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[infomodder]

"Gone fishing."

[ so don't leave messages to ruin the after fishing glow !!!

your one stop shop for not leaving him alone ]

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[lyingheart]

Any sort of equivalent give and take. More... being able to give back something in return that's useful. Where it feels earned.

[ Earned might be the important part. People may give freely elsewhere, but that's never been the case for her; the "charity" of the king to the refugees being the exception.

Charity necessary for survival. Annie will take what she needs. What she doesn't need, what's extra, needs some merit behind it. ]

[infomodder]

[Well now, that's not a difficult one to handle at all.]

You know how to run a cash register? You ever feel like you gotta earn something, you can work a few hours at the shop. I'd be fine with that.

[The good old-fashioned way, like he said earlier.

With free bubbly waters and Gunther hanging out, of course.]

[lyingheart]

I can learn. For something like that, I should be able to, if I've learned how to operate things like laptops and hovercycles.

[ #modern technologies

This is easy to accept, too; direct labor exchange. Learn one more skill to handle taking the bait. Or something like that, anyway. ]

[infomodder]

Works for me. Just give me a head's up of when you're free and want to, and we can go from there.

[When she's free. When she wants to.

Will doesn't need to be repaid, but if this makes her feel better, he's fine with it. More than fine. Maybe he'll even leave her alone, if she feels comfortable enough. Leave her alone and come back with something to eat, maybe. Something he paid for. Something he doesn't even think about until he sets it down in front of her and realizes.

Welp.]

[lyingheart]

[ It'll be a balancing act to get to that point of 'free' next to "willing." Want has both very little and very much to do with it. Wanting to give back because accepting without earning isn't how she works. It's why she avoids the "gifts" given to imPorts, why she turns them down or downplays involvement, simply to not have more to hold herself accountable to in the end.

Why what she does make hers matters, and why she's willing to let it go, too; Minako's theft is more troubling for what it says than for the loss of clothing. Annie doesn't care about clothing in the end. It's the message... that's the insult.

And Annie is able to be insulted, unfortunately. ]

I will.

[infomodder]

[He gets the insult behind the theft, more than leaves him comfortable, and doesn't want to end up in those same waters. Granted, nothing he's done that could be taken as insulting was done on purpose, not like that. Bubbly waters, shirts, providing her a place or two to stop by if she ever felt like it, those were purposeful, but not with the purpose to change her. Not a demand, an invitation.

Just like how he'd reel in a fish.

There is a joke he's holding back on. You will? No, I'm Will. Maybe another day.]

I'll look forward to it.

[Free child slave labor? Not that. Not that at all.]