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Lucas scoffed, but there was amusement in his eyes. "Don't live your life by the teen movies, that'll mess you up before you begin. No rodizio style joints for you though if you're planning to try everything." Accepting the slice, he balanced it on his fingertips, waiting for Sunny to get her own. He had some semblance of manners.

"Doesn't have to be, though." He lifted one brow at her, but shrugged at the question, readjusting the slice on his calloused fingers. "Slow. Usually I'd make jokes about the speed of a one-legged man in a race, but." His chuckle was faint. "I work from home most of the time." Tilting his head back, he indicated one of the rooms behind them. "One of my pieces got damaged recently, fixing it has been a pain in the a** without the facilities fully set up."

He watched some of the cheese sliding off the pizza, huffing and biting it quickly before it fell, tucking it against the inside of his cheek. "If you live on the beach, do you not have an actual like -- home?"

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I can help was on the tip of Sunny's tongue, but Lucas didn't seem at all acclimated to her magic just yet. Maybe it'd be better to offer later. She was going to be understanding, and pretend to be human, just like he seemed to want. "What's a rodizio," she asked, and then she shrugged at his question about her home. "I have a place to sleep," she said. "But I haven't gone back lately. Last time there was a man there and I… I don't like him. He scares me."

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If he saw her bite back the words, if he thought of it at all, it didn't show. "Rodizio style is a Brazilian form of all-you-can-eat. There's some joints that offer it for pizza -- "

Lucas swallowed down the piece of fallen toppings with some difficulty, staring at her like she'd grown a second head. "What in the blue hell can scare you?" It wasn't an accusation, it wasn't even him being pissy about magic. It was a genuine question, one that quietly asked if he should be afraid in turn.

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"He said he was my father," said Sunny. "Which can't be true, since I'm several thousand years older than anyone else alive, and therefore no human male could possibly have been long-lived enough to see me born. And he… he said he was proud of me, which is bullshit, because he's never even met me, and… I don't like not knowing things. It's… scary."

She frowned at her pizza slice. "He's probably not dangerous, but… I'm scared anyway. It feels like a bad omen."

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"He's not an otherbeing," said Sunny firmly. "I know Otherness. I think he's Other-touched, like you or like Jeremiah or--anyone, really, involved with this. But… I've never seen him before. I always know when I've met someone before, always, things are never secret from me. You know? I am… a universal constant. The only constant."

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She looked down at her pizza. "If you don't mind. I'll be okay if you do, I always am." She set it back into the box, closed the top. "I don't know. I don't want to put anyone else in danger. It's not right."

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She sniffed. "I can do anything that I want. Even that inception trick where she makes the buildings go vwrrrrm. I can do that. Except not a trick or a dream."

Sunny stretched her legs out. "Thank you, Lucas," she said.