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WHO: Everyone!
WHAT: Mingle!
WHERE: Somewhere in the city
WHEN: Day 3, morning

[It's a beautiful morning in this part of Coba! The sun is shining, the birds are singing - or at least they were until a few seconds ago. Suddenly, the city is plunged into darkness again, and the streets start to fill with people dressed in outrageous costumes. There's music in the air and all traffic is stopped for the parade of revellers heading down the street. Anyone from New Orleans might find the spectacle rather familiar, but for anyone else it's still an excuse to party like the night never ended]

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Oh! I'm Sugar. Let's see, I think I saw an ice cream place a little ways back. Maybe it's because ice cream was on my mind... But I had some clothing shopping to do and then I got distracted by this parade! Let's see if the ice cream place's still there.

Sounds sweet! [He grins to himself at the pun] Let's get going, Sugar. I'll let you lead the way since you know where you're going more than I do.

Alright, Hibiki! I think it was over here...

[And she leads the way, looking around until she recognizes a familiar storefront. It's got a sign up top with a cute frog.]

Ah! This is it!

[Aww, he smiles at the frog sign. Frogs weren't as good as rabbits, but this one was still cute. Not sure what frogs had to do with ice cream, though...]

Aw, it looks like a nice place! Well, ladies first!

[He goes to hold the door open for her]

Why, thank you!

[She steps inside and quickly begins looking around at the ice cream flavors on display, trying to decide which ones to choose.]

[He follows in after her, taking a cursory look around the ice cream parlor to get familiar with it. It's a big shop, done in a bright, colorful style with lots of cute mascots (including the frog) painted on the walls, lots of seating, and the holy motherload of ice cream displays.

It's the displays of ice cream that really grab his attention, and he moves up to read the little signs for each flavor, muttering some of them to himself as he does so.]

Blueberry, kiwi, mango, mango-kiwi, triple chocolate, peanut butter chocolate chip, mint chocolate...

[In a louder tone of voice:]

There's too many flavors! I'll have to live here and try each one.

Well, you can just go home and then come back anytime you like. I've been doing that a lot. And it seems like time doesn't pass while you're here!

[She continues glancing over the ice cream selections until she's ready to make her order.]

I'll have mango-kiwi, rainbow cotton candy, mint chocolate, almond fudge, lemon custard, pink bubblegum, and triple raspberry.

[She completes her rather large order and pulls out her wallet.]

[He definitely perks up at the mention of her leaving and time not passing. Forget ice cream, here was information! He'll wait until she's finished paying first, though, and shoots off his order after she's done.]

Vanilla and blueberry, please. [His order is a lot more modest than hers, and while he'd be commenting otherwise, there's something he wants to know first.]

About what you just said. Time doesn't pass while you're here? Are you saying that— [Wait, no, he isn't 100% sure what she's saying.] Actually, could you explain?

I'll tell you how I found out! I checked my clock before I came here. I then looked at it again after I returned after several hours in this city, and it didn't move that much. Maybe a couple of minutes, about the time it took to walk out of and into my home. And it wasn't the next day or anything like that, I checked.

[She begins stuffing herself with the multiple bowlfuls of ice cream she had gotten from her order.]

[He gets his ice cream as she speaks, but rather than eating it, he stares at it thoughtfully.]

I see... So it's like your home went on pause when you weren't in it. Then what about Coba? Did the same thing happen here when you were at home?

Come to think of it, I don't know what happens to Coba when I'm not here. I'll have to see if I can find a clock here and check!

[After speaking, she resumes eating.]

[So she doesn't know either... He considers this as he finally takes nibble at his ice cream—which is absolutely delicious.]

This is delicious! There's pieces of blueberry in the blueberry!

[He's questioned her enough. Now is ice cream time.]

This is quite delicious, yes!

[She's rather enjoying her own ice cream, stuffing it into her mouth at a rate that really should be giving her brain freeze, but she doesn't seem distressed.]

[Y-yeah, the speed at which she's utterly decimating her ice cream is impressive and rather scary.]

Woah. It's like watching a vacuum...

[She pauses in vacuuming down her ice cream.]

Oh, sorry, I tend to do that sometimes!

You must be a champion speed eater! Can you taste the ice cream eating that fast?!

I can!

[Where it's going, she can taste it until it's completely digested. But she isn't going to get into that. It'd require explaining her weird nature.]

[...Yeah, it's best if she didn't explain that to him. He still hasn't finished his ice cream.]

That's...really impressive! Sorry, but I'm going probably take a long time compared to you.

That's alright! You can just take your time.

Thanks!

[And he will, taking bites of his ice cream as he thinks about various things he's encountered in the city. And about her, too, since he's kind of concerned about her being out alone. She seems kind of young, but she also seems independent enough... He could just ask her straight out where her parents were, but he's going to try for a little more tact than that right now.]

Are you native to Coba, or are you out here on a vacation with your family?

[She does slow down, taking lighter bites so that she finishes at about the same time as him. It's always good to take ones time!

She does her own reflections. She'd met so many interesting people here, though some of them did seem a bit young. Well, they were teenagers, they could probably take care of themselves!

She pauses at his question.]

Ah! Actually, my daughter's back at home. She'll be okay, though, given how time doesn't pass. Maybe I should bring her along sometime.

[He ALMOSTS chokes on his ice cream at that statement. As it stands, his ice cream still didn't go down smoothly, and Hibiki struggles to keep a neutral face as he tries to get the ice cream he's eaten to go down the right tube. It takes a little while before he manages a reply.]

You don't look like a mom.

[She look waaaaay too young to be mom. Oh god. What did he stumble upon.]

I know! Maybe I should've picked an older appearance. It certainly would make some things easier. But this kind of body takes time and work to make and anyways it's cute.

Anyways, I'm older than I look.

[...Okay, there's at least three things in what she said that Hibiki really wants to ask, but a part of him isn't sure if he wants to know.

So he just takes another bite of ice cream and waits for that to go down before replying.]

I feel like I missed something important along the way. How old are you...?

To be quite honest, I'm not sure. I wasn't properly aware for a good chunk of it. Records of me do go back at least a century. You could say that I'm inexperienced for my age, though! After all, like I said, I spent a lot of time not being properly aware.