That Space Spa That Summer Never Shuts Up About; Dimension FH-001, Sunday [06/05].

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Rest and relaxation, pampering and a potential new hair cut had all been on the agenda for the day, and all of that (and more!) was right at Summer's finger tips at one of her favorite places in the entire multiverse: that goddamn space spa she never shut up about. And she was welcoming a new person into that elaborate space spa experience by dragging Liz along with her to hopefully start nudging her out of the particularly bad funk the current chocobro circumstances had put her into.

Like, seriously, with all the things this place had to offer? If that didn't start making Liz feel better, then Summer might be convinced that nothing would.

Well, you know, save for getting Prompto back, obviously. They were working on it! And she did have news.

She was just saving it for the right time, and the right time was definitely feeling like it could be just soaking in that strawberry-scented mineral bath with a space drink in hand, because it was definitely her favorite part of her favorite place.

"Ohmygoooooooooooood," she groaned happily into a sigh as she closed her eyes and breathed in the relaxing vapors and let the warm water surround her well-massaged muscles, "I seriously want this stuff just pumped into my own bathtub some day, I swear."


[[ for liz! Or, honestly, anyone else who wants in on a sudden spa date, you know Summer would not say no, and NFB for distance, natch ]]

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[somethingwithturquoise]

Summer cracked open one of her eyes; it matched the quirk of her eyebrow.

God, she was almost starting to sound like Stark there.

"You're fine," she assured her, with a little bit of insistence to the drawl. "No one's expecting you to be the life of the party or anything. Besides, that's my job. You're going through a whole ordeal right now, and you don't owe anyone anything, least of all being good company.

"That's not even true, anyway," she added, shifting a little and sinking a little lower into the water with a happy sigh. "This has been great, Liz."

[flamesburned]

Liz relaxed a bit more, trying to let the warmth massage her muscles, which had been feeling rather tender lately but she imagined it was just from all the crying she had been doing and how tense she'd been, "it's ... it just felt like I wasn't going to stop crying there for a while," she said, "I started crying talking to Dr. Lecter at the picnic yesterday," she admitted.

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"I meaaaaan," said Summer, "if you're going to start crying to someone, he's a pretty good one to do it to, and, at the picnic, at least you don't have to then pay for the privilege."

Her head tilted, though, as she looked over at Liz.

"Did he have anything useful to say?"

[flamesburned]

“Just that what I was feeling was normal and crying wasn’t a step backwards that it could also be a good thing,” Liz said softly, staring down at the water for a moment as she processed what he said to her, before she looked back at Summer, “he also pointed out I hadn’t lost control and I’d been keeping busy with classes and training and that the fact I’d even gone to the picnic was a big step,”she said.

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"Hmmm," Summer gave a thoughtful hum of a laugh as she grinned over at Liz a little, "sounds a little familiar..."

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At that Liz did manage to laugh as she realised, “I guess I need to be told things a few times before it sinks in, huh?” she said.

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"Or at least by a learned professional, apparently," Summer noted wryly, but the smile on her face remained, so she didn't seem too bothered. It was kind of hard to be bothered by anything in a space spa, really, and she gave yet another happy sigh. "I swear, I missed yet another great calling. With how many people come to me for advice and then promptly ignore it until someone else with a degree tells them pretty much the same thing...

"And speaking of promptly..."

A+, Top Notch, perfect segue right there, Summer, good job.

She looked almost archly back at Liz now, chin lifted almost triumphantly, "I may have news."

[flamesburned]

“I will try and remember your advice first before I start crying in front of my psychiatrist in future,” Liz promised.

At the mention of news and that little segue, Liz froze at that revelation and then a few moments later remembered that breathing was a thing, “Oh?” she asked, “um what kind of news?”

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"Well," stated Summer, sinking down a little more comfortably and letting the soak sort of wash over her as she talked, "Goose has been getting these, like, little blips from that communicator of his. Like it just picks up these little snippets of conversation on occasion. We're not sure why, and we can't seem to communicate back, and they're apparently really brief, barely even a minute, but it definitely tells us that they're probably safe and we're not completely blocked off from them right now. There's still some tiiiiiny little trace of connection. So we're going to try and see if we can figure out how to widen that gap, you know?

"Also," she added, "I talked to Miguel at the picnic, and apparently, he's got this whole portal hub structure thing in his universe, too, so he's going to take me and see if we don't have better luck there than we've been having with portalocity and my gun."

[flamesburned]

Liz closed her eyes at that, letting the news that they were alright sink in first before she opened then up, “they’re okay?” she hardly dared to believe it, “there’s a chance we can communicate with them again?”

She sank down into the water, almost feeling completely relaxed for the first time in days.

“Um…actually I’ve been talking to Steven and he said if there was a way we knew any of the names of the Eos Gods that he could ask Konshu if he knew them and see if he could put in a word to them and get a report on how they were doing,”

She knew it was a very slim chance since Konshu was an Egyptian God but it was worth a shot.

“I don’t suppose you happen to know any of their names do you?”

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"As of the last blip," Summer said, nodding, and making sure to give herself some room for error, though, because, honestly, the blips didn't prove anything, but pointing that out didn't seem helpful. She still didn't feel comfortable being conclusive about anything, "they're okay. And there's definitely a chance we can communicate with them again."

But she shook her head slightly over the rest of it. "I don't," she admitted. "Goose and I were talking about that yesterday, too, like...how none of them really seemed particularly devout, you know? But I also talked to Tisarwat, and she's going to let me poke around her and Lucille's apartment to see if Ignis or Gladio left anything there that might be helpful. Especially since, in the most recent blip, Goose said he overheard Ignis talking about a god. So it definitely seems there's going to be a solid through-line there."

[flamesburned]

“At least that’s something,” Liz sighed, closing her eyes again and letting the relief wash over her, “even if I can’t talk to Prompto I know he’s at least alive, I think not knowing anything was the worst of this and if he’s okay …at that there’s some kind of word from them ,”

She paused. “I was going to ask Sidon if he knew anything since he’s Prompto’s best friend,” Liz said, “maybe he knows something about the Eos Gods in general?” she considered.

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"Definitely wouldn't hurt," Summer said, sinking down just that little bit more so her shoulders were completely submerged. "Those two used to hang out all the time back when they were students, so I wouldn't be surprised if he picked up something here or there. But if it's Sidon, be ready to probably have your ear talked off..."

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Liz smiled at that, as she also lowered herself further in the water, feeling almost completely relaxed, “I’m in his class this semester so I’ve had some experience with that but even if he talks for hours, hopefully he’ll have something that might help us figure out a connection and why we can only hear blood of conversation on their end,”

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"Speaking of that," Summer grinned a little, "Goose is going to see if he can get me a butt-ton of those communicator things. I have a plan. It probably won't work, like, at all, but in the off chance it does, I plan on spamming the shit out of them until something gets through. So if you want to contribute something to the messages I'll be sending out, please do."

[flamesburned]

Liz brightened considerably at that, “okay I’ll definitely do that, I now have to figure out what I’m going to say to him,” she paused, “how many messages are you going to send?” because she would most likely need to send quite a few.

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One of Summer's shoulders lifted out of the water in a shrug.

"Just the one, really," she said. "My plan is just to play it on an endless loop for all the communicators tuned into Ignis' frequency. That way, hopefully, whenever whatever it is that's causing them to come through happens, we come through, too. And we'll have it all monitored and maybe figure out the deets after the fact."

[flamesburned]

“Th… that’s better than having no way of getting through to them right?” Liz was feeling more hopeful than she had been these last few days, “I mean even if there’s only a slim chance …they’ll hear…” her voice trailed off uncertainly.

[somethingwithturquoise]

Summer was honestly expecting a lot more of a oh, wow, that's brilliant, Summer, you're so smart and awesome! And also, your skin looks amazing right now! kind of a response to that reveal, but this was okay. It was fine. She was used to her brilliance going so tragically unappreciated.

"It's a very slim chance," she admitted. "But it may be the only chance we've got."

[flamesburned]

Sorry Summer Liz was a bit distracted by the idea that she could actually send a message to Prompto and that he'd maybe hear it that she forgot about actual compliments but she'd get round to it eventually.

Liz took that in, staring down at the water as she she focused on the warmth soaking in to her, "I think it's one of the best pieces of news I've had though," Liz smiled at her and she did feel a lot more optimistic and hopeful than she had been these last few days, "I mean, I ...thank you for telling me though, I think I thought everything was hopeless but I guess there are still chances out there right? Even if they're slim ones,"

It was going to be a very harsh reminder why they were called slim chances.

[somethingwithturquoise]

"I've definitely managed to pull off way more with a whole lot less," Summer assured Liz with a confident bob of her head. "Plus, you know, we're dealing with Fandom shit. Literally anything is possible."

[flamesburned]

Liz nodded, trying to keep her focus on how positive this was, "well hopefully between this and maybe working on the Gods connection, we can find something that will let us talk to them again? Even just to be able to hear Prompto's voice again ... I, I would like that, even if I still have to wait a bit to see him again,"

[somethingwithturquoise]

Summer gave Liz a briefly speculative look, but ultimately decided that, yeah, no, pulling out a Prompto impression right now was probably not going to go over nearly as well as the Ignis impression had gone over with Goose. Prompto was a little bit more difficult to pull off, anyway, it would have pretty much been all whoa, bruh! Dude! Video games! Chocobos! Taking pictures! Pew pew!

So she just gave Liz a small, reassuring smile instead.

"We'll get there," she promised. "Even if we have to try every damn thing in the book to do it."