[ everyone. no exceptions, aventurine. she is imagining your ass with hooves right this second. ]

...that's one way to put it.

[ is she still bitter about needing to fix her entire comp and to handle a stupid aoe mechanic? no, absolutely not. am i? possibly. she shakes her head after a moment, finally returning to his first question. ]

It was for a friend. In the dream before this one- [ wait. hold up. ] -no, two dreams before this one. Before Penacony, even.

[ anywhere else, maybe she'd play her cards closer to her chest. if they were still navigating penacony's treacherous landscape, she'd keep aventurine exactly as close as she needed to keep an eye on him. but in a place like this... well. no harm in letting her guard down.

after all, it's not like the ipc can do anything in a dream. right? ]