No you're not! You're not giving out any more names with X's in them and you're sure as hell not giving out MINE!
[Okay, so maybe it's mostly superstition at this point, but there's no way of knowing how far Xehanort's reach actually goes. Not that he'd want a chicken. Or maybe he would. Creepy bastard.]
Maybe, but you're gonna need a chicken-to-human translator.
[Has Marco seriously not told Roxas about that whole deal yet? It's not Lea's secret to spill, but things are going to go south fast if this keeps up.]
[From his tone, Lea might be able to guess there's some venting coming his way.]
So this guy was talking about a ball on the journal right and he was all 'let's infiltrate' but he wouldn't tell me why unless I went over there so I went over there and he's telling me his plan and it's the stupidest plan you've ever heard, I mean really. He wants people to dress up and interact with the people there or go in as staff, right? That's dumb because people always expect you to know things and really, what do I know about any of that stuff?
[He huffs a little, it's still mildly annoying.]
Then he's like oh well you can pick what you want to do Roxas and I tried to tell him it'd be better to go in in secret right? I mean, recon's not all that hard but once you start making it complicated it can go wrong but he doesn't care and he tells me to pick and well, it's all stupid but orders are orders...
Yeah, well, you're awful short to be going to a Navy ball anyway.
[Lea ruffles Roxas' hair.]
You're not really the "sneak in and mingle to get info" type, either. I get that you want to be right there in the middle of things, but we've all got our specialties.
Yeah, but there's sneaking around and there's sneaking around. For missions like that, you gotta know how to talk to people and get them to tell you what you want to know without them figuring out why you want to know it. You gotta convince them you're one of them. Think you could do that?
[It's Lea's specialty, but it doesn't hit him until after he's done blabbing about it that Roxas doesn't know that.]
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[He gives Lea a look.]
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Sounds accurate to me.
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[He's just going to call it Sir Crapsalot anyway.]
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[Roxas stares at the chick.]
I think I'm going to call it Axel.
[That's what he gets for being mean to the chick.]
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[Okay, so maybe it's mostly superstition at this point, but there's no way of knowing how far Xehanort's reach actually goes. Not that he'd want a chicken. Or maybe he would. Creepy bastard.]
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[Well okay, not Axel, he could concede that.]
Fine, not Axel.
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[Maybe then Ace won't eat it.]
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[Roxas is considering this.]
I don't know, do you think the chick can make fire?
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[But mostly poop.]
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[Roxas pets the head of the baby chick]
Although I could probably make it a hat. Do you think it would like that?
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[Has Marco seriously not told Roxas about that whole deal yet? It's not Lea's secret to spill, but things are going to go south fast if this keeps up.]
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[He grins at Lea, because it is pretty cool.]
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[Lea checks the counter to see if Roxas got it clean enough to work on, then gets out some soap himself and starts scrubbing at it.]
You know there are other people who speak bird, right?
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Ikki said babies don't understand yet, but I'll look after him or her, and yeah, isn't that cool! He said um, Thatch and Ikki and Naesala and...
[Hmm what was that guy's name?]
Marco. That's the guy's name. The guy with the mission.
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[Not a mission to tell Roxas anything, apparently.]
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[From his tone, Lea might be able to guess there's some venting coming his way.]
So this guy was talking about a ball on the journal right and he was all 'let's infiltrate' but he wouldn't tell me why unless I went over there so I went over there and he's telling me his plan and it's the stupidest plan you've ever heard, I mean really. He wants people to dress up and interact with the people there or go in as staff, right? That's dumb because people always expect you to know things and really, what do I know about any of that stuff?
[He huffs a little, it's still mildly annoying.]
Then he's like oh well you can pick what you want to do Roxas and I tried to tell him it'd be better to go in in secret right? I mean, recon's not all that hard but once you start making it complicated it can go wrong but he doesn't care and he tells me to pick and well, it's all stupid but orders are orders...
[He takes a breath.]
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[Because no one has told Lea yet and this sounds like something he should know.]
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[Roxas huffs a little.]
Guard the ship, stay out of the way.
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[Lea ruffles Roxas' hair.]
You're not really the "sneak in and mingle to get info" type, either. I get that you want to be right there in the middle of things, but we've all got our specialties.
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I can sneak around just fine.
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[It's Lea's specialty, but it doesn't hit him until after he's done blabbing about it that Roxas doesn't know that.]
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I don't know, maybe.
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