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WHAT in person
WHERE the onsen by the lake
WHEN 67

[You know what's great on a chilly fall day?

Publicly bathing in hot water under the open sky!

That's what the flyer on everyone's door from Tidy Living apartments says, anyway. Slippers and big fluffy towels have been provided, and a shallow pool of steaming hot water has appeared on the roof of the apartments over night.

There's no gender divide here, just one large onsen with smaller connecting pools of varying temperatures, ranging from 'kind of warm' to 'regular humans would probably not survive this for long' temperatures.

There are signs near the pool but they seem a bit confused, sternly advising thing like "Clean flesh only" and "Please not expel bodily fluids into the water from any opening" and "If running, please fall away from edge". One simply says "It's dangerous" with no other information in sight.

But actually it's probably fine and you'll have a nice time, assuming public nudity sounds like a nice time, anyway.]

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Yes.

. . .

Maybe just. . . take a moment.

[ he's still leaning into thor, and not really looking to pull away any time soon ]

My head hurts.

[bleeds on. Also cups the back of his neck, rubbing his fingers gently into his scalp.]

[ shut up you baby it'll stop eventually ]

Edited 2017-11-21 10:57 (UTC)

[WOW]

There's always midgard aspirin?

[ snorts ]

Have you ever known Midgardian drugs to work on us? Ah... No, actually. Don't answer that.

[blithely]

They definitely work on us.

...

Thor.

[still gently rubbing his scalp]

Hm?

What did you do?

... Be more specific?

Midgard's drugs?

Oh. Ecstasy, LSD, marijuana, and cocaine.

...How did you even-- No. I don't even want to know.

[ HE IS SO PERPLEXED BY YOU ]

I was rather famous and popular, you know. That gets you so many cocaines.

That wouldn't actually help with your headache, though.

No. I imagine not.

[ jiiiiiiiii ]

[I handled your second death well]

. . . Loki?

[ siiiighs, pushes you around so they're sitting shoulder to shoulder and he can lean against your (uninjured) side ]

You're not allowed to start working here.

[I GUESS. He considers scolding him and telling him to just lie down in bed properly but whatever, he will take this.]

Well I'm not going to be a kept man like you.

[ snorts ]

That would be more my style; it also would get boring after a year or two.

I do more work than Tony does, running this place, and I won't have you underfoot.

[... Sulkily]

Well I wouldn't want to work for either of you anyway.

...Did you want to work here?

I've no idea what I want to do. I've been nonstop this whole time. The idea of "stop" is strange altogether.

[ ...twists, and presses his palm against Thor's eyes ]

Stop. Breathe.