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[fiddlestick]

Elliot Craig

[MUFFLED VIOLIN MUSIC IN THE DISTANCE]

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[fiddlestick]

I-It's okay! I'm pretty used to this!

[And up and away! Like a good passenger, he only makes the smallest of yelps as they go up in the sky, as not to distract Sanji from what he's doing]

[concasse]

[Sanji will need the concentration, to be honest. It's not the flying that's got him worried, but ever accidentally jump into a building you didn't even know was there?

Yeah.

Yeah.

That's not what happens, thankfully, as Sanji's learned to rely on the wind and how it cuts between buildings as a warning, but at some point he slows them until they're kinda hovering in place.]

Oi, Elliot, could you fling some paint to your left?

[fiddlestick]

[Yeah please don't ram us into an invisible building Sanji]

On it!

[Holding out his brush, he'll conjure a mass of water around it. It engulfs the brush and soaks up the paint. Once it's ready, he'll let it fly to his left- making a big splatter that reveals a decent amount of the area around them

Mages man.]

[concasse]

[YEAH WHAT THE HELL, HIS BRUSH DON'T DO THAT.]

-- Oi, do you got a bigger paint brush than me?

[How dare, Sanji is like two sizes bigger? He demands justice]

[fiddlestick]

Huh?

Oh...I don't think so? I'm just using magic to help boost the output a little.

[concasse]

Oooh.

... So you''re a wizard.

[fiddlestick]

Um...yeah?

[concasse]

But can you make shit levitate?

[Listen, these are the important questions. Sanji must know Elliot's resume.]

[fiddlestick]

Haha...no. I'm afraid I'm not as cool as a flying pirate.

[concasse]

[--uh.

What no take it back]

Oi, come on, wizards are universally cool. Pretty sure that shit's the law.

[A-anyway he should keep flying, yeah, gonna do that, leaving the rather large splatter of paint behind them, like it's just hovering mid-air.]

[fiddlestick]

[Yeah keep flying! Elliot will occasionally throw out more paint splatters as they move]

Not as cool as pirates!

And I'm a band geek, remember? That automatically cancels out any coolness.

[concasse]

Except you can play pretty much any instrument you wanna!!

[Huffing like he's explaining basic math to someone] You can't tell me that doesn't net you some points back. Most shitheads can't even play a kazoo.

[fiddlestick]

Sure, but my favorite's classical stuff! In coolness ranking, the only thing lower is the accordion.

It's okay you're cooler than me Sanji! I don't mind, and I think you're cool!

[TAKE THE COMPLIMENT YOU COOL FLYING PIRATE!!!!]

[concasse]

[UM NO HE IS NOT TAKING COMPLIMENTS, WHAT KIND OF MAN DO YOU TAKE HIM FOR--

And at first it might seem like Sanji's so prepared to die on this hill that that's why he comes to a sudden halt in the air, switching from jumping forward to hovering in place, except his expression is slack with shock (not that Elliot can really see, but--)]

... Oi.

My musician was a skeleton.





[... que? ( ಠ_ಠ)]

[fiddlestick]

What?

[concasse]

-- A skeleton!

[Holy shit, his head swivels to the side, still not able to really see Elliot but voice lit with excitement nonetheless.]

Like... eight feet tall? Maybe nine? But he was playing a piano and told me he could play an instrument you gave 'im!

[fiddlestick]

A-An eight foot tall skeleton that could play any instrument? Wow, that's...

[Crazy? Insane? Cool???]

...H-How could he play a wind instrument without lungs though?

[#PRIORITIES]

[concasse]

Shit if I know. Nothing in that world made sense.

[Quite literally the truest statement Sanji's ever uttered]

I mean, my doctor was a reindeer that could talk.

And my captain was a man who was made of rubber.

[fiddlestick]

[ No truer words have ever been spoken yep ]

W-Whoa. That sounds pretty out there....then again we are in a city we have to repaint. And I knew a talking cat in my other life.

[...]

Our lives are weird, aren't they?

[He says, clinging to the back of a man that's flying]

[concasse]

Heh. They're somethin', alright.

[And said flying man gets back to flying after shaking his head, voice tinged with an old fondness.]

But yeah, no weirder than repainting a city because Retrospec cocked it up.

[That's probably not exactly what happened but Sanji is not here to give those guys the benefit of the doubt, either.]

This always used to happen? I've only been in the city three years... been on the app for a couple of months.

[fiddlestick]

I'm not sure. [he gives a shrug]

I've only been in the city since last September. People talk about weird things happening since the start of the app ... but I haven't heard of anything before then.

[concasse]

That right?

[Huh... Sanji doesn't know why, but he assumed Elliot had been here longer.]

Where'd you live before here?

[fiddlestick]

Mmhmm!

I'm from Queens, New York.

[He makes a point to go a bit heavy on his new yorker accent so make it more noticeable]

[concasse]

[Sanji hears it! A little. Honestly to the Frenchman that's just another flavor of American, he is not good at picking up accents--

But in his amusement he copies Elliot, french accent suddenly that more obvious.]

Did I mention where I was from yet?

[fiddlestick]

[he laughs a little, lightening up on the accent again. It's pretty mild most of the time, especially for someone not from the states.]

Hahah, no but...France right?