Rarity

[petal_storm]

Who: Orchid, Any
When: Several years in the future in a baaaad dystopia but not quite as bad as some.
What: Medical debt is a killer.

Some days living was a pain.

Hell, most days honestly, especially when you were delicate. She was in hospitals more than out as far back as she could remember and eventually, like most longer term need people, debt got to a point there was no way for her family to pay it back. Her father had been lost when his plane went down on a mission out of states, and the nannies she'd been left with, well...

...they found employment elsewhere when the 'care' fund was drained due to medical.

She hit eighteen somehow which meant her debt officially went on the market, and, well, a lot of businesses ran on debt contracts.

Luckily she was...interesting. Visual appeal, much less textural, meant higher end places were willing to take on her whole debt instead of several having to group together, and that was how she ended up a headliner at 'Rarity', one of the more exclusive gentlemen's clubs. They didn't ave a cover charge, they didn't sell nickel peeps, no. Rarity had a yearly membership fee that was terrifyingly high and tips were more in the high end jewelry and vehicles range than bills in stockings.

She was lucky she supposed; it was high end enough her rooms met her needs and she spent less time in the hospital but...

...just like those in lower clubs they had a high drug use and burn out rate. How not?

Drugs were cheaper than medical care honestly.

"Ilya I told you not to let anyone slip you things," Orchid sighed, petting the poor girl's hair as she rested her head on the bar. They were were a twenty four hour business but they closed every six hours for a few hours to let people rest and the like.

"Didn't..." Ilya whimpered softly. "I don't know when, or how..." But she was drugged, her friend Orchid was like a living drug test, if she wasn't drugged Orchid would be touching her skin instead of her hair.

"Water," Orchid winced, "I'm sorry. I'll check your clothing and makeup, that's the last things that were delivered to you right? How close are you to debt free?"

"Two weeks," she sobbed softly. "I was doing so well..."

Damn it all. Orchid patted her hair again, "I'm sorry. I won't send you to the hospital, nor will the bartenders okay? You just have to fake it if the boss comes in while I'm gone okay?"Please?

"Try," she agreed, shivering. God she felt nauseous and numb now...

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Re: Rarity

[petal_storm]

"You're an amiable interrogator," she teased, pointing him to the backstage ladder.

Re: Rarity

[code_jaeger]

He grinned and climbed up the ladder?

Re: Rarity

[petal_storm]

She pinched him as he climbed, then winged up, trilling happily at him yes

Re: Rarity

[code_jaeger]

"I'm glad you can use your wings."

Re: Rarity

[petal_storm]

"Sore but that's normal, I know how to avoid people damaging them mostly..."

Re: Rarity

[code_jaeger]

"Ah good." He nodded.

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[petal_storm]

"Mmmhmmmm, don't think you'd pull my wings," she smiled, landing on a rafter to pose for him yes.

Re: Rarity

[code_jaeger]

"Never." He shook his head.

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[petal_storm]

"That is a lovely promise," she grinned sharply, practically dancing along the rafters.

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[code_jaeger]

He grinned following after her.

Re: Rarity

[petal_storm]

Ohhhh, he was nimble, she liked that judging by happy chuckle and fluffing in his direction yes, "arrrennn't there suppose to be questions?" she teased.

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[code_jaeger]

"Probably." He nodded. "But honestyl I don't want to bring it up right now..."

Re: Rarity

[petal_storm]

"Didn't say you only had to ask me bad things..."

Re: Rarity

[code_jaeger]

"Fair enough." He nodded. "Well are you into me?"

Re: Rarity

[petal_storm]

"Mmm, fluff for you..." she laughed. "Consider it...hmmm, verrry physical reaction to happiness in your presence? Arousal too..."

Re: Rarity

[code_jaeger]

"Arousal?" He blinked he hadn't expected that given the circumstance but...

Re: Rarity

[petal_storm]

"Warm can be attraction, explaining fluffing more than anything? Sorry to surprise you?"

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[code_jaeger]

"I like that you can?"

Re: Rarity

[petal_storm]

"Mmmm, crow mind helps. Hard to think of yesterdays or tomorrows when things are happening now."

Re: Rarity

[code_jaeger]

"That does help." He smiled.

Re: Rarity

[petal_storm]

"Mmmmhmmm, yes, coping when I need to cope, healthy when I need to be healthy..."

Re: Rarity

[code_jaeger]

"That seems about right." he nodded.

Re: Rarity

[petal_storm]

"And yoooou are lovely," she trilled softly.

Re: Rarity

[code_jaeger]

"Thank you." He smiled. "So are you."

Re: Rarity

[petal_storm]

"Mmmm, should see me with glitter in my wings," she teased, coming close enough t ghost feathers along his arm.