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[aeturnus]

so hey i'm Asking For A Friend ;) but how many other immortals are here in the quarantine? any?

also! important question!! what did everyone get told when they got here? what questions did you ask? i wanna know what we're working with! Let's Work Together!

p.s., if you want to answer the first question without a name there are burner phones available at [ small list of locations ] to make unattached accounts. i'm just looking for at least numbers! names would be radical too of course!

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what a lovely forgotten word I just noticed in my last tag, whoops

[aeturnus]

Guess it is. Chose it myself and everything.

[ So no, he's not that Cain if Christian even knows the reference. Still, probably something kinda messed up about the guy who would choose to go by that for however long he has. Then again, who's not messed up these days? Secrets are the new black. ]

Since that was the offer that lured me out in the first place, why not. Let's get a drink.

lol me all the time

[buildingcastles]

I like it.

[ He's not unfamiliar with choosing names. Spirits get all sorts of titles from humans because they don't have names. "The Wailing Child" or "Black Shuck" or "The Red Stone Horse" were names to spirits, and it isn't so much of a step for him to believe a human might take a new name. The psychics sometimes had titles. Why not? The real question he has about that is left unvoiced. ]

Okay, Cain, let's get a drink. I hear they have good cakes too.

[aeturnus]

[ Well, the question most people ask is tied into his real identity... or what he considers to be a defining trait of it as far as the population is concerned. Not really a thing to bring up in delicate conversation unless he's ready to not care about the person at all.

At that, Cain grins. ] Haven't had a good cake in a while. Sweetening the pot hoping for a better tale?

[buildingcastles]

I thought I was being friendly. That's what people do, right?

[ He really wants to ask if there's an Abel, but that's a little too personal if he's honest with himself. It's instinct to ask and Christian's curiosity generally ends up with other people hurt, so he holds back for the moment. He invited Cain out for a nice conversation, not to dig into his personal life. ]

And who doesn't like a good cake?

[aeturnus]

Offer to buy them sweets? Sure.

[ Cain isn't above agreeing in order to get cakes. Not at all. Questions like those would get answered, if not in their entirety, but Cain knows he's probably more candid about his life than anyone would reasonably expect — there aren't so many things he'd hold onto for just himself when the people around him won't last all that long and the knowledge is lost again anyway. ]

Uh... people who are allergic, and I think that's about it. You got a favorite kind?

[buildingcastles]

Well, everyone eats. It's an easy way to relate?

[ Christian realizes how awkward he sounds, giving Cain an embarrassed smile and ducking his head with a shrug. When you deal with demons most of the time and hear all about how they are going to eat you, it becomes routine to assume people think about food first. But humans are demons. ]

Chocolate. I guess it's simple, but I like a good chocolate cake. They're also easy to find, so that's an advantage. Do you like chocolate? You know, in case I need to bribe you.

[aeturnus]

Yeah, you're not wrong there. And if conversation goes sideways, you can just focus on the food.

[ Cain rolls with it. It's far from the worst encounter he's had with the socially-awkward. This one even seems aware of it! ]

Mint chocolate, maybe. Ooh, and red velvet. Love that one. [ He grins. ] Regular chocolate's good, too.