a_sin_for_him | 001

[Nothing makes any sense whatsoever. Lust feels like she's in a radio drama only she doesn't have the script and everyone's speaking a different language. She understands, but understanding doesn't help her make sense of it any. How she got here or why. And the spherical blue abomination she's found herself with looks more like something that should be on a little girl's toy chest, not following her. It isn't as though he's difficult to take care of, or even an annoyance, she only questions the judgement of placing any living thing in her care.

She's thankful at least, for the fact that she's finally escaped her master's reach. Strange as this place is, she's no longer a tool for some miserable husk of a woman who should have been long dead. And she's thankful also for the information device, even without much context for the information it holds. And the fact that it can apparently be used as a communication device. Most comfortable with telephones, she initiates the voice function.]

Much as I hate to simply call out to the void, I'm afraid it's likely my most fruitful option.

Do I understand that I'm expected to work?

[She's never held down any sort of job in her life. How did one even get a job?]

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I can take him to the water, if nothing else. Really, he looks like he'll eat anything.

I'm thinking of calling him Guttle.

Hah, it suits him.

[Yeah he sees what you did there with that name.]

You'll be able to get more too, if you want them. Did you look at the book they gave you?

I thought so.

I glanced at it. If I'm going to make any money battling, I'm going to need more than just him.

Right. And battling is where most of the money in this place is, you don't need to bother getting a job.

[Jobs are stupid. Who wants to stock shelves all day?]

[...although Envy also has a rich boyfriend and a cat that can create magical money from nowhere so.]

Good, I didn't want to.

How do I get more?

You can catch them out of the wild, you just have to use yours to beat it up and then throw one of the red and white balls to catch it in. After that it usually decides it likes you. Sometimes they decide they like you without any of that and they'll follow you until you agree to let them stick around.

You can also buy eggs from people who have extras, they get sold on the network all the time. Everything here hatches from eggs. I got a fox out of an egg, once.

That sounds easy enough.

I'm not going to ask about the biology. I don't think I honestly care at this point.

Yeah, it's...really better not to ask. You can get them sometimes if people you know disappear, too. I've got a lot that I inherited like that.

[Which...reminds him.]

Oh, and something else. There's a few people who might recognize you. You weren't here before, but another you was.

I've been warned about that. These other versions.

Did you know her?

Yeah. She was here for a long time, we traveled together for some of it. She vanished...I dunno, around a year ago.

[His jaw tightens. Even if it had been a completely different Lust, he'd wound up caring about her anyway. And disappearances are a touchy subject for him by now.]

She looked just like you, but she was a completely different person. Much older, really loyal to their boss, couldn't stand even the idea of being human. I don't know how many people she knew, but I don't think she went out making enemies. She was really picky about her identity too, insisted on going by a codename and everything...Bella, Belle, something like that.

Most of the other set was here, at least for a little while. I met everyone but the other Greed and the other Envy.

I can't even begin to imagine...

{Lust is glad this other woman isn't here now, though. She has enough trouble trying to sort out her own identity without adding another woman with the same face into the mix.]

It was...strange. But I think you'll like it here better than she did.

[He sighs.]

I figured I'd warn you, so you wouldn't get surprised by anyone popping up saying they know someone else with your face.

[Because that is not a surprise that any homunculi would like to have.]

I appreciate the warning. It avoids potentially awkward confusion.

I don't mind it here, really. It's strange and confusing, but anything that's new is.

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