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A Box of Assorted Sonico

A: Video: *Sonico appears on the screen with a big smile and bright eyes, and she even gives the camera a shy wave* Good morning, everyone! I just wanted to take a moment to thank everyone here for how good and kind you have been. The fundraiser was a huge success, and I want to thank everyone for their kind words about my performance. I would also like to thank everyone for your thoughtful Christmas gifts. I was so shocked and suprised! I am so grateful to have met such generous friends. She takes a moment here to bow her head for a second or two to prove her gratitude. Suddenly, there's a small growl and a bundle of fluff appears, bouncing in front of the camera. Sonico looks up and laugh, and scoops the creature into a hug* And this is Meiji, my new kitten. Thank you, Koishi for being so thoughtful. *Yeah, Sonico looks at the cat like she's in love. There does seem to be something curious about her new kitten, though....

B: Action - Bar: This, unfortunately, appears to be a bit of a tradition for Sonico now. Another friend has disappeared. One who looked after her, and cared for her when she was house bound with broken ribs. One who tried to understand her, and consider her emotions. It hurts that he's gone now, so Sonico has found herself in a small bar, nursing a beer and staring at the table in front of her.

C: Action - Nova Mall: As soon as Sonico found out about Grell's Foundation for orphaned and disadvantaged children, Sonico was desperately keen to be involved. An orphan herself, she knows how difficult life can be. Not everyone has an awesome grandmother to take care of them. In order to raise awareness, and hopefully raise some money for the charity, Sonico sits up a little concert in Nova mall. Anyone nearby or casually shopping can pop in and enjoy the show! Sonico is on stage with a band, complete with her own electric guitar this time - thank you, Arro! - and is performing something very different from last time. This is for kids, so the show is in full on pop rock mode. The songs are punchy and fun, upbeat and catchy. To match, Sonico has gone cute with her costume too. Fun for all the family. Enjoy! Donate! Feel your heart go out to the orphans every time Sonico appeals between songs!

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"Well, I'm obviously very biased toward the place," Tannusen chuckles, toying with his cup of tea, "but I think it's fine to go there and to be comfortable at the same time."

Sonico sips the last of her beer and puts the bottle down on the table, pushing it slightly aside. "Then maybe I'll have to have to go along some time and see what it's like. Although..."

She picks up a beer mat and starts toying with it between her fingers, "I tend to only go drinking like this on my own when a friend leaves."

Ah, and there it was. The reason his stupid pooka nature had dragged him over to the small pink human despite his knowing better, intellectually, than to get involved.

"Well, you're friends with Trahearne. Drag him there." See? Easy solution.

And... totally not helpful.

"I don't know... Trahearne didn't seem very sure about it before. I don't know how either of us would fit in..."

Because now she has this bizarre mental image of herself and her tree friend sitting drinking tea and reading books while...while all sorts of debauchery goes on around them. Okay, that is enough to make her giggle. "Oh dear. I'm not very good at this socialising thing. But maybe I could try. It might be fun. Maybe?"

"Well, I'm certainly not going to force you," Tannusen chuckled, "I'm not half that desperate for clientele. Being the only gay bar ran by a real person, Velvet Lust does pretty good for itself."

"Oh! No, you wouldn't be forcing me at all. You might be forcing Trahearne, though, if you dragged him there. I think he had a hard enough time at the singles event." She knows she sure found that a tricky event to socialise at. "It might be nice to just know there's a place to go to..if I need a drink."

Tannusen laughed gently at that, because if he hadn't forced -- tricked, rather -- Trahearne out of his comfort zone a few times by now, the tree would possibly have never met Sonico!

"Trahearne's someone who needs a bit of goading, here and there." To put it lightly.

Fortunately for the sylvari, he'd taken in someone who had no problems with a certain level of boundary-pushing. It'd even been his job, a time or twelve.

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Yes, and the same would be true of Sonico going absolutely anywhere. If her friends back home, and even some of the new ones here, didn't drag her out and make her go places, then she'd nevergo anywhere. So she flushes a little at his comment about having to goad Trahearne.

"Hmm...I suppose...that's one way how he and I are quite similar." She smiles sheepishly at admission, and tries to shrug to show it's not big deal, when really it kind of is.

"Really? You're shy?" Oh, you are so not helping by teasing the poor girl, Tannusen.

Oh, dear, no, he definitely isn't, because of course that makes Sonico blush in her embarrassment as she puts the beer mat down on the table, trying not to fidget with it. "Hmm...Maybe? I don't know..." Or, basically, painfully, yes.

"Don't worry, it's cute," Tannusen really wasn't above teasing the shit out of someone to distract them from their sadness!

"Cute...?" Sonico just stares at him a moment in disbelief, then taking a moment to figure out if maybe he's making fun of her. That being shy is cute doesn't seem to compute with her. "It is? Not...annoying? Or frustrating?"

The tiger laughed at that, though the sound was gentle enough. "No, remember -- I live with Trahearne."

Clearly, such things didn't bother him!

Sonico smiled, though still a little bashful about all of this. "That is true. And Trahearne is very lovely. He's so friendly." Then she settled back against her seat, somewhat more relieved. "Back home, I was told a lot that being shy was a bad thing."

"Why's that?" The tiger's brow furrowed a little. "It seems to me that's just how some people are."

Hell, even Tannusen was shy in the right circumstances! It just wasn't part of what he presented to the world at large.

"I think...some people see that shy people are scared. Or strange. That they're not living life enough." She glanced at her bottle, wishing that there was some beer left, but she's started so she might as well continue, though she became a little quieter. "And in my line of business...some have said it's a setback and holding back my career..." Though the way she looked as she said it, it didn't seem as though she thought it mattered all that much.

"Mn, I think anyone who claims they're never shy about anything is just lying to themselves," Tannusen shrugged. "And it's your career, not theirs."

If Sonico didn't think it was holding her back, then that was that. Or such was the tiger's opinion.

"I suppose most people have experienced what it's like to be shy." So saying, Sonico bowed her head and started fidgeting with the hem of her skirt. She looked up finally, and tried I smile. "You're right about that to. You're very helpful.."

"Well, I try... once in a while. I get my quota in, and then I go back to being an asshole cat," Tannusen smiled, and took a drink of his tea. He was only half joking. Maybe not even half.

Sonico watched him sip his tea - so delicate in comparison to how scared she remembers being at seeing him as a tiger. "If...I were to see you in that form again...would you still be trying to scare me? Does...your mind change?"

"Hm?" Tannusen paused in the middle of putting his tea back down on the table, considering the question. A few seconds went by, and he finished the motion. "My mind is different in my true form, but it's just instincts. The intelligence is the same. So you'd be safe enough, as long as you didn't startle me or try to get all... handsy."

Sonico seemed like a smart enough gal, at least, that the warning was more of a paranoid formality. Because yes, 'handsy human' was something that'd happened to him before. A handsy, stupid human.

Sonico listened carefully and watched as he spoke, clearly taking this all in and thinking about it properly. "Intelligence but with instincts. That is interesting. I wonder what that must be like..." Her eyes widen at the notion of being 'handsy', and she shakes her head, "Oh no. Not me. I'm not handsy in the slighest. You wouldn't need to worry about that."

"See, I knew you were a smart one," Tannusen offered a smile. "I've had a human just grab my head before, it almost ended very poorly for her."

Only at the last instant had he realized what was going on and retracted his claws. Madison could have lost her face with that single swipe, otherwise.

And no, he didn't understand it. His other form was fuzzy, sure, but... kind of terrifying? There was an instinctual part of humanity that knew this was what they'd been in an arms-race against for much of their early history. And he was a record-breaker in size...

"I honestly don't know what was wrong with her. Even Isaac wasn't that bold about it."

"Just grab your head? But that - well, that's really quite rude and also...rather silly. I wouldn't have wanted to do that to you when I met you in the book shop. I hope you don't mind me saying so..."

It was one thing to be afraid of him when he was in that state, but sitting opposite her here she felt a little more embarrassed to say so.

"Are these..people from your home? Your friends?"

"Why would I mind you saying that? It was an unbelievably stupid move on her part. My instincts wanted little else than for me to tear her apart."

And it still hadn't quite sunk into Madison's thick skull what she'd done wrong. Ugh. The worst thing about the truly dumb is that they didn't learn. Ever.

"That human wasn't a friend, but Isaac was." But Tannusen wouldn't allow himself to sink into melancholy, he was here to distract Sonico from hers, after all.

sorry for the delay! lost track of all my pre-flu scenes for a while there <3

No problem! Hope you are at post-flu stage now!

I seem to moooostly be, yeah~

Hurray for that!~

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