AUDIENCE: BLANCA

[retellers]

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[papasha]

We're looking for the final piece. The wily one that doesn't want to be found. Maybe they can't be, as a condition.

Your team is the only one without one of us.

[retellers]

[ there's a beat ]

Have you tried looking harder?

[ deadpan. ]

[papasha]

[He expected this, so he just smiles a bit.]

Don't worry, we're still looking. It just makes it a little harder when you six tell all of us very conflicting things. So we end up having to all come to ask you to see if you'll tell us anything different.

We didn't know you loved visits from us so much.

[retellers]

[ they. tilt their head, crossing their arms ]

What have we said that's different?

[papasha]

Want to prove me wrong?

Does your team have a role?

[retellers]

Never said I didn't.

[ this is the funniest thing thats ever happened to me ]

[papasha]

I know. But I expect you delivered it much like Fox delivers a lot of their lines, too. Right?

I understand you all are protecting us. But we're running out of time, and we can't waste it on our own misunderstandings.

[if only i could get things icly, i would not have to play a himbo who is embarrassing]

[retellers]

I told Lup she'd have to work harder to find the last one than she had to for the others. You guys can interpret things how you want.

[ it's been a great ride for me and a terrible one for wolf ]

[papasha]

[me as wolf, honestly]

Is it because it's someone she isn't close to?

[retellers]

You seriously need a hint?

[papasha]

Well, not now. There are only three left.

So it's either Lup playing a long con, or a fifty-fifty chance for Miss Clementine. Though I suppose that may be the duty's intention, in the end.

[retellers]

Seriously don't know what's stopping you guys from asking them.

[papasha]

If I had to chance a guess, probably the fact we're certain they aren't going to confess to it.

[retellers]

Maybe your guess isn't as right as you think. What have you got to lose, if you're so desperate?

[papasha]

[i'm going to fucking strangle flurry i swear to god]

I suppose you're right. I'll mention it to them. Or Lup rather. So she can put in some extra work.

[retellers]

[ laughs for ten years ]

About time she does. [ they sound. very amused, for some reason ]

[papasha]

If you praise her, though, she'll get spoiled and want you to tell her all the time.

[retellers]

Don't I know it. [ you show a shred of niceness ONCE and you can NEVER LIVE IT DOWN AGAIN ] You can spoil her for both of us.

[papasha]

Well now, who is going to spoil me then?

I don't mind if you help. I'll look the other way.

[retellers]

[ (unsure) ]

No thanks. She expects it more from you anyway.

[papasha]

You don't give yourself enough credit, Wolf. I think she loves getting spoiled from a lot of different people, you included. She spent a long time without anything really.

Is it really so wrong to give a beautiful woman the love and attention she wants?

[retellers]

[ blanca, why are you like this. ]

I'm not the spoiling kind, alright? If she's expecting it from me, she's barking up the wrong tree. And you guys are... [ vague gesture that maybe means dating ]

[papasha]

[He like women a lot.]

Are we? [He looks amused.] She gave me permission to flirt with you.

[retellers]

What?

[papasha]

[His shoulders shrug faintly.]

Her Highness, Lup, has decreed it. I'll be nice and won't. Unless you want me to.