~~ / Ill play this song for you...
Memi jingled in the door. She seemed to be doing that a lot lately. The staff that she had slung over one shoulder jingled, Asclepius jingled, and the box was was carrying jingled. She thought that jingle should be a movement verb for her, and found the thought extremely funny.
She opened the door quietly--as she was able--and came into the shop, her home. She was sleeping in a storeroom, as Aclepius had so artfully reminded her, but it was home. It was a comfortable, warm, safe feeling.
Now she just had to find Zero....
Which, on all account, would not be so hard.
The teen had been lured down by hunger, looking through the fridge, unaware that anyone, even less her friend, had just entered. Disadvantage of someone permanently humming in your head, maybe.
"Zero! You're up!" Memi rushed over, chiming all the way. "How'd you sleep?" She tried ineffectually to hide the box behind her back. It was wrapped, so it wouldn't really matter if she saw it or not, but... it was a surprise!
"Long. I can't believe I slept for four. freaking. days." She mumbeled. At least she hasn't felt asleep since then...
This was so freaking confusing...
She blinked though, noticing the box and comically leaning, only managing to stay stranding was by her grip on the fridge door.
"Nani ? You went shopping ?"
"It seems pretty normal around here," Memi said sympathetically. "It seems like everyone but us sleeps like sixteen hours a day. Maybe it's a god thing. And yeah, I did." Memi tucked her staff under her chin, an odd and awkward position, and offered the blue paper-wrapped box to Zero. "For you."
"Ne ?" She blinked, then smilled. "Seriously ?!? Domo arig- errr, thank you, I mean."
Her quest for food forgotten for the time being, Zero took the box and handled it like if it was fragile crystal.
"Let's go to the couchs, ill be better to open it there !" Excited and happy, the teen was allready scampering off before she had even finished her sentence.
Memi bounded after her, staff back in hand; she wondered if Zero would like it. Or if Echo would like it. She jumped onto a couch next to Zero and settled herself in, squirming like a puppy. "Go on, open it!"
Zero basically leaped into the couch herself, attacking the paper as soon as she had stopped moving, grinning like a 5 years old high on sugar on a christmas eve.
And when she finally opened it, her eyes whidened.
"WHOA ! This is so cool, Memi ! And so pretty ! Where did you find it ?!?"
Very pretty, yes... and sutch a beautiful sound..."There was a little craft store that opened before I... um... left, that my Mom goes shopping at sometimes. I went back today, and I thought you'd like this one." Memi was grin like the cat that ate the canary. "It sounded the prettiest."
"It's wonderful." She smilled, poking it with one finger gentely to get the sound to play. "Really really wonderful. Echo loves it, too... Arigato."
She seriously wanted to go and try to find something to give to Memi, but realised she wasn't quite sure just what... Oi. She had to find something... She would, in time.
"You're welcome," Memi said, pouncing Zero for a hug. "I'm so glad you like it. It's kinda for the both of you, since you like metal and echo likes music..."
Asclepius shook himself, chiming self-consciously.
Memi giggled. "I think he wants one too."
Zero returned the hug, grinning.
"I can see why." The teen visibely decided against moving for now. "Maybe we can go get him one later, and you could show me where the shop is ?" She asked, a bit curious. She'd never spotted a shop with chimes before... but then, all things bared, she hadn't been in gaia for that long.
"Maybe, sure! It's just this little place with lots of chimes and other things my Mom called "rustic" even though they looked clean to me," Memi said. "We could get one for Beryl, too, maybe. She'd probably like it better than Asky. He'd probably make the cleaning sprocket keep it shiny. We don't really have a window to hang it in anyway, so no breeze."
That was one problem with living where she was. No windows. While there was a lot of really neat stuff, it was like she was closed in a box. It was a reason she stayed out and awake as much as she did.
"Yeah, im sure she would love it." The teen mused, running an hand to the side of the chime to keep it's sound flowing, with a percision on the start and end that could make wonder who was really handeling the movement.
"We could always ask Beryl to make some wind for us ?"
"But then, perhaps, did she not tell you you could decorate your room as you may ? It might be possible to make a window...""Jinx." Zero announced, frowning a little bit. "But I dunno how."
"Me either. I wonder how we get our own rooms, if there's paperwork or something." Memi looked up at the ceiling in thought. "Probably not. I hope gods don't have paperwork. Hey, maybe we could be roommates for a while? If you want. I don't know how it'll work after, but I think that could be cool. Or we each get our own rooms however it works and stay with each other, like a sleepover." Memi was obviously in love with the idea. "With popcorn and chocolate and funny movies!"
"Better yet, have our own rooms right one next to another and have some kind of secret passage in between them ! So we can visit each other all the time without anyone noticing." Sage nod.
Sounded like a plan, a plan indeed...
"Ooh, I like that a lot!" Memi snuggled up to Zero. "I'm glad you're here. I have so much fun. I need to ask how we get rooms so we can do that..."
"I could ask Beryl next time I see her..." She tapped her chin with her free hand, the other still holding the chime in the air, as if it could catch wind that way.
"Because, in a sence, we can't just mooch off part of their room forever, ne ? Im amazed Beryl isn't annoyed at me... Im kinda loud without really noticing it sometimes. And Vertigo loves to knock things down."
"Yeah. I wonder if we can even get rooms. Maybe there's an age limit, or th gods have to get them..." Memi wrinkled her nose. "at least we can ask."
"An age limit sound a bit silly." She mimiced Memi's face without really noticing. "I mean, I net we're not the first ones to just... stay here, yanno ? But I've yet to see another host, just gods... ...Do you think we are the two only ones ?"
"Maybe... feels kinda lonely, though, to be the only two not-gods here." Memi shrugged. "I wonder how many of them we've really met. I dunno. So what are you doing today?"
"Not much, really..." She tried to shove the thought of being the two only hosts in the closet for now. "I was gonna get something to eat... probabely go outside shopping. I promised Beryl I would decorate my room so... I guess finding things to put in it would be a nice start ?"
"Well, you've got one thing," Memi said, inordinately pleased with herself. "What were you gonna get?" It was ideas for more presents. And they were going to room right next to each other--which would be even cooler! Would Panacea and Echo like each other as much as Memi and Zero did?
"Well, probabely..." ...Actually, she had no idea. "...Alot of blue... maybe some musical instruments for Echo... Im sure she'lld love that." She tapped her chin again. "...Things like that, you know ? I was actually planning on just going by impulse, kinda."
