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Mm. Let's go. [Sinclair gets up and follows after once he's sure he still has his things. Don't forget anything...]

[dissimulative]

[ Oria is careful about not leaving things behind and leads Sinclair out of the restaurant once he gets his card back. ]

Wanna take a bus or get in a car? I'm finally allowed to drive now, but my car is back home. I can call someone to pick us up.

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We can take the bus if it's still running.

[ He doesn't mind after all. Public transport is the norm]

[dissimulative]

[ Desperate for that normalcy... ]

Sure!

[ So Oria leads him to a bus stop and there's a bus right there on time. He just scans a card that let's him in. Other than that, coins are also acceptable. ]

[insinning]

[ Normalcy is so important...

But Sinclair has spare cash so he pays for himself and take a seat with Oria. Just waiting for Oria's stop then...]

[dissimulative]

[ They get off at Oria's stop and they walk a little more until reaching the house. Pretty ordinary. The car must be inside the garage. ]

Non-assuming, right?

[ It looks... so normal. ]

[insinning]

...It looks so....normal.

[Especially compared to the mcmansions around. Sinclair glances around, as if that much would tip him off to any oddities that it concealed]

[dissimulative]

[ Perfectly normal environment! No oddities can be sensed even with Sinclair's keen insight and everything. They're pros, after all. Oria laughs and opens the front door. The interior is pretty cozy for a regular 2 bedroom house. It's clean and neat, probably the work of the housekeeper. ]

I thought that having a bigger house all to myself would have felt really unnecessary. I'm just here for schooling, after all.

[insinning]

[Honestly, that's scary. He wonders if Ryoshu would have been able to notice anything. He follows in after Oria, glancing around]

It's nice though.

[Cozy]

[dissimulative]

Yeah. I don't plan on bringing in guests either, unless I have to.

[ ... ]

Except you. You're an exception. The bedrooms are also nice and comfortable if you wanna go check it out.

[ There's a guest room, supposedly for the employee who needs a nap or something. There are long twin beds to accomodste the height, each bunked, so it has the potential to room for 4 people at once. The master bedroom lacks a personal touch. Then again, Oria didn't really decorate his own room much anyway. He has no joy in doing so. ]

[insinning]

[Sinclair grins, taking Oria's hand again as he looks around. The rooms aren't that interesting, but the master bedroom...hm]

You really don't like decorating, huh?

[dissimulative]

It's not my thing.

[ The master bedroom just has an empty shelf standing near the wall, a queen-sized bed, a desk, a desktop computer, chair... the semester hasn't started yet, so there aren't any textbooks in the room at the moment. ]

But it's livable and that's what matters!

[insinning]

[ He looks at the empty shelf and recalls the game consoles that been there in Oria's bedroom once before. But after fragment... he gets it]

Mm. That's true. Everything seems comfortable anyway.

[ But not finding anything distinctly 'Oria' is a bit... maybe they need to go on more dates]

[dissimulative]

[ It might have seemed deep, but Oria just didn't feel like bringing all that with him. The era of PC gaming is here, so he's been working with that quite well. He needs to buy a PC-adapted controller at some point... ]

Yeah? Feel free to sit anywhere you'd like! Oh, but you'd probably have to tell your coworkers that you'll be coming back late, right?

[ With however Sinclair wants "late" to be. ]

[insinning]

[ Oria, please.

(Sinclair can't judge because there's a game he's been waiting for Michel to finish himself)]

Ah, you're right. I probably should say something. [ He checks his phone to find some messages and quickly responds to one of them telling them he'd be back late, without specifying when.

And he'll sit on Oria's bed. Comfy.]

[dissimulative]

Got that covered?

[ Oria jumps on the bed beside Sinclair, making it bounce a little. ]

[insinning]

Mmhm. All done. Gregor knows so it should be fine.

[ maybe he wont get attacked if he walks in late in the night? Morning. The bed bounces and Sinclair jumps a little and leans into Oria]

Hey.

[dissimulative]

Heeeey.

[ Oria laughs a little as he leans into Sinclair too. He definitely has no plans to let Sinclair go out so late at night, so, really, there was only one option from the beginning. ]

Do you want anything? Water, tea, snacks...

[insinning]

Mm...not particularly. Maybe some tea. Later.

[But he also just wants to stubbornly cuddle with Oria so he winds his arms around him to hug. Better]

[dissimulative]

[ Oria smiles as he returns the hug from the side. ]

You're so cute... I really can't believe I get to have you for pretty much an entire day! I feel like I went into withdrawal because I spent soooo many days with you in Fragment.

[insinning]

Aren't you the one who said we had to focus on work because we were playing around for too long?

[Oria, please. But he's happy to snuggle into Oria. He can't believe he got to have the whole day off either without any interruptions...]

[dissimulative]

Well, we did! We did so much work.

[ Hugging like this is uncomfortable, so Oria sits upright and pulls Sinclair over so that he can face him as Sinclair sits on his lap. Hehe. ]

Honestly, one of the good things that my family got out of the incident was looking into the extensive experience of virtual reality and funding someone who can try recreating it for our purposes. We are soooo poaching, but CC Corp is dead now, so who cares, really?

[insinning]

[And here he thought Oria was going to be sick of virtual reality like everyone else. Sinclair gives a tiny squeak of surprise as he's pulled over, but settles himself on Oria's lap, adjusting his arms so they're wrapped around Oria's shoulders]

Ah, so you did make use of all those servers after all.

[dissimulative]

Of course I did! That was the point of me playing the game in the first place! Your company wasn't the only one.

[ Well. The first prioritized reason, at least. The second was just because he wanted to play a cool new game for beta testing. ]

So it worked out for us in the end. The fact that we got to destroy the physical servers was a big plus.

[insinning]

Mm. Hopefully nothing like that happens again. [Two months recovery was hellish enough. His company was working on their own training simulator based off the data recovered, but...ughh]

That was a little fun...