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[snackrat]

[AUs are hard and prompts are hard but like, wanna summon a demon? get stuck on a deserted island together? some shit idk]

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[ferrumcorde]

Hm. Well I would like to be on good terms eventually, if we're going to work together for a long time. There's no reason to keep my goals from you, and If you feel like it, I'm certainly interested in you.

[snackrat]

I'm not against it. I don't think we're on bad terms now? Our working relationship can be functional without bringing other stuff into it, but we also can. I just don't think my farming hobby is all that interesting.

[ferrumcorde]

...Farming?

[He's so genuinely surprised. A demon that likes farming?]

[snackrat]

Yeah. I like growing things. It's satisfying.

[ferrumcorde]

I confess I've never tried. We have a garden, if you wish to utilize it.

[snackrat]

Mm. I'll check it out. [cookie]

[ferrumcorde]

May I ask you something?

[snackrat]

Doesn't guarantee you an answer, but I won't stop you.

[ferrumcorde]

Is there anything you cherish? Or desire?

[Because it might be easier to understand Mika is he understood those things.]

[snackrat]

What kind of question is that? Everyone wants something.

[ferrumcorde]

That's what I believe. But you seem rather uninterested in what would normally entice someone.

[snackrat]

That's because they do nothing for me. Power and status are too complicated, so I can't use them to get what I want.

[ferrumcorde]

[What on earth can be gained without power and status??? aside from like, gardening.]

....What is it you want?

[snackrat]

To find where I belong. [simply]

[ferrumcorde]

Where you belong? [This is a totally weird and foreign concept to this guy apparently, he's just staring in confusion.]

[snackrat]

Where I can stop. Is it that weird?

[ferrumcorde]

Stop...?

[He leans forward, genuinely interested, and also openly confused.]

I can't say if it's weird or not. It's not something I've heard before.

[snackrat]

I got the idea last time I was summoned. I thought it was something a human would understand.

[ferrumcorde]

Is it...

Tell me more, about the last time you were summoned?

[snackrat]

I was summoned by the leader of a band of mercenaries, last time. He wasn't the leader then, he was just a kid, but we contracted for a long time for a human. [three hundred years is a long time, okay. plenty of time for non-gjallarhorn illegal summonings. and this maybe explains his clothes.]

[ferrumcorde]

And he convinced you to want a place to belong.

[In context it makes a bit more sense, but it also sounds a bit tragic. Well, the world is full of tragedy, that's nothing surprising.]

[snackrat]

We were finding it for him and his. It made sense.

[ferrumcorde]

A place to belong.... Did you ever find it together? [He's guessing not, since it's still a desire.]

[snackrat]

I think he found it. He wouldn't have stopped, just because of what happened to me. He knew I wouldn't let him stop.

[ferrumcorde]

Were you that set on the goal?

[What a strange thought. But maybe it's not that removed from McGillis' own intentions, if it's stripped to the bare bones. His are just...Less pure, he supposes. Quite a bit more calculated than an orphan's wish most likely.]