Room 504, Sunday Morning

[intraspective]

Ino was busy.

If you could call having cranked the music up with her door wide open and cross-legged on her bed reading busy.

(Ino was also inconsiderate of her neighbours and their sleeping in habits, yes.)

And reading was busy even if it was simply the same information she was pouring over in an attempt to glean new details from (so far: not working) and giving her something to look at while she struggled to come up with something to say to the e-mail she'd gotten on Tuesday. She needed to answer it, but it made her feel like crying, so she wasn't. Happy thoughts only. At least for the moment.

One thing, she thought with a sigh. All she wanted was one thing that was simple.

... she could go get a hot chocolate. That was about as simple as it got. Hmmm.

[Oooopen door and post.]

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[puppy_fair]

"I don't doubt that you would," Zack insisted, glancing her way and offering her a bit of a smile. "You were awesome with Mr. Chocho that weekend, and you were just a little kid, remember? But there's probably lots to learn, so it would be best to get all that stuff figured out first, right? And you'll have to get seeds for chocobo greens, too, or he'll go hungry fast."

[intraspective]

Ino nibbled on her lower lip and considered that.

"Maybe next time we go, we can look into all of that and see what sort of work it'd take?"

Because she also remembered Reno telling wee her not to feed the thing flowers and that they liked apples.

[puppy_fair]

"Hey, sure! It shouldn't be too hard to get out to the Ranch again. We can hitch a ride out there. There's always some traffic or other headed at least as far as Kalm, and it's about a day to hike from there."

Taking into consideration the fact that the plains were always crawling with monsters, of course.

"Or I could ask Tseng if any of his Turks are headed that way. They have a helicopter, and it wouldn't be too hard to just drop us off!"

[intraspective]

"You think they'd be fine with that?" she asked, a bit dubiously. "It's probably less of an imposition for us to get there another way, right?"

[puppy_fair]

And you'd have to pardon Zack now, Ino, for wearing the wide-eyed, open-faced pout of a guy who couldn't imagine he'd be imposing on the Turks at all if they were already heading that way.

Unless it came down to him pulling on Tseng's ponytail again, which... was totally a possibility, and if that was the case, he'd completely understand if they didn't want him on the flight in the first place.

"Hitchhiking it is!"

Brilliance!

[intraspective]

"It's a good plan," she said agreeably. "And we can decide from there if anything's going to come from it."