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[a_sin_for_him]

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[no_ufo_ending]

_{[He photogrpaher nods.]}

Some of them are. They won't kill you, but they can make you very ill. But these don't. I've been eating them for years.

_{[Can you tell?]}

[a_sin_for_him]

What do they do?

[Lust is skeptical, but curious.]

[no_ufo_ending]

_{[Henry opens an eye when there is a loud squeak from the pokemon before shutting it again.]}

They make the world more interesting. Take your mind off things.

[a_sin_for_him]

Oh?

[Lust slides off the couch to sit on the floor beside Henry.]

In what way?

[Little Henry is on his back, paws wiggling in the air, staring at the wall. He's still getting the hang of this 'playing' thing.]

[no_ufo_ending]

<sub>[Henry glances over again, this time puzzled. Lady, haven't you ever done drugs before?]

[Oh, right, she wasn't an art major.]</sub>

I'l show you some time--CHEERIOS! Stop that!

_{[Cheerios had grown a little over excited and had begun to drag Little Henry across the carpet by one ear. At his trainer's scolding he stopped and gave Henry a pair of BIG INNOCENT EYES.]}

You play too rough, you'll hurt him.

[a_sin_for_him]

Henry, stand up for yourself!

[Little Henry was simply allowing himself to be dragged, quivering and confused. Lust's only concern is Cheerios tugging his ear the wrong way. She doesn't need another psychic Espurr blast in the house.]

And I'd like that. I like trying new things. Making the most of humanity and all that.

[no_ufo_ending]

I have some saved.

_{[He stands and puts his mug down on an end table before drifting off into his cave/room. He isn't gone long before he returns with a small plastic baggie with small crumbly shavings inside. Legit.]}

Just take a pinch. You're not used to it, so it could be very strong.

[a_sin_for_him]

[Well, no time like the present. Lust looks down at the baggy, curious.]

Do I just eat some? How long does it take to take effect?

[no_ufo_ending]

_{[He shakes his head and opens the baggie for her.]}

Put it in your drink.

<sub>[Henry, meanwhile, takes a big honking wad of it and just eats it because he's a hardass motherfucker dont take no shit from no berries. He then takes another sip of his coffe and starts chewing the stuff.]

[Because that's classy.]</sub>

[a_sin_for_him]

Oh.

[Lust watches him, eyebrow raised, and then takes a pinch of the berries and adds it to her coffee and liquor.

She takes a cautious sip. Today's certainly taken an interesting turn.]

[no_ufo_ending]

<sub>[Henry chewed the stuff like a Tauros and stared tiredly down at the two pokemon. Cheerios was now attempting to teach Little Henry to play tag by batting at his forepaw and then doing an impressive loop around the living room whether he was being chased or not.]

[For lust, the stuff would take a good ten minutes to really kick in. But when it does, it does, especially since she's new to the stuff.]</sub>

They're a little weak when they're dried, but it's winter now and they're hard to find.

[a_sin_for_him]

But potency of substances is directly linked to tolerance and experience. I don't have any.

[She's never been able to enjoy these kinds of things before - drugs and alcohol never had an effect on her as a homunculus - but she's familiar with the science of mind altering substances.]

[Little Henry is making an effort, trotting after Cheerios but hanging back and not trying to catch him.]

I'm not going to start crying and telling everyone I love them, am I? I've seen intoxicated people do that, it's embarrassing just to watch.

[no_ufo_ending]

_{[Henry pulls his gaze away from the pokemon and blinks slowly at Lust.]}

Um. No.

_{[Wrong drug.]}

Things might look or feel strange, but it's not like that. That isn't fun at all, I'm not sure why people do it.

[a_sin_for_him]

I've only ever experienced the effects of alcohol. I knew an alchemist who took Elevation of Parsinnen, though. Raw opium powder pills. He'd get giddy and wouldn't stop talking and he'd try to get amorous and usually fell asleep on top of me before he'd even started. I tried it and it didn't do anything for me.

[no_ufo_ending]

_{[Henry frowns. That sounds...less than pleasant. And awkward. He could have done without knowing that.]}

I'm going to make some toast.

_{[Henry excuses himself to the kitchen because he can feel the very edges of the stuff creeping in and he needs something crunchy, dammit.]}

[a_sin_for_him]

Oh, bring the honey and jam, too!

[Lust has never had any shame about her former profession - she likes to think of it as 'professional mistress' - and likely never will. Discussing the sexual habits of the alchemists she'd targeted was the same to her as discussing weather or shopping.

She finishes her drink and sits back, waiting for the berries Henry gave her to kick in. Maybe she should be keeping track of the time...]

Henry? Have the walls in here always looked...fuzzy?

[no_ufo_ending]

_{[AND SUDDENLY, Henry was actually sitting right next to her. With the toast halfway in his mouth.]}

Hmm? Oh, sorry. I can make some more.

_{[He glanced at said walls. They'd always been fuzzy to him, so he just shrugged.]}

They feel nice.

[a_sin_for_him]

Mmm.

[When had Henry come back? The floor felt like a ship deck, tipping and rolling without actually moving. It wasn't unpleasant, just strange and unexpected. She closed her eyes to the odd texture of the walls and she found herself keenly aware of the bursts of color and shapes in the darkness of her eyelids.]

Is it normal to feel like I'm melting? Or...dripping? Dripping might be a better word.

[no_ufo_ending]

Probably.

_{[Henry just sits and eats his toast as if nothing is amiss. So they were sitting on the sun? Been there, done that. Solar flares were pretty. It was kind of cool to see Cheerios hopping over Lusts's pokemon in slow motion though.]}

[a_sin_for_him]

It's so pretty....

[She was watching the walls now. It looked like waterfalls, only instead of water it was tiny glittering crystals that moved like liquid. She hadn't expected to hallucinate - but then she didn't really know what she was expecting.

She can't believe Henry's so calm and unaffected by the drugs.]

[no_ufo_ending]

Mhm.

_{[Henry finishes off his toast and then entertains himself by rubbing the crumbs between his thumb and forefinger before flicking them into space where they became stars and galaxies.]}

So long as the weird bear doesn't show up.

[a_sin_for_him]

The bear?

[She turns to look at Henry and the little frown his words caused melted away into a delighted smile.]

You have lights in your hair....

[She reaches out to brush her fingers against them - and the tips of Henry's hair - without thinking much of it. The lights cling to her fingertips and she moves her hand this way and that to watch them run like water along her skin.]

[no_ufo_ending]

The weird bear.

_{[Henry repeats and watches his fingerprints ripple on his hands.]}

It never does anything, it just appears in the corner and is there, you know--um.

_{[Hello, Lust, this is Henry's personal bubble. He leans away from her a little.]}

[a_sin_for_him]

That doesn't sound so bad.

[Lust's already leaned back, her attention on her own hand which she holds out in front of her to watch the lights travel like droplets up and down her arm and over the back of her hand, following the lines of her nodes.]

[no_ufo_ending]

He's really weird, though

<sub>[Henry watches Lust gaze deeply at her own arm before going back to his own business. He shifts forward and sits down on the floor with the pokemon. He scoops up Cheerios and turns him upside down.]

[Cheerios knows this game! He instantly starts moving his feet as if he is walking. Henry placidly 'walks' him around on various surfaces like the walls and sides of the sofa.]</sub>

Spiderman.