A test for Anisuki in Avalon - Building A New Start

[anisuki]

Warning for spoilers for His Guardians, and Yu-Gi-Oh

Also warning for stinky icons, as I am still settling on a PB.

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[anisuki]

"But... if we don't know if this place is like your dimension" that was the word he used before world, right? Did they mean the same thing? "or like mine.... shouldn't we wait to get food until we see if it is safe to do it without disturbing the balance you mentioned?"

He didn't pull away, mostly because he was cold. He looked at him, head tilted as another question occurred to him. "Two more words I don't know. Company in that context, and games."

[blue_ice]

"No, but we'll take a look. It won't take long to figure out."

This kid is just full of surprises. Kaiba settles in next to him once more. "Well...I guess in a crisis like that, you wouldn't have time for games. They're small, structured activities that people play for fun. It's like...escapism, a fantasy that plays out around you.

[anisuki]

"We had games, but they weren't things you could sell. Like could I do my lessons faster than the day before and how quick could I clean my room, stuff like that..." So he was still confused. And cold. He dug in his pocket and pulled out some small tools and parts and started tinkering. He knew how to build fans, he could practically build them in his sleep, but fans were for making things colder. How did he make things hotter? Oh! he could start with an engine. Those were easy.

He might have forgotten Kaiba was there as he started building.

[blue_ice]

"...those are more ways that parents trick their kids into doing chores," Kaiba answers, confused. The poor kid had never had a real game. And he didn't have one to show, just a single deck.

But that would have to wait. It seemed the kid had something else to do...where was all this stuff coming from?

"Uh. What are you doing?"

[anisuki]

He didn't seem to hear him, tongue slipping part way out of his mouth as he worked, brows knitting close. But it was only a minute before he reached for a part he didn't have, and his focus broke. He blinked a few times looking around, then saw Kaiba and hunched in on himself. "Di.... Did you ask me something?"

Usually when an adult looked at him like that it meant they asked him something and he didn't notice...

[blue_ice]

"I asked what you were doing. Where you got those parts..."

All he has is a briefcase and duel disk inside, and that's not going to help him much.

[anisuki]

"O...oh. I figured if I built a fan without blades it would make us warm, since if it is this cold with the sun in the sky, it's gotta be deadly at night, right? So we gotta find a way to be warm. But I don't think I have a cam in my pocket..." he mumbled. He shifted a bit, hand hovering over the bulging pocket.