simulations today, Kain ends the scenario, leaping down from the back of a mighty dragon, which soon fades away with the rest of the landscape. He heads toward the exit and starts out...]

[...to find himself facing a girl waiting there. He looks a little unsure about this at first. Maybe she's waiting to get in?]

[Action]

[lightningcute]

[Pao-lin had been starting to doze off a bit while waiting for Kain (man, why is she so tired today? She hopes she's not getting sick), so she's a little startled -- and kind of intimidated, honestly -- when the door opens and out steps a very tall man in full armor.

Still, she shakes herself into wakefulness and addresses him confidently with a smile.]

Hi! Um, I hope I'm not bothering you too much, I just wanted to ask a couple of questions about your simulation. If that's okay with you...?