[Weird how that works, isn't it? Almost like being direct and talking about your feelings on things can be...a good and healthy thing?? Obviously that's not important or anything to note down, though. No, reflecting on something like that would just be silly...
Not exactly like Jade's being much of a role model example on that front at the moment, is he?]
Indeed. There may be unexpected limitations to consider, too--as well as discretion, to exercise, in order to ensure the captain isn't alerted of what's going on...
[Hm. If the effects of the bottles are indeed genuine, creating matching ones...wouldn't exactly be an issue in itself...
No, the real issue is--something else rather less practical altogether. But Jade does have the capacity for a decent pokerface in these ways, even if the last several weeks haven't been his best showing on that front. Very extenuating circumstances, and all. No, for now...yeah, he's just speaking of behalf of a mystery friend. He might, know a guy, as the saying goes. (Natsuno's never going to let him live this down when the truth finally comes out, no doubt--not that Jade's thinking that'll be happening anytime soon, though...)
Anyway. He's been fiddling with this box plenty long enough by now, all told, and even Jade's starting to notice himself doing it. He leans to set the unwrapped bottles back onto the coffee table, and takes up the last and smallest package of the bunch, content to leave the bottle-creation tangent on that sort of note for now. --Huh, this thing weighs practically nothing at all...can't even really hear anything moving around in it?]
...At any rate. I'll admit I couldn't even guess what might be in this package now. There hasn't exactly been much of a consistent trend here... [Jade starts tugging the wrapping paper off with a wry look Natsuno's way; unlike the bottles, an entirely nondescript cardboard box is revealed beneath, not offering much in the way of hints this time.] A deck brush, travel bottles...well, some form of cleaning supply probably still isn't entirely off the table, is it?
[The worst-case scenario's surely that it'd be something about as ridiculous as the deck brush, after all. No, probably nothing of too much consequence in here...]
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Not exactly like Jade's being much of a role model example on that front at the moment, is he?]
Indeed. There may be unexpected limitations to consider, too--as well as discretion, to exercise, in order to ensure the captain isn't alerted of what's going on...
[Hm. If the effects of the bottles are indeed genuine, creating matching ones...wouldn't exactly be an issue in itself...
No, the real issue is--something else rather less practical altogether. But Jade does have the capacity for a decent pokerface in these ways, even if the last several weeks haven't been his best showing on that front. Very extenuating circumstances, and all. No, for now...yeah, he's just speaking of behalf of a mystery friend. He might, know a guy, as the saying goes. (Natsuno's never going to let him live this down when the truth finally comes out, no doubt--not that Jade's thinking that'll be happening anytime soon, though...)
Anyway. He's been fiddling with this box plenty long enough by now, all told, and even Jade's starting to notice himself doing it. He leans to set the unwrapped bottles back onto the coffee table, and takes up the last and smallest package of the bunch, content to leave the bottle-creation tangent on that sort of note for now. --Huh, this thing weighs practically nothing at all...can't even really hear anything moving around in it?]
...At any rate. I'll admit I couldn't even guess what might be in this package now. There hasn't exactly been much of a consistent trend here... [Jade starts tugging the wrapping paper off with a wry look Natsuno's way; unlike the bottles, an entirely nondescript cardboard box is revealed beneath, not offering much in the way of hints this time.] A deck brush, travel bottles...well, some form of cleaning supply probably still isn't entirely off the table, is it?
[The worst-case scenario's surely that it'd be something about as ridiculous as the deck brush, after all. No, probably nothing of too much consequence in here...]