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She snorted before holding up a bag in her hand. Not to sound too cocky....however -

"and more." She set it down before taking a step back and stretching, "Even got a log pose."

It took her a moment before going to find a seat, tilting her head back and settling in the silence quite nicely until she broke it, turning to look at him.

better than dealing with the clown.

She tossed her soaking wet hair back before looking in Rose's direction, shrugging and going back to her impromptu swim. Florence wasn't looking for them to come back and hit the road anytime soon so...

"Nothin you haven't seen before...~" She swam over to some rocks and pulled herself up onto them, "I'm surprised you haven't joined me, the water's fine.~"

It was normal to go swimming nude in the middle of the woods, right? Course it was. No one around to see...unless that's what they wanted.

"Or are you just admiring from afar~? I don't mind that either, sweetie~" Noah hummed before slipping back into the water and going under again before she submerged at the edge of the lake.

"Your Alchemy reminds me of someone I once knew."

Lara looked up from wiping down a table as she glanced at Lynette. "Or...kinda knew. It was a long time ago, I don't even know if he's alive. But I would recognize Lightning alchemy anywhere." She finally righted herself.

"VAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAL." And in comes tumbling the radio show host, holding her phone and running right into her, panting before shoving it in her face.

"Look. at. this. LOOK."

She pointed at the article pulled up on her phone- "can you BELIEVE this shit??? Shinra REALLY has the GALL to do THIS to US." Kyu pulled her phone back and scrolled a little. "Did they seriously think saying they're upping the reactor security would deter us??? Or is that just some gimmick for them to say 'oooh come get us'- FUCKERS!!!!!"

A pause.

"Yooouuu are brave bothering me on my break." She tilted her newspaper down as she looked up at Tim, brows creasing slightly as she began tapping her foot in the air.

"You finally admit I was right." She pushed herself up off the rubble she had been sitting on recovering from the Aushwalhen, taking a moment to regain her balance before she continued. "...how much of your pride did you have to sacrifice to admit that?"

Noah just stayed where she was, looking at him- as beat up as she was, and yet all she could do is shake her head in disbelief.

"Where was that when I mentioned he'd sacrifice us for his goals before this happened? Or were you just in the same boat as Jugram?" She twisted the ring on her finger as her gaze went up to the giant hole in the sky...

[what have you really gotten yourself into, Jugram...?]

"you don't get to...." Noah stopped herself and sucked in a breath before she exhaled. "...you don't get to finally admit I'm right when I said this would happen SO many times." She pushed her hair out of her face finally and took a moment to recollect herself.

✦ ⋆ 𖤓 ⋆ ✦ 𝐁𝐋𝐎𝐎𝐃 𝐎𝐍 𝐘𝐎𝐔𝐑 𝐒𝐋𝐄𝐄𝐕𝐄 // Accepting!

Her eyes just darted to him after a second before she found herself in her usual spot of misery- face down on the sofa.

"mm. I might've gotten shiv'd while I was out today. maybe not." She mumbled, turning her head to look at him...as terrible of a sight as he was.

"...don't say a word about it to anyone, I'll be fine." Her head finally turned back to stay face down on the sofa as her grip on her side tightened slightly, protectively.