[After so long being jerked around on the Foundation's dime (penny? honestly the idea of the Foundation bothering to spend all that much on its agents is just both a literally and metaphorically foreign concept and also just seems like a waste of money and this is coming from the guy who just chartered a flight with a private cabin across the Pacific), Subete is really stretching his legs even in the necessarily cramped quarters of air travel; there's no reason flitting between Japan and the States has to be a chore when it will likely be on their regular travel itinerary for a while to come.
(He has plans for the future there too, if there's one thing he's good at overdoing it's plots and plans and surrounding himself in the creature comforts of life; growing up in modern capitalism and/or having money thrown at you instead of normal people relationships will do that to a guy.)
Speaking of planning and plotting, the Hotel Ivy is a good bit of insurance considering who they're visiting and where (in the plural); Saphir and Marona might not be closely associated with the Foundation anymore, and there might be twenty years and too much miasma in between everyone and the last time they all really bothered dealing with each other for an extended period in the same house, but sometimes it really pays to think things through. That's what he's here for, too.
(Where is the money for all their shenanigans coming from? Let's not ask unnecessary questions right off.)
Speaking of expensive shenanigans, in addition to his own somewhat less seasonal outfit (pants in olive, sunglasses just as douchey though), Subete is cradling a sleek bottle of sake fresh from the fridge and he's handed Hikage the other part of their traveling trophies: there may or may not be a considerable-sized giftbox all merrily wrapped up in red, but that's neither here nor there, because manners happen to the worst of us but doors have to happen first.]
Dare I ask what you were expecting? [there's a wry note to it mirrored in the amused curve of his mouth as he takes the place in; it's not like he was blind to the fact that Saphir tended to be blindingly extra in many respects and had only increased exponentially in that field in the years they'd been away, but still] But it certainly is much more surburban than I would have pictured. Maybe Marona talked some sense into him?
Introductions more like Home Invasion 2/2
(He has plans for the future there too, if there's one thing he's good at overdoing it's plots and plans and surrounding himself in the creature comforts of life; growing up in modern capitalism and/or having money thrown at you instead of normal people relationships will do that to a guy.)
Speaking of planning and plotting, the Hotel Ivy is a good bit of insurance considering who they're visiting and where (in the plural); Saphir and Marona might not be closely associated with the Foundation anymore, and there might be twenty years and too much miasma in between everyone and the last time they all really bothered dealing with each other for an extended period in the same house, but sometimes it really pays to think things through. That's what he's here for, too.
(Where is the money for all their shenanigans coming from? Let's not ask unnecessary questions right off.)
Speaking of expensive shenanigans, in addition to his own somewhat less seasonal outfit (pants in olive, sunglasses just as douchey though), Subete is cradling a sleek bottle of sake fresh from the fridge and he's handed Hikage the other part of their traveling trophies: there may or may not be a considerable-sized giftbox all merrily wrapped up in red, but that's neither here nor there, because manners happen to the worst of us but doors have to happen first.]
Dare I ask what you were expecting? [there's a wry note to it mirrored in the amused curve of his mouth as he takes the place in; it's not like he was blind to the fact that Saphir tended to be blindingly extra in many respects and had only increased exponentially in that field in the years they'd been away, but still] But it certainly is much more surburban than I would have pictured. Maybe Marona talked some sense into him?
[#helping or #justrhetoricalthings]