Gab'n'Fish shop 1} Luna and Hilorm

Luna played by Kiwi, Hilorm played by Orange

Luna groaned from the beach, it was hot out here and she was not enjoying the sun much anymore. She rose to her feet and hissed feeling the burn of sun on her skin, oh yeah that was a sun burn. She was stoned out of her mind and with the pain her brain was a bit fried. She managed to spot a shop however, and picked her bag up before awkwardly waddling to the shop. She walked into the shop and looked around then squinted her eyes, wait a minute why was she in here again?

Hilorm was, absolutely asleep. Gab had been out all night and most of the day, they'd both gotten their schedules out of sync, and Hilorm needed the nap. It wasn't too big of a deal, it's not like this was an especially busy season or anything, and humans didn't seem to mind so much. And none of the definitely-nonexistent seadweller mafia members were going to show up right then, of course.
She completely missed the ring of the bell as Luna opened the door, or the shuffling footsteps. Face down on the counter, at least she wasn't snoring. Can you even snore at all, face down? Whatever. [/container]

Luna looked at her and then around the room. She blinked, and scratched her arm, then hissed out in pain. Oh yeah sunburn, she winned and made her way to the aloe section of the store. She stared at all the bottles and blinked, okay what kind Luna what kind. The sunburnt stoner stood still confused, her stance was very awkward and she was still in her swim clothes.

There would be, on that shelf, on those racks, a variety of brands. Almost more than one would think reasonable, seeing as how they covered both human and troll skin. There was the occasional bottle claiming to be equally effective on both, though the veracity of those claims was dubious at best. Aloe, mineral sunscreens with titanium dioxide or zinc (I flex my sunscreen knowledge,) all kinds of stuff. All-natural, 100SPF, any number of claims covered every single bottle and tube.
Hilorm was asleep. [/container]

She blinked and picked a random one of the shelf, she started to make her way to the register but got distracted. She looked at some fish type memorabilia and started giggling. She messed with a keychain hanging and it jangled around making noise. Stoner combined with goofball, well it brings out the kid in you. "Fishy" she snorted softly.

Despite the door's bell not waking her up, the jingling of merchandise certainly got to her. Immediately sitting bolt upright, her stool tipped over and she nearly fell backwards with a shout. Gripping the counter, she got her bearings back, blinking for a moment into the light-- a customer. "Hey," she said sleepily, trying to get a good look at this-- no horns. Human. Of course, it was daytime. [/container]

Luna turned to her and blinked, she let her hand move from the fish stuff to giving the troll a wave. She was a bit red and you could deffinalty tell she was burnt. She started to waddle over to the counter with her aloe. "Uh afternoon" she gave a big smilem

"Afternoon, human," she responded. Humans loved the alien schtick, most of the time, and she was happy to oblige. Most of the time. "Had a nice day out on the water? That's a bit of a burn you have on, right now." It was almost a customer service voice, which she'd adapted from the humans. Beforan business involved much less talking, for most trolls. Not that she didn't like a good bit of small talk, who didn't? [/container]

Luna chuckled nervous as she set the bottle down. "Um yeeeahhh," she snorted "I feel asleep on the beach uh, this is what I get for no sunscreen" she kept her smile though it was a little more embarrassed now.

Hilorm snorted. "Sunscreen. You guys sure do have squishy little skin, like that, you know?" This human was red. She knew well enough that they all practically looked like rustbloods on the inside, but the chemistry was different, all sorts of science-y gobbledygook. She rang up the bottle. "That'll be an even 12 Caegars, or 9 human dollars." How convenient it was, that no other human currencies were nearly as popular as the dollar. Something about localizing, she didn't know. [/container]

She took her wallet out of her bag and handed the stuff to her. She whined again becuase everything stung, "stupid squishy skin" she regretted her day, she should have put sunscreen on. In fact she should of set an alarm to wake herself up, she knew she wasnt staying awake. The heat always makes her tired.

Slipping the money into the register-- thankfully it was exact change-- she turned to look at the practically-crispy Luna. "How'd you even get that burnt, man? How long were you out?" Not that this was a particularly rare occurrence, people came in for burns all the time. [/container]

She took the aloe and started to get the plastic off. "I'm not sure how long but like a while, I forgot to put on sunscreen and well my nap was uhhhh. She looked at the clock "5 hours?" She wasnt exactly sure when she got to the beach, but she knows it was a while ago. She scratched her head and that was a bad idea. "Ow'

Hilorm couldn't help it. She laughed. "Five hours? No wonder you're so cooked, I'm franly surprised you didn't go blind!" There were always stories floating around about looking at the sun, directly, and losing one's sense of sight. Alternians specifically liked to go on about how dangerous their sun was, but the humans had their fair share too. [/container]

"Well I was napping so I had my eyes closed, but um yeah ha," Luna was blushing but you couldnt see it becuse of her sunburn. She felt like a fool, out there in the sun like that, well she was one. She sighed "well uh thanks,"

"No problem, dude." That was a word she'd picked up by the humans, and her matesprit had certainly taken to it, too. "Not sure how much that stuff is gonna help you now, 's not like any sort of protection's gonna be worth much at this point." Granted, the bottle was full of aloe, which was much more of a soothing thing than a protecting thing, but it was all semantics as far as she was concerned. [/container]

"Well this isnt sunscreen is it....wait I bought aloe right," she held the bottle up to her face to read it. Okay she got the right thing "yeah yeah itll uh heal the crispy skin stuff, and irs like cold and shit you put it in the fridge I thing. Ee I dunno, anything's better than nothing"

"Oh, let me tell you. I've seen enough of you to know that your skin's gonna shed like a motherfucker!" she said, laughing again. "Most you can do about it is keep out of clothes, slather that planty stuff on it, get yourself somewhere colder. And stay out of the sun, I cannot stress this enough, you see plenty of assholes goin' out 'n' getting themselves burned again." [/container]

Luna nodded "yeah gonna be skin all over the apartment, cant wait for the giraffe shaving jokes from my roommate," Luna sighed "I'm never going in the sun again I'm gonna be like nocturnal and shit, I think that's what it's called anyway, screw the sun"

Hilorm nodded along in mock sympathy. "Must be tough, having your weird human skin. And hey, if you're looking for more troll friends, maybe going all nocturnal wouldn't be too bad for you." Hey, she never minded getting a new friend, and it would be a story to tell! How she turned a human nocturnal, that was a spin. [/container]

Luna nodded and let out a snort, "I mean it wouldn't be that hard with the hours I work so wouldn't be that hard," She opened the Aloe and put some of it on her arms. Luna what are you doing? You know you are in a store right? She let out a sigh of relief as the jello like substance cooled her arms. "much better" she mumbled.

"You work nights, huh? In a troll joint, or one of those 'graveyard shift' sorta things?" She stretched out over the counter, before laying her head in one her hands. The other rested on her elbow, as she yawned again. "I'm just up 'cos my matesprit's out, he's been working more'n usual. We'll even out again in a few days, but neither of us're in sync right now." [/container]

Luna blushed a bit, but again you couldn't tell because of her crispy skin. "Well I uh, um...." fuck Luna think think, well that was no use, she was a bad liar when she wasn't stoned, and here she was really stoned. "You see I'm a....stripper," She blinked and made a popping sound with her mouth. She was a great A idiot that was for sure.

Hilorm blinked slowly, giving an over-acted impression of... not being shocked. "Yeah, I see it. That burn's not gonna help you out none, I can practically gua-ran-tee. In fact..." a slow smile spread across her face, before she jerked her head back briefly. "I got some stuff in the back, experimental-type shit. Far as I know, it'll slough off that burn in minutes. It'll sting like fuck, though." Seadweller mafia benefits, not that Luna needed to know that. Of course those guys had some way to keep from burning, underwater though they may be. Why should the laws of the Alternian sun apply to them? Loada assholes, as Hilorm would think. [/container]

Luna blinked, oh god she was right. If she dried to dance like this her whole body would be in agony. She bit the inside of her cheek, concerting the trolls offer. On one hand, if it worked the pain would be gonzo and she could go to work without a hitch. On another, if it didn't she might get seriously hurt, or worse. Luna tapped her foot, fuck it what did she have to loose. Well a lot actually but lets not think about that. "Alright-"

Excellent. The stuff had never been tested out on humans, but what's the worst that could happen? She stood, stretching-- revealing... more fish tattoos on her arm, and reached for a jacket she had hanging behind the counter. Putting it on, she spoke; "So, I said the back, I mean a little farther back than you might be thinking. You'll be fine, it's just a little chilly in there." Propping up the prop-up section of the counter, you know the one, the bit you can... prop up, so people can go through. I have no idea what it's called. "You coming?" She asked, as she unlocked the door behind the counter-- the key was in the door-- into a back room. Presumably not into wherever she and Gabben lived, considering there were also stairs leading upward, just your regular old spooky back room. [/container]

She nervously waddled after Hilorm, and held her stuff. Whatever it would be better than burning, because the burning really sucked. She looked at the stair case, she smiled because it was nice when people lived where they worked. It meant they must really like their job if they were willing to live RIGHT there. Or maybe it was just a convenience thing, she liked to think the first option though, it was nicer.

The room was dark... until Hilorm flicked the switch, then it was just a normal room. A closed window, boxes stacked against a couple of the walls, it was clearly storage. And a weird trapdoor on the floor, which Hilorm opened up to reveal a ladder. "Sorry for the, inconvenience. There's just stuff way down there, you know how it is... You can come if you want, it won't take too long." She left the door in the floor open, as she began descending the ladder. It wasn't tremendously long, but it did lead to a tunnel-- one that emerged directly into the ocean, out past anyones' usual beach swimming range. A discreet entrance for seadwellers, though Hilorm had honestly just forgotten to bring a couple of the boxes up. [/container]

Luna set her bag down and looked down the hole, oh this was so cool. She hadn't really been one for being involved with the mafia or anything close to that, so this hole oh how it called to her. She giggled quietly before following the troll down to the latter. when she was at the bottom she watched Hilorm with excited eyes.

Unfortunately for anyone's possible mafia dreams, it really was a boring tunnel. Kind of cold, damp, though well-lit enough. Rummaging through one of the boxes, Hilorm drew out a bottle of what sure looked like sunscreen, despite the fact that is definitely was not. The tunnel itself stretched a short distance, ending in a locked door. An airlock lay behind it, before the open ocean. Not that the seadwellers didn't have their own routes through the water, but that was out of Hilorm's control.
"This is the stuff, wanna go back up, or, open it up down here...?" She wasn't sure why she was asking, who would really want to sit in the weird totally-non-mafia-related tunnel? [/container]

"oh I'll just put it on down here," She gently took the bottle and looked it over. She kind of felt like a lab rat as she opened the bottle and put some on her hand and rubbed it on her arms and stomach. If this really hurt all that bad, it was probably a good idea that Luna decided to stay down there. She could handle a broken bone, or a couple, and she could handle bruises and busting up her skin, but when it really came down to it her skin was sensitive . Without the adrenaline high from skating, she was a bit of a wimp.

Alright, sure. Hilorm shoved her hands in the pockets of her jacket, watching as Luna slathered the stuff on her squishy human skin. All she knew was its effect on trolls, which mainly consisted of peeling off a couple layers of skin within minutes, revealing much more tender-- but much less burnt-- new skin. Humans had layers too, right? This gal would be fine. Hopefully. [/container]

Luna immediately teared up, holy fuck did that hurt. She let out a yelp of pain and dropped the bottle in favor of digging her nails into her palm. "ow, oh god ow fuck," She hissed and a couple tears rolled down her cheeks. Oh this was a bad idea, a very very bad idea.

Hilorm grimaced slightly at the reaction. Yikes. "Uh, how're you holding up, there? All it's gonna do is sting like fuck, I promise--" an incredibly empty promise, considering the circumstances-- "you just gotta wait it out." Humans did have different skin, didn't they. Not that she hadn't seen comparable reactions from trolls, but those were usually the sorts with practically no pain tolerance. [/container]

She whined out, "Oh my god this hurts," she took a deep breath trying to calm herself down. This was fine it was just a little pain it's alright everything's alright. She let out another yelp of pain. "ah oh god"

Yeah, she'd be fine. Hilorm mostly watched on placidly, before stepping back to take a seat on one of the boxes. It was too cold for her liking down here, and practically cemented her thoughts that those seadwellers must be coldblooded or something to deal with it. Good thing that stuff didn't turn out to be horribly corrosive to human skin or anything, that'd suck on multiple levels. [/container]

It stopped burning and Luna let out a sigh of relief. "Oh my god that was awful," she chuckled and wiped the tears from her face. Sure her skin was better now but it was tender and she wasn't sure if she wanted to do that again. I mean she could always call in sick so that the burning wasn't a huge problem, or she could tough her way through it.

"Like I said, it stings like fuck. Now you just gotta wait for the skin to come off, which shouldn't be too bad, just messy. And gross. Shouldn't be too many layers, maybe a couple more'n if you were a troll, but it should be alright." Hilorm was largely talking out of her ass, having absolutely no idea how it would affect humans. But then, she'd basically been right up until now, so... [/container]

"A couple layers," she looked at her skin and almost gagged, "I dont think I have that many," she whined and shook her arms nervously. Oh god never again, she is sticking to regular old aloe. "Ouch, are you sure I'm gonna be okay,"

"Nope." Hilorm shrugged where she was sitting. "Hasn't killed you yet, though, so you'll probably be fine. It doesn't go in too deep, really, it's just gonna peel off some of the top. You're gonna wanna slough it all off, though, before you go 'n' do anything." She was already envisioning the small mounds of damp, dead skin that would indubitably come off the human during a wash. Bluh. [/container]

"Very reassuring," she said sarcastically. Her skin started to calm down, but it looked really weird, and it still felt weird. She took a breath, "yeah I'm not gonna do anything," she was gonna have to call off work to treat this chemical burn. In fact she should probobly go to the hospital, but she was high and didnt really want them to find out about that.

Well, her skin didn't look any more red than when it was all burnt up. As far as Hilorm was concerned, that was a good thing. Maybe a couple blisters, but hey, what's a blister? Especially when you... live underwater... Salt water... which is good for wounds. Hm. "Don't worry 'bout it, you'll be alright, it's not gonna tear off your skin or anything." [/container]

"It feels like it already did" Luna mumbled, and looked around, she pointed to the door, "so whats that?" Luna didn't want to talk about her dead numb skin anymore insted focusing on the weird elephant in the room. It's a door not an elephant but you get the picture. She'd noticed it the moment she got down there but had to do the whole burning her skin off thing first.

"Oh, that? Tunnel out to the sea, makes it easy for diving. Buncha coral 'n' shit down here, cute little tourist-y fish, you know. Sometimes trips go out, this is just a good access spot." She shrugged, absolutely lying. Not that they couldn't run scuba trips through the tunnel, but you can't just go around telling a client that you work with the mob. And sell their shitty skin products. [/container]

Luna nodded and smiled "wow thars so cool, scuba diving sounds like so rad. I mean like being around a those fish and shit, like being under all the water, have you ever done it??" Her mood changed as she got excited at the prospect of scuba diving.

With an ever-present placid smile, Hilorm nodded. "'Course I've been out there, what kinda fishertroll would I be if I hadn't? Mostly in the perigree-times, though, 's colder out 'n' there's less people around. I do like the sun, though, I prefer sitting up on the boat." Nothing could be better than sitting out on the open sea, rods hooked to the boat's railing, soaking in the sun with your matesprit. Man, she loved Gabben. [/container]

Luna smiled happily, she was thinking about all the pretty things Hilorm must have seen. She stood there dazed for a couple moments before looking back at her. "oh I've been down here for a minute haven't I, we should probably like go back up there or something." She said pointing to the latter.

Hilorm nodded, gesturing for Luna to go ahead first. Customer service was of utmost importance, after all! Once they were both up top, she was careful to set the trapdoor back down without too loud of a bang. Leading Luna back out of the back room, she shut the door again, and regained her seat behind the counter. No one else seemed to have walked in, though Hilorm wouldn't exactly put it past someone to waltz in and take something. "So, how's your skin feeling. You're gonna wanna shower, 'course, and slough all the dead stuff off a good few times. Might hafta unclog your drain, bring a li'l stick or something in there to poke the skin through." [/container]

Luna nodded making sure she had her bag, "yeah I'll have to, make sure of all of that," She stretched out one more time before beginning to make her way to the exit of the shop, "Thanks for all of your help" He skin may have been burned off but hey she didn't have to ask for that stuff did she. Luna chuckled at herself and hopped out the door, ready to make her way home for a cold shower, because boy did her skin hurt.

Hilorm waved as she left, before settling back into her spot on the stool. Gabben was still asleep upstairs, of course, she could practically hear him snoring.
Wait.
That human didn't pay for the seadweller's stuff.
She sat up sharp for a moment, before resting her head in her hands again. Whatever, it's not like she took the whole bottle or anything. It was fine.
As long as none of those fish guys asked any questions, and they wouldn't.[/container]

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