Dicklivery Service

[kokuryuu]

🧙 WHO: Souma and Jongdae
⚔️️ WHAT: Spotted Dick Mission. Two idiots with feelings sharing a tent, what could go wrong.
🕒 WHEN: right now
🗺️ WHERE: Ash Mountains
⚠️ WARNINGS: I predict language and suggestive themes.

[As the day drew to a close and the shadows were at their longest, Souma was steadily moving along at a speed normal sane people would continue strenuous. His gait had been this same speed all day, and he had never really broken a sweat. In fact, he rather looked like he were out for a constitutional in a park rather than climbing a tall grassy mountainside.

Every now and then he stopped to see if Jongdae were still with him, at first anyway. By now he was fascinated with the mountain in the oncoming twilight and he had stopped paying attention to anyone or anything else at all. This place was a bit like his home!

Souma was excited to peer behind each boulder or explore each tree. He chuckled to see each furry little orange caterpillar drop from the trees above like a tiny dive-bombing bird of prey. Every mud puddle or orb spider's web captivated him. ]

It is becoming dark.

[He says this while watching a large black and yellow spider lower itself from an ash tree on a thin line of silk. It's so amazing!!]

I think that this cleaning is a good place to camp. We should eat the evening meal. Sleep. I hear water from over there-- [He points to the trees to the left.] A small river. Smells clean.

Comments

[itsjiaheng]

[ jongdae has done his best throughout to keep up, not wanting to look weak or embarrass himself. he's done pretty well, all things considered — like the fact that just because he's still part-manticore, it doesn't mean he's still actually a monster with 'monster perks' — but he's sure to feel how hard he's been pushing himself later. how did souma do it??? was he secretly a machine when he wasn't a kelpie??? jongdae would be impressed if he wasn't working so hard. it's times like these he really missed having wings. it's probably only that souma stopped to look at things so often that allowed him to maintain his pace because it meant he had time for a breather more often than he might have otherwise. ]

Is it..? That's cool. [ it's debatable if he's even fully parsed what souma said, at least at first. give him a few seconds. ] Uh—...

[ wait. camp? ]

Here? But there's... like bugs out here? Where are we supposed to sleep?

[ this is maybe an obvious sort of question, but in his experience, even doing things out in the "field", there had always been a place to stay. he worked for a multi-billion dollar corporation at one point. their field teams were very well-equipped. he's never been camping by the normal people's definition.

as he drags his feet to catch up to souma, he notices the spider and manages to find the energy to back away quickly. ]

Holy shit. And why are the spiders so big?! The spider-iest clearing doesn't look like a good place, to be honest...