D-Link 03

[eroded-earth.livejournal.com]

[Terra is staring at his hand. Cambot is watching Terra. What is going on? Terra holds his hand under the lamp in his room and his skin starts to sparkle, but when he pulls it out its not as noticeable. Terra is frowning at his hand and then looks up at the camera]

Hey Pinkie Pie did you have glitter or something at the party last week? I think it might have gotten all over the satellite.

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[iamaman-punch.livejournal.com]

[He just got sparklier. More sparkly. What the hell even. It takes a second or two for Linkara to process what happened and to remember that there is indeed a fourth wall issue here.]

It's a joke. From the book we're riffing this week. It has angsty sparkly vampires that sparkle in sunlight instead of dying fiery painful deaths like any good vampire should.

[eroded-earth.livejournal.com]

[Terra blinks in surprise. He looks back down at his MUCH sparklier hand. If it was a joke then why was it so true. Then again, other people were sparkling and they couldn't ALL be killers]

Oh. So you think this is related to the riff that's going to happen...and not something else?

[iamaman-punch.livejournal.com]

[Please don't tell him that angst increases the sparkling. Please.]

Considering that "skin of a killer" is something the sparkliest, angstiest vampire in the book says, and that the book is known for sparkly vampires...yeah, I think it's riff-related.

And I'm not about to ask what else you thought it related to, since I'm pretty sure your girlfriend or BFF or bodyguard or whatever she is will kill me if I try.

[eroded-earth.livejournal.com]

I see.

It's not something I really want to talk about anyway. So, thanks for not pressing the issu---wait, girlfriend? Aqua's not...I mean...she's a girl but not like...we're just friends.

[iamaman-punch.livejournal.com]

[This is one eyebrow slowly raising at Terra's reaction.]

Uh-huh.

[eroded-earth.livejournal.com]

[manly pout]

It's true. We grew up together. I've known Aqua my whole life.

[iamaman-punch.livejournal.com]

[He just shrugs. Hey, he got his relationship status all figured out; no way in hell is he touching Terra's.]

Look, I'm not about to get involved in this one. All I'm saying is, she'll kill me.

...you might not want to stutter next time someone brings it up, though. People will start rumors like that. [He snaps his fingers. He himself is a pretty good lesson on how quickly people will take the wrong idea and run with it around here.]

[eroded-earth.livejournal.com]

[confused look]

Why will someone kill you about this?

[sighs]

Yeah...you're probably right. You were the one that said she was my girlfriend though...it just caught me off guard. No one's ever said that to us before.

[iamaman-punch.livejournal.com]

Because someone is a little overprotective. [Have a flat look. It's pretty obvious who that someone is.]

You grew up together and nobody has ever said that to you before?

...you were homeschooled, weren't you.

[eroded-earth.livejournal.com]

You mean...Aqua? [Yeah, he's kind of picked up on that] I should probably talk to her. She's...always sort of been like this though. We've watched each other's backs for years. Even with how things went recently I guess...we both still want to defend the other.

[He looks lost in thought. So many things to think about lately...but it doesn't help that it just seems to make him sparkle more. Sigh, oh well.

Huh? Yeah, why do you ask?