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[preparade]

 Wow, look at this empty page!

Have an inbox for Taiga at Starsand!  Fascinating, right?  It looks very professional and cool.

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msg from OdenLove

[loveedition]

Hey, Aisaka-san. Are you still at my place right now?

[preparade]

yea, i am
whats up?

[loveedition]

...sorry, I can't explain over this. Just... stay there for now, okay?

[preparade]

[ Way to give a tiger anxiety, Ryoko... ]

are you ok???
you'll be back soon, right? i can come get you?

un: starlight

[spacialeyes]

[Sometime after this, Taiga is getting an out of context message.]

Hello. Aisaka-san? This is Yumeno Yuuto.

Ryoko has talked about you a lot and I liked talking to you myself recently. Actually, I think that I like you a lot. You seem really cool and interesting.

Would you like to go somewhere with me? Just the two of us. I want to get to know you better and learn to like you even more!

un: mmacarons

[preparade]

[ Despite the inevitable confused gesturing and short circuiting at Ryoko that followed reading this message, Taiga can't get over how... whatever that is... Yuuto's wording is. ]

u mean as friends right
right????????????????????

[ She doesn't even give him a chance to respond before sending another message. ]

RIGHT?

[spacialeyes]

Oh!!! No

I mean!

Only if I deserve such an honor???

[Calling him a friend so soon..! Yuuto could die of happiness.]

[preparade]

no??? what
are kami not supposed to have friends? is that not allowed??? it doesn't have to be friends if youll get in trouble?
business partner??? worshipper? attendant??????

UN: starlight

[spacialeyes]

Good evening, Aisaka-san!

Do you have a minute to accept a gift?

[preparade]

gift??? it’s not christmas yet, but… yea?

[ he’s got spirit… maybe he’s just confused ]

i’m at ryokos

[spacialeyes]

Do you live together?

[Holy shit, Ryoko! You move fast???]

[preparade]

[ GODDAMNIT ]

NO!!!!! she’s just helping me with things!!!!!!!!! her place is better than mine

[ she’ll leave out the part where she spends the night if she’s too sleepy or how ryoko is a really good cook ]

action!!

[loveedition]

[ A day or so after the knitting party, Ryoko spent a lot of time working, making sure she'd get this done. Excitedly, she decided to meet Taiga after she was done with her part-time job!

Kinda trying to be inconspicuous, holding a gift bag stuffed with tissue paper. Waiting, waiting.

...it's still kinda cold outside. ]

[preparade]

[ Lucky for Ryoko's freezing limbs, today was a relatively slow day in the flower shop so it's not long before the door chime rings and Taiga's heading out into the cold. Part time work might be done, but there were what felt like a million more things to figure out for the party. Even if it's more complicated than she expected, Taiga just had to work even harder!

So much harder that she nearly passes by Ryoko without noticing, only stopping after a double take. ]

Aaaaah!!! I-I almost forgot you were gonna stop by--sorry sorry! What's up?

[ No, she doesn't notice the bag. ]

[loveedition]

It's okay. As long as you're keeping busy.

[ Hey, getting all that done was still pretty good! Nice work, Taiga. Ryoko waves her concern off. ]

I brought something for you. I know you've been working hard lately, and the weather's only getting colder, so...

[ She hands over the bag. Inside, a red, broken-rib stitched scarf. It has something that looks kind of like a cat stitched onto it. Most importantly... it's kinda got a slight pink aura to it. ]

un: OdenLove // while she's waiting for the damn mission to start

[loveedition]

Ahhh

I knew I forgot something.

un: mmacarons

[preparade]

is everything ok? i can meet you somewhere

1/2

[loveedition]

No no, don't worry about it.

I just forgot to tell you...

[loveedition]

Love you too.

un: messiahcomplex

[loveedition]

Listen, just... don't worry about her for a moment, okay? It'll be fine, I won't tell her anything you said.

Go get some rest. Love you.

un: palmtoptiger (also u dont get the benefit of a real icon <3)

[preparade]

Excuse me?

[loveedition]

[ ........palmtop tiger...

Oh no. ]

Um. Hi.

Did you sleep well?

Some time after the first ADA meeting now in the right timeline

[rejectedchain]

Hey. Shorty.

[Elliot has not forgotten! Looming over Taiga, he levels her with a glare.]

You still wanna race?

[preparade]

[ really?! shorty?! he’s lucky she’s learned restraint over the years, or that would’ve earned him a punch to the gut. ]

Did you think I was joking? Of course I do.

[rejectedchain]

I hope you're prepared to lose. You're the one who wants to do this, so I won't go easy on you.

Let's do this.