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Date & Time: April 1st, afternoon.
Location: The Hold and the marketplace.
Characters: Judal and Ringo
Summary: Ringo promised Judal a dragon (sweater). Time for some shopping??
Warnings: None!

[Waiting is really, really boring for Judal. It's especially bad when he's excited for something, so his patience is wearing really thin as he waits for Ringo to get herself over to the bottom floor of the building where they live. Those wheeled shoes must make her run a lot faster, right?]

So slow. Fine, then, if that's how it is... I'll just have to make her move faster!

[He huffs to himself and prepares to start texting, almost daring her to show up before he has a chance to blow her phone up Lady Gaga-style. She should never have giving him that emoji list.]

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[Unfortunately, they weren't actually going to be fighting any dragons, so she hadn't worn her a-t today. Fortunately she was pretty fast all on her own, and it's not too long after that she's approaching him with a wave (perhaps his tactic of impending phone-doom worked?!).]

Hey, Judal. All ready?

[She almost hoped he'd say no and that he had to go get dressed properly.]

[He perks up at her voice, jumping down from the short wall he'd been sitting on, and stands next to her in his bare feet. Sorry, Ringo, he's dressed in his usual clothes. At least she doesn't have to break any new fashion habits that are even worse, right?]

Ringo! Left your special shoes at home, huh?

[His tone implies, "So, that's why you were so slow". Aw, look, he's learning the basics of subtle insulting! How cute.]

I'm ready, so let's get going! I want to see if you were telling the truth.

Yes, I didn't want to make you feel strange since you left all your shoes at home.

[That was code for don't be a jerk, Judal. Not that she thought for a second that he's get that from it. Just as well: they could shop for both sweaters and shoes for him, and so she motions for him to follow along as she leads the way.]

Do I look like the kind of person that would lie about dragons?

Who needs shoes when you're as amazing as I am?

[All aboard the Ego Train, now heading towards No1curr Station. Sorry, Ringo, he's programmed to be that way from the start.]

You don't! But you don't look like the kind of person who would look for them, either. I'll have to see which one it is when we get there!

... Everyone. Everyone needs shoes. Haven't you seen those signs before? No shirt, no shoes, no service?

[She doesn't comment on the dragon topic further-- because ehehehe, she was technically pranking him. Ringo might have felt a little bad at first, but now she was aware of just how much help he actually needed.]

Never heard of it! If you're paying, shouldn't they be serving you, even if you're barefoot? How stupid!

[He walks behind her at a steady pace, trying not to get ahead of her in case she decides that lying is something he'd be mad over and runs off. That's what he'd do when faced with someone more powerful, anyway!]

[It's okay, she wasn't running. She feels confident that she could totally beat Judal up if it came down to physical strength (she was, after all, trained in the modern art of headlocks and noogies)]

That's dirty, though! You could be bringing in all kinds of extra germs, and it's a liability if anything bad happens to you in their store for not having shoes. [a beat.] Why don't you wear shoes, anyway?

[If it came down to physical strength and no magic, it would be no contest. Ringo would beat him down easily, even if he would never admit to that.]

What part of me looks dirty!?

[He gestures to his feet, which are somehow miraculously clean, despite almost never wearing anything on them. What a dirty cheater.]

I don't wear them because I don't need to! They're uncomfortable, anyway!

Not you! I know you're not dirty, but maybe a shop owner won't bother looking.

[God, he was so weird. She was just going to attribute it to whatever magic trick he'd done last time when he had levitated the chair.]

Does everyone dress like that where you're from?

If they're not looking, how are they even going to notice what I'm wearing at all? You're weird, Ringo!

[He raises an eyebrow at her.]

And what do you mean by everyone? You've met Kougyoku, right?

[Which is his way of saying "obviously not".]

[Ringo slows her pace for a moment so that Judal was beside her-- because she needs to reach over and pinch his arm when he calls her weird.]

Well, yes, and her clothes were incredibly intricate... is it only the men, then?

No, it's just me! I can wear whatever I want, because I'm the oracle.

[He tilts his head, grinning at her and crossing his arms proudly. If she's quick, she might even be able to get that pinch in.]

Those clothes are way too confining and hot.

[She'll surrender on the pinch; annoying him too much when she was going to try and get him into a sweater probably wasn't a good idea.]

Don't you get cold here? This weather is always pretty cold and gloomy. I'm sure a nice, oversized sweater would be more fitting to the area while not confining you.

[Sweater? covering up? What kind of foreign concept is that? He looks at her, a little baffled.]

I don't get cold! And if the more clothes I wear, the harder it's going to be to get them off when they wet later.

[Someone should just teach this boy about the magic of umbrellas at some point.]

... You're not supposed to let them get wet in the first place.

[She sighs, shaking her head at him. What rock has Judal been living under all these years?]

Anyway, don't you think some variety could look nice on you, too?

Who cares about "supposed to"? It happens anyway!

[He shrugs, holding his hands out helplessly.]

A signature look is good, but I guess having a few different things won't be bad. As long as it's not like what you showed up wearing when you got here.

[No bikini bottoms like when they first met, Ringo.]

Ew, no one would want to see you in anything like that!

[She huffs and promptly crosses her arms, hmph. So maybe her luck with clothes had never been too good, but come on. Thankfully they were almost to the store.]

You'll close your eyes once I tell you to, right?

No one wanted to see you in it, either, but did that stop you?

[He rolls his eyes.]

I'll promise to do it, as long as I don't think you're going to trick me into something. It's only fair!

[Iiiiiignores that first part.]

What would I even trick you with? We're in public.

There are lots of things you could do! For all I know, you might have a crowd of people waiting to dress me in the most humiliating clothes imaginable. Or you could have tamed the dragon long ago, and plan to have it attack me.

[He pauses, looking starry eyed for a moment.]

The second one would be amazing, though! I might even forgive you for attacking me, if you did it that way.

... sorry to disappoint you, but you're definitely not going to be attacked by the dragon.

[She comes to a stop then in front of a certain store and turns to him.]

Okay, close your eyes! I'll lead you by the hand or something but don't peak.

Fine, fine, I'm closing them!

[He does so, making sure she's looking at him as he does, and holds out his hands for her to take.]

This better be worth the trouble, Ringo.

[Sorry, Judal. You're in for some major disappointment.

She takes his hands and carefully leads him inside, soon stopping in front of a rack with a dragon sweater on it, standing behind him so that Judal can get a full view of that majestic piece (and also to tackle him if he tried to run away)]

Okay, you can look...

[He opens his eyes, ready to face down the surprisingly quiet animal, when he is shown... a sweater.]

What is that?

[He pauses for a moment, trying to process this. She can't be serious, can she?]

Is that supposed to be the dragon!? Ringo!

[Wow, okay, she's giggling at his reaction a lot more than she'd expected to.]

April Fool's, Judal! I win!

[Yeah, she's rolling with that.]

"April Fool's"!? What kind of stupid thing is that? I wanted a real dragon, you liar!

[Is he sulking? Underneath that anger, he totally is. Wow, what a manchild.]

Sorry, sorry! That's the point of April Fool's, though! It's sort of a Holiday where you're supposed to play pranks on people.

[She doesn't look very sorry, only because his super serious reaction was... oddly cute. For a grown man and all.]

You said pranks, right?

[He is immature enough that he's definitely going to get her back for this. In fact, he'll do it right now!

He pulls his wand pointing it at her with a tight grin.]

The fair is fair, Ringo!

[At least what he has planned isn't terribly vicious... By his standards, anyway.]

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