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[secretingredients]

Well, they kinda keep replenishing so it's not a huge deal, but it's the principle of the thing!

[ Honestly, Chuuya!!! But then he's also super easy to bribe. ]

Sure, I'll have a glass. I have to wait on my roast, anyhow.

[doublesmall]

Do they? I thought Starshine said it was a special order kind of thing.

[but also they can go outside now so like, it's not totally weird, he supposes. maybe they arrive somehow.]

[secretingredients]

Oh... I guess it depends on the vintage.

[ He's gonna go back and check. The cheap wine replenishes, the fancy stuff.... ]

Damn, you had to take the oldest ones?

[doublesmall]

It's the closest to what I'm used to-- but I only took one of 'em, so if more went missing, you're going to have to look at someone else.

[he'll shrug and leave it at that for a second while he fetches the bottle he mentioned! bless kantera's heart for handing over his wine. chuuya pours a glass for him and hands it over.]

[secretingredients]

Ah, so you're a man of expensive tastes, huh?

[ Don't talk about wines, no one wants to be that bored, Thug. ]

It might've been Starshine, she likes messing with me. [ He sighs. ] It's been like that ever since we slept together. Or since we became brother and sister? I forget.

[ The answer is both and this is Starshine gossip power hour. ]

[doublesmall]

--okay, she mentioned you guys were together once, but not the brother and sister thing. That came after you guys slept together, right?

[that's getting into weird territory, jesus.]

[secretingredients]

[ Thug, being the thick guy that he is, did not see the weirdness until Chuuya pointed it out. ]

Oh, yeah! That would've been weird. We weren't together for that long.

[ Phrasing, Thug. Phrasing. ]

See, our parents got married, but that was after we'd stopped sleeping together. We tried breaking them up, actually!

[doublesmall]

So it's a stepsiblings kind of thing. Okay. That's way less weird, thanks.

[PHRASING IS IMPORTANT THUG...]

How long ago was all this, anyway?

[secretingredients]

Step-siblings, sure. [ IF YOU WANNA BE PEDANTIC.... which you totally should be, Thug. ] They're just as important as regular siblings, you know! She still gets invited to the family gatherings.

But this was all before we wound up here. Back home.

[doublesmall]

What kind of place are you from? Pretty similar to this, or did you want different weather or something?

[secretingredients]

I mean, it didn't snow all the time and it wasn't always weirdly themed, for one thing.

It was, you know, normal.

[doublesmall]

It's your place though, right? You could go without the weird themes if you wanted to. Make it a little more normal.

[secretingredients]

I wouldn't say it's ours. We just live and work here.

[doublesmall]

Hasn't seemed like the owner's been around or anything, though, so who's gonna stop you from just-- not doing it?

[secretingredients]

[ Thug hums, like the question makes him uncomfortable. ]

I mean, it's my job. I'm not going to stop doing my job just because the owner isn't around to tell me if I'm doing well or not.

[doublesmall]

-yeah, I guess that's fair.

[he's not here to make thug too uncomfortable, he won't press that particular question for the moment.]

How'd you guys end up working here in the first place, anyway?

[secretingredients]

Well, we showed up here and got hired, basically.

[ Sounds simple enough, right? ]

[doublesmall]

But not 'showed up' like we did, right? Or did you guys get stuck or something too.

[secretingredients]

We were looking for a bed & breakfast and wound up here.

[ it is a bed and breakfast, after all. ]

[doublesmall]

Were all three of you together, or just you and Starshine?

[was brasco also a previous buddy or what...]

[secretingredients]

What? No way! It was all of us. I would follow Brasco anywhere.

[doublesmall]

Tell me you didn't sleep with him, too.

[secretingredients]

What?! Noooo. No way! Me and-- with Brasco? Definitely not. I've never even considered it! Absolutely not.

[ Methinks he doth protest too much. ]

[doublesmall]

That's an awful lot of denial for someone who's never even considered it.

[ok but consider that you'd sound like this if someone brought up dazai, chuuya.]

-hey, how'd that go with Starshine, anyway?

[he's curious about both sides of this...]

[secretingredients]

I, uh... I mean. I might have. Maybe thought about it... y'know, once or twice.

But he's my best friend! I couldn't.

[ That's definitely enough on that subject!!! ]

"With Starshine," you mean like, in bed?