We Are Our Avatars VI (Closed for Good)

[DotSlash]

Yuki shrugged while she giggled a bit. [color=bb66bb] "Hm... Guess not." ...Eh... Force of habit to ask that... then to rip their head off... [/color]

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Ness looked toward Sophia and noted her tone. She put her hand to her chin for a moment. "Well, I still have a decent amount of gold left... Maybe I can buy you some jewelry, if you'd like. How about it, Sasha?" She proposed, smiling warmly toward Sophia.

 

[Zepherus14]

Sophia actually seemed really surprised by this, she took a moment to collect her thoughts. "I... I don't know what to say. You barely know me and you'd do that for me?" She seemed really touched. "I don't know if I could accept such kindness." She said hesitantly, a combination of being modest, as well as not thinking she deserved such a thing. Deep down however, it was pretty obvious she did want to take the offer.

 

[Outisakanobody]

"Good...good. Well, goodnight." I say with a nod as I walk into the ship to sleep.

OOC: Goodnight.

 

[DotSlash]

Yuki waved bye to Tanner before practicing again.

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Ness simply nodded toward Sophia. "Of course. Even if I don't really know you doesn't mean I can't be nice to you, right?" She nodded toward Sophia again as she seemed to hesitate. "Don't feel like you're being pressured. If you don't want it, feel free to say no. I won't be angry or bitter about it."

 

[Zepherus14]

Sophia bit her lip a little, she knew that she did want to accept, but from where she came from and how she was raised, it was a difficult decision. After a long pause, Sophia finally stated her answer. "I... appreciate your kindness, but... I can't take this... It's just too much." She said, squeezing her hand a little.

 

[DotSlash]

Ness nodded a bit, still smiling faintly toward the ferret girl. "I understand, Sasha. Thank you for being honest with me." She looked outside and saw that it was pretty dark out. "...Oh... I need to get back to where I was before..." She turned toward Sophia and gave her a small curtsy. "I hope you'll excuse me being a bit sudden, but I need to go. Until next time, Ms. Sasha."

With that, Ness calmly tapped her clip and disappeared in a flash of white light, waving bye as she did so. She reappeared in her room in Holadino on the bed. She slowly flopped onto the bed and looked up at the ceiling for a few moments.

 

[Drakmorg]

Jessica was laying on the floor of her hotel room in Holadino. Her right arm was laying on the ground in front of her, numerous panels open and displaying the various bits of machinery that made up the inner workings of the prosthetic. Jessica clutched a tool in her left hand, while one laid on the ground behind her. Since her arm was detached, there was nothing to fill the right sleeve of her coat, so Jessica had pinned it back to avoid having it flap around and get in her way.
When Ness reappeared in the room with a bright flash of light, Jessica sat back up, blinking a few times as her ears twitched. When she realized what had happened, she quickly started to frantically scramble about, trying reattach her arm before she could be noticed as having it off in the first place.

 

[DotSlash]

As Ness heard Jessica scrambling to reattach her arm, the fedora girl paused for a few moments, believing the sound to be coming from another suite nearby. As she finally realized it was in the room, Ness slowly rose up to a sitting position, rubbing her eyes. As such, she didn't fully see everything that was going on. "...Jessica... what are you doing?"

 

[Drakmorg]

Finding the quickest way to put her arm back on would be to take off her coat, Jessica did so. Using her prehensile tail and left arm, she managed to plug her right arm into what appeared to be a mechanical slot embedded in her shoulder. In doing so, she left out a shrill, yet quiet, shriek and collapsed to her hands and knees, her right arm not seeming to respond and simply hanging limply. After a few moments it went into a few spasms, then it seemed as if Jessica had regained control of it, as she began using it to support herself as she brought herself into a sitting position.
Panting a bit, she answered Ness, "Oh nothing...nothing at all...Sorry if I disturbed you any..." Please don't see me Please don't see me Please don't see me. She picked her coat back up and immediately started fussing with the sleeve so she could put it back on.

 

[DotSlash]

Noting Jess' pants, Ness stopped rubbing her eyes to see what was going on. As she saw Jessica trying to put her coat back one and clearly seeing the arm in its shoulder slot, she couldn't help but ask "...I see. So were you doing maintenance on your arm then?" She didn't seem disgusted at all with what was happening.

 

[Drakmorg]

Noticing that most of the plates on her arm were still open, Jessica let out a displeased groan as she set about closing them all up. "Yeah...I was. It's a pain, and I absolutely hate having to do it, but it came time to get around to it again. I waited until a time when you weren't around so you wouldn't have to see...sorry I didn't finish fast enough." She said apologetically to Ness, assuming she was just being polite and suppressing feelings of utter disgust. She picked up her coat and started fussing with the sleeve again to free it so she could put it back on and hide her arm once again.

 

[DotSlash]

Ness tilted her head, a bit confused by what Jessica was saying. "...Why would you wait until I was gone? I could have helped you with some of the checks if you had just asked. In fact, I would've loved to see the inner workings of your arm. " She sighed a bit dejectedly, thinking that she might be expressing a little too much interest in the arm, making Jess uncomfortable.

 

[Drakmorg]

Jessica sighed and stopped fiddling with her coat sleeves for a moment. "I was worried that you'd find it...and me, disgusting to see my arm detached." I know I hate seeing myself in the mirror with it off... "I didn't think you would actually be interested in it...I don't know why, I guess that was pretty stupid of me..." She replied to Ness pathetically. She went back to work and eventually freed the sleeve of her coat, but hesitated in putting it back on for a moment.

 

[DotSlash]

Ness blinked a bit before sighing and shaking her head. "...Why would you think I'd find you disgusting? I already told you I liked you with or without your arm." She calmly rose up off the bed to take a closer look at the arm and offer Jessica a hand up. "You've really got to stop being so down on yourself."

 

[Drakmorg]

Jessica stood up with Ness' help, taking her hand with her left while holding her coat with her right. "Well, it's just...I showed Sasha my arm one time and...she just looked so horrified it made me feel awful for showing it to her." She said, shuddering a little and unconsciously wringing the fabric of her coat in her hands. Her right arm would look pretty much exactly the same as it had the first time Ness had seen it. "I thought that...I thought maybe you were just being polite...so I didn't want to push anything and was trying to be careful." She seemed to take in Ness' last comment, but didn't say anything in reply, instead just looking down the ground.

 

[DotSlash]

Ness looked toward Jessica and sighed a bit before attempting to hug her. Well... Sasha does seem to scare rather easily. I'm sure not suspecting Jessica to have a prostetic arm led to that reaction... "...Don't assume I'm like other people, Jessica. I've always been a horrible liar, so if I was being insincere, you and I would both know. You can always come to me with any of your problems... like this one, alright?"

 

[Drakmorg]

Jessica didn't attempt to avoid or fight back against being hugged by Ness, but didn't reciprocate the gesture. After a few moments had passed, she wrapped her arms around Ness and hugged her back, crying slightly. "I'm sorry, I s-should have just trusted you..." She said, sniffling a little. "I'll t-try not to keep things to myself from now on...y-you can ask me whatever you want, I'll answer..."

 

[DotSlash]

Ness just smiled as Jess returned the hug. Noting her sniffling, fedora girl held her a little closer. "And remember, you can do the same with me. I won't try to hide anything from you either. All you need to do is ask, and I'll help to the best of my ability."

 

[Drakmorg]

Jessica found herself smiling a little. "O-Okay. I'll keep that in mind." She replied to Ness, still sniffling a little. She hugged her fedora-clad friend a little tighter as she stood there with her, wanting to enjoy the now much more pleasant moment a little while longer.

 

[DotSlash]

Ness simply closed her eyes as the two embraced. She didn't want to let go of Jessica just yet.