find gainful employment

[mrmage]

The following day, Sadde goes to town at a reasonable time to buy a tiny cactus with some of the proceeds from his terribly tedious job, and sneaks it into the bag with his clothing he brings to Isabella's room. It is inside a cute little box, which he offers Isabella the following morning when she wakes up, saying, "Happy three-month anniversary!"

Comments

[msmage]

"You said that already. Do you mean to say you don't want me to? You can say that instead, and I won't."

[alicornucopia]

"I dunno."

[msmage]

"It's the kind of thing friends do," she shrugs.

[alicornucopia]

"Okay."

[msmage]

"Okay! Alright, I'm gonna go grab some food, then."

[alicornucopia]

Nod.

[msmage]

She goes and grabs food and returns, humming happily under her breath.

[alicornucopia]

Jackson appears to have maybe consumed one entire forkful of mashed potatoes in the entire time it took her to do that.

[msmage]

"...not hungry?" she wonders.

[alicornucopia]

"Not really."

[msmage]

"Uh, have you been eating right, lately?"

[alicornucopia]

"I never eat, like, a lot of salads or anything..."

[msmage]

"By 'right' I meant 'enough.'"

[alicornucopia]

"I'm not hungry, I don't think you're supposed to eat when you're not hungry."

[msmage]

"Well, you're supposed to eat, like, two thousand calories per day. Also I think eclipsed need more than that to fuel the magic?"

[alicornucopia]

"I don't do magic very much."

[msmage]

"There's still the regular human's two thousand calories."

[alicornucopia]

"I don't count calories, I don't know how much that is."

[msmage]

"Yeah, me neither," she sighs.

[alicornucopia]

Shrug.

[msmage]

"'S long as you're not feeling bad," she says, and gets to eating her own food.

[alicornucopia]

"Enh."

Forkful of mashed potatoes, looked at dubiously, eaten.

[msmage]

"Enh?"

[alicornucopia]

"I don't feel hungry," he says. "Which is probably what you meant."

[msmage]

"No, not exactly. You can not feel hungry but feel weak from lack of food because bodies aren't built well enough to prevent this kind of inconsistency."