AUDIENCE: ZUKO

[retellers]

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week 3, monday

[retellers]

[ zuko will receive a message: ]

Please wait there. Also, if you hope to speak about recent events, please keep in mind that I cannot confirm or deny anyone's teams and therefore cannot verify anything they may have said.

[ fox eventually shows up at the planetarium, looking tired and headache-y, but they knock politely to catch his attention. ]

[cuedoves]

... Hey.

[ he's just been waiting, and luckily he's chilled out a bit since before ]

You guys don't seem to be doing great.

[ thanks, zuko. ]

[retellers]

[ they smile wryly. ]

We'll live. Probably.

[cuedoves]

Yeah, that's very reassuring.

[ ... ]

Want some tea?

[ zuko just out here giving everyone tea ]

[retellers]

If it's not poisoned, sure.

[cuedoves]

.... I'd make a sassy remark, but that new rule is pretty bad.

[ thanks zuko. ]

[ anyway he's heading to the inn kitchen if fox-chan wants to follow and get poisoned ]

[retellers]

Well, I certainly hope everyone will be careful with their wording...

[ please kill them but yeah fox will follow him ]

[cuedoves]

[ the poison for fox. fox's poison. ]

[ but no he'll start on the tea. ]

I know you can't..... say certain things, but, how worried should I be about it?

... If it wasn't already obvious, I don't want any of you to die.

[retellers]

[ ... ]

It doesn't apply to most of us yet. So, don't worry about that, at least.

[cuedoves]

... I've been barricading the rooms I've been in, but... I was thinking around trying out some traps. If you wanna do that, just in case.

[retellers]

I can't say I have much experience in traps.

[cuedoves]

I've got more experience falling into them then making them, but I could probably manage something.

[ pouring the tea and letting it steep... ]

[retellers]

[ a beat, before cheerfully, ]

Hearing that you usually fall into traps isn't going to inspire much confidence in anyone, you know!

[cuedoves]

[ ok zuko deserved that one but also: ]

[ so very flatly ]

I can always test them for you to make you feel more confident.

[retellers]

[ fake whispering to the air, ]

This is inspiring even less confidence...

[cuedoves]

I knew you were going to make fun of me. [ says zuko, who completely invited it!! ]

Ugh, whatever! If you change your mind, I'll be here. Unless I die.

[retellers]

Please try not to?

[cuedoves]

Wow, I didn't know you cared so much, Fox.

[ he's just sassing ]

[retellers]

Are you suggesting I'm not a kind and gracious soul?

[cuedoves]

Your gentle, loving nature and tender kindness towards me drives me to tears.

[retellers]

It tends to do that.

[cuedoves]

[ huffily sets the tea down in front of fox, but not huffily enough that it spills. drink your tea!! ]

Look, I have no intention of dying. I want to you to stay alive and healthy too, so you can keep making your jokes. If you don't want my help, fine. But just.... don't get hurt.

[retellers]

... Thank you. Still, I could be offended that you're so quick to assume I'm the one vulnerable. 𝅘𝅥𝅮

[cuedoves]

It's not just you I'm worried about. You're just very stubborn and like to... put on a big show. [ rabbit narced ] And I know you just lost one of your team members.

[ huffs a little. ]

Besides, at the rate we're dying, sooner or later you'll all be vulnerable.

[retellers]

No more vulnerable than any of you.