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fire_of_the_heart

The dungeon felt a little off, even from the beginning. A little... a little fuzzy around the edges, like the spaces where they weren't looking were rearranging themselves just a bit. It was one of those dungeons that rearranged itself at semi-regular intervals, but it still made sense, physically. All of the pieces were being rearranged, but they were still the same.

Until they weren't.

It was right as they were closing in on the core. Another dungeon had sprung up, and this A-rank dungeon had been predictable enough that they decided to let Yun Minseo depart early to prep for looking at that one. It's not clear if it was feeling threatened by the pair of super powerful combat espers closing in on its core, or if it was waiting for the much less obviously threatening sensor to leave, but, well. That was when it went from 'tricky and annoying but doable' to. Whatever the fuck this is.

Walls of iron turn to sludge around them. The ground shifts from stone to mud to something else, something stickier, at their feet, and then drips down the ceiling to attempt to cover them in some sort of horrible tar as their comms suddenly die. A swarm of something with the wings of birds and the heads of dogs and the claws of some kind of velociraptor comes barreling out of the sludge, a great tidal wave of teeth and claws and malice. The sludge around them writhes and turns to something like snakes, each one's body as sharp as knives, twitching and stretching in unexpected directions.

That is not to say that Tae-gun and Hye-jin take this lying down and go, "Oh well, the dungeon isn't what we expected. Time to give up and go home." Obviously, they're not doing that. Tae-gun can keep them above and protected from whatever fresh new bullshit this fucking - sludge dungeon - throws at them, and whatever the fuck this stuff is made of, Hye-jin can actually just melt it away with a truly astonishing amount of fire. They can still win this, still find and destroy the core.

It just means that - well. Here they are. It's started.

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neither_rest_nor_peace

—that got really specific really fast, get a grip, Lee Tae-gun.

fire_of_the_heart

They had about as much of a quickie as time could allow, but, uh, yeah, poor Tae-gun usually needs longer sessions before he is fully calmed down. But they're really starting to push it, and he absolutely would not want to be late regardless, so...

"Sorry," she apologizes, and then she does the exact trick Woo-young did, and dumps a glass of water on him. He's not in clothes yet, it's fine.

neither_rest_nor_peace

Why do people keep doing this to him!!!!!!

neither_rest_nor_peace

Argh now he needs to dry off in addition to putting clothes on. And water or no he still has a boner and that cage would be a great idea except he'd need to get soft and he's really not sure at all he could do that in the time they have before they should get going.

Sigh.

fire_of_the_heart

They keep doing it because it works!!!! He is actually broken out of his smut spiral!!! If you want them to do other things then those other things need to work!!!!!

Also, who does he take her for, she's obviously going to help him dry off. Extra quickly, actually, she's a fire esper. His hair is getting magically blow dried.

neither_rest_nor_peace

"Should you actually be getting more backlash like this?" he grumbles.

fire_of_the_heart

"Oh, like you're one to talk," she snorts. "You use your ice for carrying stuff all the time, but I'm suddenly bad at backlash budgeting when we're actually on a timetable?"

She raises her eyebrows, then hands him his shirt.

neither_rest_nor_peace

"Because we're actually on a timetable," he argues, accepting his shirt and pulling it on with a petulant pout.

fire_of_the_heart

"Ahuh. Turnabout's fair play, and my backlash means I just get a bit chilly. A little to help get you presentable is completely reasonable, you're just cranky about it."

neither_rest_nor_peace

Pout.

And clothes on, he guesses.

fire_of_the_heart

Yep. Clothes on for them both.

Also: pouting is better than out of his mind horny, so she considers this a success.

They should, by her calculation and with the help of teleportation, arrive early.

neither_rest_nor_peace

Indeed! Though it's Woo-young who's teleporting them out of his personal stash since this isn't an official Quasar thing.

Today Tae-gun is dressing up again because he's anxious and he wants to leave a good impression. Does this even matter when he's meeting people who have seen him naked squirming and begging? Probably not! But it lets him direct his nervous energy somewhere for a bit.

"Ready?" he asks Hye-jin but of course he's really asking himself.

fire_of_the_heart

Hye-jin is also dressed up! It might actually matter for her, since nobody she's meeting today has seen her in any kind of compromising position that wasn't internationally televised.

"Ready."

neither_rest_nor_peace

He texts Woo-young and then they disappear.

Hwi-min's is a low-key but reasonably upscale traditional Korean restaurant; as such, they're reasonably used to high-profile customers. That said, arriving by literal teleportation still draws its fair share of surprise and stares from employees and passersby alike—and then outright gaping by some of the people who notice these are Lee Tae-gun and Kim Hye-jin.

"Good evening, Lee Tae-gun-nim, Kim Hye-jin-nim," says the maître d'. "You have a reservation for a party of six, yes? You're the first two to arrive. If you'll follow my colleague?" they ask, gesturing inside at said colleague.

fire_of_the_heart

"Good evening," she responds with a nod and a smile. Hello everyone! Yes, surprise, they're here, and they're famous, isn't that fun.

Anyway yes, following colleague to the out of the way booth. Hopefully she can keep her partner from exploding from either horniness or anxiety.

There are six cushions on the floor around a low table with a teapot and teacups. "Would you like to order anything before the rest of your party arrives?"

fire_of_the_heart