glockenspiel | [PSLs] Mixed Bag

Rock climbing? I'm up for that.

[More often than not, she's up for practically anything.]

It sounds like you can really do just about whatever you want, here. It's... something else I'm going to have to get used to.

Yeah, it's a ton of freedom. It can definitely get a bit dull if you're the action-y type, but there's always something or other going on.

I'm pretty much an action-y type. Maybe I should see if there's a job in security, or something like that.

Yeah, for sure. There is some crime, and people do get rowdy sometimes. I'd try to stay away from non-native establishments, though. Even little scuffles get us in trouble, so people are really on their best behavior.

What kind of trouble are we talking about? We could get kicked out?

[She's not looking for that kind of tumbling anyway, but who knows what could happen. She's always too happy to go ahead guns - well, spear - blazing, punching before talking. She's going to need to adjust to a lot of things here, and it's - kinda exciting.]

Yeah. Like, a friend of mine was stoned out of her mind and punched me in the face, so I broke her nose. City officials gave both of us a pretty stern talking to.

Wow, that's a good friendship you guys have.

[She smirks, teasing.

Then again, Aranea is not one to talk. Although she wasn't friends with the boy band when they fought, and they were just a job. They opened her eyes, though.]

I don't take well to being punched in the face when I'm trying to help someone.

[ She shrugs. Obviously she is taking blame for the incident. Harley was pretty high. ]

I'm not blaming you. I'm just wondering, really, what kind of friendship it is where you guys just go at each other.

So fucked up that I'm actually embarrassed to be seen with her.

So she's not really your friend. [Aranea raises an eyebrow, taking another sip of Champagne. She doesn't really know that kind of shame, but it doesn't sound like friendship.]

[ She frowns at her wine. ]

It's... complicated.

[ It's not complicated Steph, you were just very horny and a bit drunk. She takes a few very large sips of her wine. She needs it. ]

[Aranea's eyebrow goes even higher, and she crosses her legs, leaning closer to Stephanie.]

If you say so. A relationship can be a lot of things without being a friendship, you know. Especially if they're complicated.

I know that. I just... I don't know. It's not important, anyway.

[It feels important to Aranea. Either it means Stephanie is too quick to call someone a friend - naive, or too trusting? Or it means there is more to the story she isn't willing to share. Either or, it's something Aranea notes, for herself.]

I wonder if any of my friends are here. [She looks around the room for a moment, then shrugs.] Although I can make plenty of new ones.

You'll just have to ask around, probably. If they're not at this party, that is.

Maybe I will. Or I'll check this dating app thing. Could find them there, right? Not that I want to date them, mind you.

[Better clarify that. She wouldn't mind going out with say, Ignis or Gladio, but she's far from sold on the same with Noctis or Prompto.]

You can check, but it's all random selection. In the mean time, though, it's a good way to meet people.

Yeah? Met a lot that way yourself?

[Aranea is not used to using any kind of digital network to make acquaintances, but she can work with it.]

Yeah! Some really good friends, too.

[ She has... not actually hooked up with most of them, because she is bad at one night stands. ]

Huh. Interesting.

[Aranea leans back on the couch after putting her now empty glass on the coffee table in front of them.

Then, she leans closer to Steph - not in a seductive way, but more as a need to keep things sort of semi-private, considering where they are.]

So I can be picky with whom I talk to, right?

[From what she's gathered, she can. But it's good to hear all of that stuff confirmed by someone who's been living here for a while.]

Oh yeah, that's the whole point! Just ignore anybody who sounds like a creep.

They let creeps come in? Although I guess there are different strokes for different people...

They'll let just about anyone in as long as they play by the rules.

Well, talk about a glowing review of the city, Stephanie. Do you think the rules are too lax?

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