gurl can i get yo digits

[ino]

[ino's pretty much just making her way out of the clinic and heading down the stairs to leave the castle. oh! but she'll stop to pop into the kitchen for a small snack before she heads back into town. an apple, maybe? or hmm, maybe a pear ... she'll just be pondering the many choices this basket of fruit has to offer]

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[gottaknockhard]

I usually can't afford to be.

[Because saying how cheap you are is a great way to make an impression!]

[ino]

[LMFAO. she just thinks it's funny]

Why's that?

[gottaknockhard]

[He shrugs, maybe even slightly embarrassed.]

Never had a lot of money. You'd be surprised what you can survive on.

[ino]

[she glances at him ...]

What do you do for a job, anyways? [she is kind of realizing she basically knows nothing about him, other than ... he gets himself hurt a lot like an idiot :'D]

[gottaknockhard]

I used to be a bounty hunter. [PROFESSIONAL BUM...]

[ino]

Oh! I guess that's kind of like my job, then. [LMAO jsdfksd the difference is, she .. actually makes money ... HAHAHHAHA]

[gottaknockhard]

Is that what ninjas do?

[See him remembering? He should get bonus points for this.]

[ino]

We take on missions for pay, yeah. [and he does! in fact, she'll tease him a little about it] I'm surprised you remembered.

[gottaknockhard]

[He just takes it as her warming up to him.]

I remember more than I wanted to while I was in the clinic. But it wasn't all bad. [Subtle compliment, so sneaky.] What kind of missions?

[ino]

[well, she IS a sucker for flattery, so ... good play, spike!]

Whatever we're needed for. Lower ranks usually have to do more like chores ... pulling weeds and cleaning and stuff. Once you're a higher rank like me, it's more like ... infiltration, gathering information, bodyguarding ... that kind of thing.

[gottaknockhard]

[He knew it was something about her...]

Sounds like fun.

[ino]

It can be. Or it can be horribly boring. [a little laugh] But we get paid pretty well, so.

[gottaknockhard]

Not really like bounty hunting then.

[ino]

[amused] No? Aren't the rewards pretty high for the dangerous people?

[gottaknockhard]

Yeah. But the expenses you rack up to catch them tend to knock down the profit. [Property damage, medical expenses... usual stuff.] And half the time there will be some loophole that gets them out of paying the reward.

[ino]

A loophole! How can they do that?

[gottaknockhard]

[Right? Spike's dead back home, but he can still hold his resentment about it. Bounty hunters got a bad rap.]

They can pretty much get away with whatever they want. It wasn't the most honest system.

[ino]

That's stupid. If you did the work then you should be compensated.

[gottaknockhard]

You'd think so. [Then there were all the times they accidentally killed the bounty heads before turning them in... that's usually where they get you.]

We got by anyway.

[ino]

Well, that's good, at least ... [LMAO. SPIKE.]

By now I'd probably be able to provide for myself totally at home, but before I got here, I was still living with my dad. So I guess I was lucky, there.

[gottaknockhard]

[Jailbait alert... think fast, Spike-o.]

Your dad, huh?

[ino]

Yeah. [lucky for you, spike, she hates it when people think she's younger than she actually is, so she'll clarify] I was sixteen when I got here, but I'm twenty-one now. But since I've been here the whole time, I've never gotten to take the test to get promoted or anything ... [sigh :(]

[gottaknockhard]

[Mentally relaxing! Twenty-one is much less creepy on his part. (Not that he's even considering this a date or anything, but he can't help the feeling...)

Resume walking at normal pace.]

You miss that kind of work?

[ino]

[LOL, SPIKE. yes, it's always good to know the girl you're batting your eyes at is legal.]

... Sometimes. Things were a lot simpler when that was all I had to worry about. [she'll be pushing open the front door, now ...] What about you, do you miss bounty hunting?

[gottaknockhard]

[Darn, she got to the door before he could hold it open. Next time he'll need to be quicker on his feet.]

Maybe some parts of it.