[LN] Thank Goodness We're Well-rounded Characters

[matchmadeinhell]

Kon was reading at relative superspeed. It wasn't at his usual brisk pace, because he found that the limitations of his powers meant he couldn't retain the knowledge for more than a few minutes at his usual speeds, so he had to slow it down a little, but he was still thumbing through far faster than some of the others were taking just to go through the study guides they'd quickly procured.

"Is it just the fact I'm reading this as superspeed or does this story make no sense?" Kon said, as he thumbed through page after page.

Another reality shard had fallen away and now that their brands had signaled it, it was time to go dimension-hopping. Fortunately, it was a very small shard in the middle of the wilderness in Siberia and the area of effect was spreading slowly, so they had time to prepare.

With his otherworldly wisdom, Manny had managed to help out on this one, communicating some clues about the world they were about to enter by flashing the image of a cover of a book.

A fairly terrible book. Apparently they were entering the world it was based on.

So they were doing their homework as they geared up to go and trying to make sense of the senseless.

"So what I'm getting from this is this is a world where you're not allowed to have more than one personality trait? I think? Under pain of death, you have to be a one-dimensional character."

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[mark_in_the_sands]

His whisper poured into her ear like honey, trickling down to meet the answering warmth that rose in her chest. He hadn't been the first boy she'd had a crush on, hadn't even been the first boy she had a crush on when puberty hit, but he'd always been good at making her heart go pitter-pat at surprising moments. Like now, apparently.

She hadn't want to put pressure on him -- goodness knew he'd been through enough stuff that she'd have felt horrible bringing it up herself -- but she'd be lying if she'd said she didn't miss that part of their relationship too.

She smiled as she fell in to stand next to him, pressing her palm to his outer thigh.

"Let's find out if we can take off the masks," she whispered back, voice pitched at a low purr. "Sixteen's cute, but it's not really my thing anymore."

[matchmadeinhell]

Oh yes. Hands. Hands on places. He wanted more of that. More hands. Yes, the tingly feelings were back. Finally. Finally.

Kon suddenly closed his eyes, his throat making a whining sound as he held in a laugh.

It took him a moment before he could actually stop laughing enough to whisper it.

"Trying to figure out how to word that one to ask Nico."

She could barely stand the two of them being silly and saccharine with each other.

[mark_in_the_sands]

Cassie snickered herself, curling her fingers to rasp her nails across the cloth of his pants.

"She might just turn us into fluffy bunnies," she agreed. "But probably not for too long -- we've still got a job to do, after all."