Shoot Your Shot, Idiot

[mansbestend]

Sender: Denji
To: Everyone
Subject: Heads up?

[The top of the page is... weird. It's stained red at the top corner, and it was creeping in about an inch or two before it stopped. Touching it does nothing as it just feels like paper. Someone spilled ink. Or something. Hours later, there's writing:]


its me again
no ass-kicking requests this time, sorry to disappoint
I wanna try lookin for a friend who shows up in my dreams sometimes so its dreamwalk time

dont know how its gonna go, but if you see alleys or bits of Tokyo sometime soon that's me, ignore it

also if you're a lazy fuck and want lunch, dinner, groceries or coffee delivered to your place, write to me. givin part-time work a shot. i can take your stuff over, or if you want my dog can bring it. i mean, who doesn't want a cute dog bringin them coffee, right?

Maple Leaf is really big but she's nice. likes people.

anyway thats all I got.

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Sender: Denji
To: Octavia of the Ars Goetia
Subject: [Untitled]

[This is written really tiny. Super fuckin' tiny, and in a corner of the page. He went out of his way to try and sneak this over-]

hey so if you're not busy sometime, would you be down for hangin out goin out on some stuff?

[Fuck. This was harder than he thought.]

Comments

[mansbestend]

Got it

Gimme directions from the center of town and I've got you in half an hour

[bakudan_bambino]

Are you pretty new around here too or something?

Northwest from the Plaza. My treehouse has a ladder off the back porch, and it’s pretty plain. There’s a door to it as well, but that area so far is inaccessible and hazardous. It’s marked pretty far out with caution tape, so it should be hard to miss. Just walk around and take the ladder up, ok?

[mansbestend]

not too new, been here a couple months or so, never thought to track the days tho

OK, I'll keep all that in mind. I taught her how to knock, so she'll letcha know when she's there

you fight big crazy things back home? this job you're after gets kinda rough what with the nightmares people cook up in their heads

[bakudan_bambino]

really? Do you think most other people do? (Track their days)

She’ll have to take the rope ladder before knocking on the door. She can do all that?

Yeah, unfortunately.

[mansbestend]

the ones that wanna go home would, I guess

oh, I can help her with that but she'll make that delivery. she wants friends real bad

[bakudan_bambino]

I wouldn’t say I want to go home, but it’s just good to know.

Okay I just don’t want her to get blown up. I’m serious when I say it’s hazardous.

[mansbestend]

yeah don't blow up my dog, dude

I'll bodyguard then

[bakudan_bambino]

I don’t want to blow anyone up. But I don’t think dogs read signs or keep away from caution tape the same way people do, y’know?

I like animals.

[mansbestend]

She has me read stuff for her, so it's fine

I can talk to her

[bakudan_bambino]

That’s very kind of you?

Anyone can talk to animals.

[mansbestend]

Really? I heard it was weird to be able to understand em

It's all meows, woofs, chirps and shit back home

[bakudan_bambino]

Oh well it’s different if they talk back to you and you understand them. You didn’t say that.

[mansbestend]

yeah dreamotion magic or whatever thought itd be hilarious that I can talk to dogs

but that's fine, I'm a dog person

[bakudan_bambino]

Only dogs?

Like… someone who likes dogs or ACTUALLY a dog-person?

[mansbestend]

Seems so. Maybe I can talk to wolves. Haven't tried

Both I guess?? Long story

[bakudan_bambino]

Both? Seriously?!

[He’s laughing, but that can’t be conveyed well so his cursive is a bit shaky]

[mansbestend]

Bark bark

Pets are free for girls only

[bakudan_bambino]

I don’t wanna pet you, PERVERT!!!

[mansbestend]

and take away from Maple? never

anyway, I see all the tape. I'm gonna help her up the ladder

Switch to action here?

[bakudan_bambino]

[Gokudera leans over the railing of his porch-entrance and frowns down at the other teen trying to help his dog up a ladder.]

YOU WANT ME TO JUST LIFT YOU BOTH UP HERE INSTEAD?

[He shouts down at them. After a little movement and a flurry of flames, there’s a disc made of some kind of energy gliding down, then widening to accommodate Denji and Maple. Gokudera’s got his eye on it and if Denji persists, then it’s fine but… he at least has to offer a little more kindness. For the dog’s sake if any.]

yup!

[mansbestend]

[It was an unusual sight, a very large dog piggybacking the teenager as he ascended the ladder. But he blinked up in surprise with the shout and the offered... disc.]

...Aww, I was given a challenge and everything!

But you are kinda heavy, Mapes.

[The dog whined in protest. But he shifted to let the big green dog on the object and he'd take to continuing on the ladder. Besides... she has the order in the bag slung to her side anyway.]

She's not chunky or whatever, but she was a puppy like three weeks ago...

[bakudan_bambino]

Yeah but I don’t want to imagine her getting hurt!

[Gokudera’s got his own ‘pet’ to take care of, and as someone who’s said on network that he likes animals, will be damned if he were to let anything happen to Maple.

The disc isn’t moving fast, and the teen doesn’t seem particularly strained bringing her up and over the railing of his balcony. He lowers it right to the floor so Maple won’t even have to step down, only forward, and the disc vanishes behind her. He moves to one knee, just wants to make sure she’s okay before he stands up to talk to Denji.]

Did she come from this world?