[Video | Locked to various people / Action for Lea]

[mercury_gaze]

[Each message is separate, but each one the same.  The locks are to:
Jadewing
Thundercracker
Jetstorm
Drift
Gunmax]

[Have a little girl face, guys.]

Hey, ah...can I meet with you?

[Action for Lea]

Lea?  [She peeks around the corner into his room.]

Comments

[the_other_green_seeker]

I think I know where that is. I'll be there shortly. Though unless there's a Cybertronian-scaled entrance, you may have to come out to me.

[Jadewing knows where the arboretum is, but has never had reason to try and go inside.]

[mercury_gaze]

You should be able to fit. Dirge can fit in here, and he’s really big.

[Jen, you probably shouldn’t be letting people know you’ve been meeting with Dirge, Lea might see this. In any case, he’ll fit, it was designed by a Cybertronian after all.]

[the_other_green_seeker]

[Pauses in heading out to fly there to stare at the screen for a second.]

You've been meeting with Dirge? [pause] He hasn't tried to eat you, has he?

[Legit question because... Dirge.]

1/2

[mercury_gaze]

[Oops.] Ah..........Yes.

2/2

[mercury_gaze]

He won’t eat me. I’m “too valuable to eat.” [Tone and expression a mix of resignation, amusement, and like she’s repeating something she’s heard him say.]

He does talk about wanting to keep me in a jar, though. [rolling her eyes here.]

Re: 2/2

[the_other_green_seeker]

[Jadewing facepalms and sighs, grumbling something about 'glitchy winglets' before continuing on his way out.]

Hope he at least remembers to put airholes in it if he ever does. Our you both might be in for an unpleasant surprise.

[He doesn't think Dirge'll actually do it, but can't put it entirely past him either.]

[mercury_gaze]

He won't do that, he doesn't want me mad at him.

[Because he doesn't want to make her cry.]

[the_other_green_seeker]

[OK that gets a snicker out of him as he takes off, heading for the arboretum .]

Heh... OK, I'd pay to see that discussion. Dirge being intimidated by an organic youngling.

[mercury_gaze]

[She laughs. She’d not say he was intimidated, so much as didn’t want her hurt, so her logic won over his desire to “keep” her.] I’ll ask Woo to show you next time. [Maybe.]

[When he gets there she’s perched up in a tree.]

[the_other_green_seeker]

[That still sort of counts so Jadewing is still amused.

Once he arrives, he glances around for a few moments before spotting here. Huh... that's convenient; means he doesn't have to crouch down so far to talk to her.]

Well, here I am. What was it you wanted?

[mercury_gaze]

[She beams at him.] It’s in the box under the tree. I hope you like it.

[Sure enough, great big box under the tree.]

[the_other_green_seeker]

[Big for Jendayi, not so much for a Cybertronian, though. Jadewing quirks an optic ridge before picking up the box. He opens it carefully, just in case the contents are fragile... or in case this is some kind of trick and it's rigged to exploded with streamers or a paint bomb or something. He doubts Jendayi capable of anything truly sinister, but a practical joke? That's a different story.]

[mercury_gaze]

[It’s about palm sized for him. When he opens it he’ll find a bracelet. His is a bit different from others she’s made in that she’s worked in three stones. One in each of the main colors of him and his two wingmates. She’s watching him, trying to see what he thinks of it. She hopes he likes it, you know how hard it is to make a bracelet big enough for a giant robot?]

[the_other_green_seeker]

[Probably pretty difficult, yes.

Regardless of difficulty, though, Jadewing just seems... more confused and anything else as he removes the bracelet from the box and examines it. He recognizes his wingmates' colors, recalling Jendayi asking about them before.

He doesn't seem to dislike it, at least. Still, he's not used to getting gifts. Or... of really owning anything the doesn't have some practical purpose. And it shows.]

What's this for...?

[mercury_gaze]

It’s a bracelet. It goes on your wrist. Like this.

[She offers up her own wrist, a bracelet around it, as an example.]

I made it in your wingmate’s colors, as a memento to them.

[the_other_green_seeker]

They're not dead. [At least he hopes not.] Though they probably think I am.

[Jadewing looks thoughtful for a a moment as he examines the bracelet. Gifts, in his experience, rarely came without strings attached.]

Why make something like this for me? You don't even know me that well.