Zydeca Hive 2} Zydeca and Thresh

Thresh played by Kiki, Zydeca played by Orange

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"So.. you... lost the lusus, yeah?" He sat down in one of the Bean Bags. "Completely lost?"

"YEah, I'm... sorry about that. TUrns out that sedative didn't last nearly as long as I thought it would, and it woke up right before I was able to get into the back room. I Mistook that rustblood for a cop, and wasted time like that. IT was honestly, all pretty stupid." Zyd also sunk into a bean bag chair, glancing up to where slothmom was on her cat tower to make sure she was there. she smiled back at it, half-asleep.
"LOst the other merchandise too, when I ran out. MAybe the guys picked it up, but I doubt the guys really could have hidden the lusus at that point. PLease tell me I didn't just fuck up the biggest job I've ever gotten." It knew that certain lusii must be more valuable than others, and its not like a snake would be a particularly high-blooded lusus anyway. Olive, at best, right?

He sat there silently for a minute, thinking. "Did.. anybody else see it? It's not a huge deal, but. Still some money in it. But we really, really want to make sure nobody saw anything." His eyelid now had a Slight Twitch™️. Stress.

"THresh, you heard me. THe lusus broke out of the bag in front of everyone. IT wasn't too busy in there, I was about to be let in, but the lusus is a giant snake." It stretched its arms out for effect, before slumping further into the bean bag chair. "MOst of the trolls weren't facing us, so it's possible no one else was a direct witness. I'M definitely using a different drop point for the next while, at least."
It hadn't dropped the ball (or as the case may be, the snake) so badly in a good while. This all hopefully wouldn't be enough reason of a to move hives again, that was always such a pain. None of this was going to be the end of the world, right? It could see the headlines now; "stray lusus attacks cafe," something like that. There was always bigger news, anyway, this wouldn't be relevant for long.

"Yeah, okay. We should probably figure out something less.. public. The river might be good. Can you swim at all?" He shifted in his seat a few times. "I think if nobody's tried to contact us yet we should be fine."

"THe river works, yeah. ANd I, uh, can't swim. AT all. CAn you?" It really just assumed Thresh could swim, with little actual basis for that knowledge. "ANd the shop hasn't tried to call me, so you're right, we should be fine." Despite the fact that the purpleblood was hardly relaxed himself, Zyd was somewhat calmed by his words. Yeah, it would be fine. Who would care about a single wild lusus managing to find its way into the city.

He gestured to the very small fins on his ears. He was Up There on the hemospectrum so his body was trying to show how good he was at existing, but the fins are actually pretty useless. They're way too small to actually do anything. It is still unsure if he's saying he can swim or not. "You might want to learn, because if this happens again I'm gonna throw you in there." He stared at Zyd for a few seconds with a completely straight face, before breaking out in laughter. "I'm joking.
But really. Next time, if a lusus breaks loose, we aren't going to kidnap someone, okay? Let me just scare the shit out of whoever saw."

"WEll, it was an accident!" Yeah, an accidental kidnapping. Sure. "I Panicked, okay? THere was a giant snake on the table, man!" It huffed, crossed its arms. "BEsides, that wasn't the end of the world. SHe's just an ironblood, it's not like I grabbed some noble or anything." It took the display of Thresh's fins as confirmation. Maybe it could ask him to teach it how to swim sometime, he'd probably agree. At least if it got him in the right sort of mood.

"Yeah, but.. if she decided to snitch, we would be in way worse trouble than if we had just had the lusus. Kidnapping is a pretty bad crime. I'm sure I could talk them out of it, but you? You may just have to blow up the place to escape." He nodded, as if he were confirming it to himself?

"BLow the place up, huh? YOu think I'd've done that? ANd gotten everyone up my bulge about it? ONe missing ironblood is going too far, but not destroying a building? ANd I know it could get covered up, but still!" They were arguing over could-have-beens at this point, and Zyd knew it. "YOu know I would have gotten away, anyway."

"Yeah, yeah, alright, but when they're interrogating you, my name better not come out your mouth." He poked Zyd in the shoulder for emphasis. Unintentionally hard. He is not good at being playful.

"WHat're moirails for?" Zyd responded, knowing full well that it wouldn't rat Thresh out for the world. Slothmom, just to check on her real quick, was mostly asleep up in her cat tower. Vaguely keeping an eye on the two, but mostly asleep. "BEsides, again, you know I would have gotten out anyway. MIght have had to move for a while, but it's not that big of a deal."

"I might have to sabotage you so that you have to move a little bit closer to me. It's a pain in the ass to walk all the way over here." He obviously has no idea how to use any sort of vehicle, including a bike.

"HEy, you know this is a temporary arrangement, until this hiveblock actually gets leased to someone. I Could find a closer place then, if you really want me to." It had been to Thresh's hive before, and knew it had... a very different aesthetic than its own temporary setups. And the neighborhood wouldn't be terribly easy to get into. Hardly mattered, though, really.

"Do it. You know I'm bad about checking my messages and I miss everything. It'd make communication much easier." He stretched and popped his knuckles before getting up. "Speaking of which, we should head over there. Just in case someone did see you, you can chill at my place for a bit."

Zyd took a moment to properly sit up, before getting out of its bean bag. "THat's a good idea, really. JUst in case." It walked over to slothmom's cat tower and picked her up, holding her still until she situated herself on its horns. Double set of horns, an extra pair of limbs, it all worked out. "WE're walking?"

"Yeah. And, well, do you have any other way to get there?" he asked, sounding sarcastic, yet being entirely genuine. He held a hand out to suggest he would like to give slothmom a gentle Pat on the Head.

Zyd tilted its head forward, to allow slothmom to be pet. "FAir point, fair point. IT's not like I have a vehicle, either." It made a mental list of some of the things it would need to bring, in one of its backup bags. Slothmom herself, of course, food for her, its husktop...

He pet slothmom, satisfied. God, he loves slothmom. "I'm sure we could get someone to take us there. I know a few contacts.
But we should probably stop at the store and grab some stuff. My house isn't super prepared to have someone stay over." His house is barely prepared to have himself stay over. It's so empty.

"YEah, I hear you, I was going to grab some stuff out of the thermal hull." It walked around the hive block with its bag, packing light for the next few days. It finished with its husktop, sliding it neatly among the rest of its stuff. "YOu're ready, right?"

"Yeah, I'm ready. You just need to ignore all the mess in my room, okay?" He put his hand on the doorknob and pulled his phone out. "Do you want me to get someone to take us there, or should we walk?"

"WHatever's easiest for you, Thresh." Zyd didn't mind carrying its bag and lusus around, wasn't the heaviest load or the farthest distance it'd gone for any regular job. As long as Thresh wasn't going to flip out on the way.

"Alright. I'll give someone a call."

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