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[explosivecombat]

[TEXT; LOCKED TO doitrockapella]

The offer for conversation is always open, should you desire to take me up on it; I can't guarantee that I'll respond immediately, nor will it necessarily be the response you want, but I'll always respond in some way.

In the name of enlightened discourse.

Comments

[doitrockapella]

I spent most of it at the beach.

One of my valuables came back to visit, and I spent another good while in the company of a charming officer in the Amestrian military.

[explosivecombat]

Well, if he's still in the military he can't be too poorly-off.

Did you enjoy yourself, at least?

[doitrockapella]

I was a little worried about him, actually. He'd been doing research of some sort lately, and was quite eager about it. I think...the war must be almost over for him now.

I really ought to teach you how to swim, one of these days.

[explosivecombat]

Was he working with someone else, or was this research his own?

[doitrockapella]

Oh, um. ...No, he did mention someone else. Another alchemist, but he didn't say who.

[...]

Bypassing Equivalent Exchange. That was what it was, I think; someone had figured out how to do that.

[explosivecombat]

All right, then.

Why the mention of swimming, by the way? You said something about the beach; please tell me he didn't fall in somehow.

[doitrockapella]

No, but we played on the Olivine rocks. It was cute, really; he'd never seen the ocean before then. I suppose that shouldn't come as any surprise, given what I know about Amestris, but it was a little darling to see it firsthand.

[explosivecombat]

"Darling" - that's a new one.

But that sounds about right overall; I hadn't seen the ocean at all before coming here.

[doitrockapella]

It seemed as though you had fun, for the duration. It was nice.

...Speaking of nice, you also took your uniform jacket off.

[explosivecombat]

[Well then.]

I'm not surprised. I used to do that quite often back then, actually; those jackets were more of an inconvenience than they were worth, and I haven't the vaguest who thought it was a good idea to send us out into the desert dressed like that.

Given that this weekend was a bit warmer than I would have been used to by that point, I can see where I would have, especially if I was in a position to get it wet or dirty or what have you.

[doitrockapella]

You didn't tell me you looked like that in your younger years.

[explosivecombat]

Would it be unforgivably cliche to say that it never came up...?

[doitrockapella]

What would be unforgivable is if you don't look like that any longer.

[explosivecombat]

Oh, so I've got you curious now, do I?

[doitrockapella]

You've known me for how long? You can't possibly still think it's difficult.

[...]

Or was that flirting?

[explosivecombat]

[...YOU ARE GOING TO HAVE TO GIVE HIM A SECOND TO STOP LAUGHING TO HIMSELF FIRST BECAUSE WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT - ]

Don't let it concern you too much either way, Locke.

[doitrockapella]

That doesn't help my curiosity at all, you know.

[explosivecombat]

It wasn't intended to.

[doitrockapella]

You ought to let me teach you to swim, though. One of these days.

[explosivecombat]

Oh? And why is that?

[doitrockapella]

There's an activity people sometimes engage in where I'm from — they make watertight goggles so swimmers can open their eyes underwater, and it comes with an apparatus to breathe through so you don't have to lift your face out of the water while you swim.

It lets you look around underwater and experience all the fish, without letting the light bouncing back off the surface of the waves get in the way.

[explosivecombat]

It sounds interesting, at any rate. Unfortunately, however, I'm more than content to observe from a distance.

[doitrockapella]

Until you fall in, at least.

[explosivecombat]

So far I've done rather well on that front.

[doitrockapella]

Even if you never use it, it's not as though you'd lose anything from having it.

But I understand. I'll leave it alone.