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"Mmhmm." The idea gets her thinking. "That's true, but in the end, everyone gets forgotten, don't they? People who knew them fade away as well. In the end, only two things remember them." Death and Destiny. Lucky them. "Just have to live in the moment while you can, I guess." The statement is cheerful. "Even when it gets weird. Especially when it gets weird."

That reminds her... Picking a pokeball from her belt, she inspects it for her next question. "What do you plan on doing while you're here? I've heard a lot of people talk about these things called 'gym battles'- that interest you?"

He gets a small chuckle out of that. "Especially when it gets weird ... I must say I agree with you."

Cooper's seen his fair share of weird, after all - and in general, it wasn't the pleasant kind of weird, though it's made him appreciate moments more, to run with things. Working on Gordon's blue rose-cases will do that to you. But in the end, he still has the feeling that this woman - or girl, he's not really sure what age is appropriate to label her - has seen more than he has. She's intriguing.

Thinking about her question, he looks at the pokéball in her hand, taking hold of the one he owns that is, at the moment, resting in his coat pocket. "I'm not sure yet. Honestly, I never found contests very fulfilling, though I must admit I find the battling so far to be very engaging. It might prove a healthy exercise for your brain, if nothing else. How about you?"

"I think... I've had enough of conflict right now." Like she can escape it. After all, isn't that the sort of thing that is one of the requirements of the universe? But still. "I'm interested in the whole breeding thing, actually. Taking care of the Pokemon you have. Letting them breed."

Suddenly, she perks up and bounds forward, taking a hold of his hand. "Ah ha! Quest completed!" She's referring to the sign she sees up ahead, the word 'Cafe' written in small, elegant font. She tucks away Margaret's ball before smiling up at Cooper. "Shall we split the check?"

"Breeding! I haven't heard about that until now. I wonder why the notion didn't strike me." He nods, contemplating this with a smile. "It sounds like a good thing indeed. I think it would suit you."

A bit perplexed at the sudden outburst, he follows her gaze and his smile grows almost impossibly. "My friend, I believe we found the spot." He's a bit confused as to why she's holding his hand, but lets her. "Absolutely." Once at the cafe, he opens the door, inhales the aroma, and seems very, very pleased. "After you."

She's clasping her hands together as she enters, delighted at the smell. That's right, another thing great about this whole experience. And this is just one of many. "Thanks," she says over her shoulder before her gaze finds the menu.

Hmmm, so many choices... "I'm afraid I'm not the best when it comes to this kind of thing. Choosing which one and all. What would you recommend?"

Cooper follows her, closes his eyes for a second and lives and breathes the familiarity of a cafe. The scents of the various brews, the sounds of people talking, and just the atmosphere in itself all amounted to something he found - and would always find - very calming.

He exhales and stands next to her, looking at the menu as well. "I take mine black", he offers. "I like the sharp taste better when not dilluted by things." A lot of the things listed actually look pretty foreign to him, so he shrugs. "Quite frankly, I don't know half of these, though an espresso is always a good choice."

Ooooh, so it should be just like roulette. (Seen it, never played, unfortunately.) Eagerly, she browses the names before coming to a decision. "Number 5," she tells the cashier with a grin. Might as well try a new thing, right?

While the people behind the counter get to work, Dee looks around for an open seat. "You know another thing that's nice about this world," she mentions off handedly, "is that it has a soundtrack. That doesn't usually happen- oh, there we go-" She finds a spare table, setting down her backpack.

Her enthusiasm is something Cooper takes note of quite happily, as he tells the cashier his order right after she does. He likes the looks of this place and expects the coffee to be good, if not great. He can usually tell.

"You mean the background music? I find it a little odd", he answers, sitting down in front of her. He left his backpack at the inn he was staying it, finding it more convenient that way. He takes off his coat and folds it over the back of the chair. "I realize there are a lot of things here I can't possibly dream of understanding, but I'd really like to know where it's coming from."

"It would be fun to find out." She leans back in her chair. "After all, I don't think they have the time to just set up speakers everywhere. Then again, who knows." Her shoulders roll in a shrug. "Sometimes we can't explain everything. Not the way we want to."

"That, and we often find ways of over-compensating for our lack of understanding. After all, 'the simplest explanation is often the correct one'. Maybe they do have speakers everywhere."

Cooper smiles, and mirrors her movement of leaning back somewhat, just in time to look up and see a waiter-of-sorts bringing the coffee. He says a quick thank you, takes a sip of the coffee and makes a humming sound in delight, stopping all motion for a second. Simple pleasures in life are to be valued - and coffee definitely hits the spot.

"This", he says happily, "is damn fine coffee."

Just imagining speakers hidden in every nook and cranny, every tree and bush, is enough to make Dee giggle. When she gets it out of her system, she grins to the waiter and cups the coffee in her hand. There's a certain childish glee in her actions as she blows on the coffee, carefully testing it with her lips until she's sure it's not too hot. Finally, she takes a sip.

Oh. With a happy sigh, Dee sinks in her seat. "This is fantastic," she agrees, cradling the cup in her hands. "You sure know how to relax."

"I find it's an important thing to know", he tells her, feeling the coffee warm him before taking another sip of it, "especially if you don't often get the oppurtunity." He puts the white ceramic cup down, the contrast between it and the black beverage something he knows he'll always appreciate. It resonates with the suit he's wearing, even though he's not sure himself while he still is.

"I think you should give yourself a gift like this once a day, every day. It's good for the soul, if we have one."

"Sound strategy." Peering into her cup thoughtfully, she chuckles. "It's so easy to forget the amazing things in a life. Even if things are horrible, there's always that something. Does anyone ever imagine what it would be like to never know the taste of coffee or soaking up sunshine?" Her eyes slip shut.

"Things are always changing as well. Music, viewpoints, games- everything imaginable. It's not just in the long term, but day after day, second after second. Everything moves so fast..." She opens her eyes again and takes a sip of her coffee. "And then it's gone." Setting it down on the table, Dee smiles at him.

"I think I'll have some coffee everytime I'm in a town in Johto."

He decides he most definitely likes this person.

"I think that might just be what separates us from the animals - that we're always rushing. We choose to embrace the changing things in life and be afraid of the constant, stable ones ... death, time. And taxes, as the saying goes."

Cooper smiles back at her, absently stirring his coffee a little with the spoon that came along with it. Not because it's needed, but because it's a little something to do.

"Me too, of course. Why just Johto, though?" he asks her, noticing how she specified that location.

"Hmmm, I guess you could say this is kind of a vacation for me? I'm usually too busy to do much but work." Idly, she traces the rim of her cup. "I'm surprised I've been here this long, in a way. Usually I get just a single day to do whatever I want. Now, I don't know when I'll have to stop what I'm doing and go back."

A weak heart? Lungs? Her brain? Without much concern, she wonders if it's the body itself that's weak or some outside force that will do it.

She takes another sip of her coffee. "So I'm taking things one step at a time. Every city in Johto, and then everywhere else in this world if I turn out to stay this long." She chuckles. "I'd like to savor my time here anyway."

Cooper smiles across the coffee cups, listening to her words while warming his hands somewhat on the cup he's holding. He takes a little while to respond, thinking about what she's said before answering.

"I think I know what you mean. I'd definitely like to make use of the time I'm going to stay here as well, however long it may be. In all honesty, the thought of going back now finds me with some sadness - though I'm still a little anxious to see how things are going back home and worried that they might need me, there's something about this world that strikes me with a calm I really appreciate."

He pauses for a while and takes another sip of coffee, looking like he still finds the flavour a really nice surprise.

"In many ways, I guess you could say I also consider this my vacation. I haven't had the time to take a break like this for a very long time, though whatever it is that you do sounds more demanding regarding time." Another, very brief, pause, before he leans forward a little. "I'm curious. What kind of work is it that you do?"

Just as patiently as he had listened to her, she listens right back. It's something she's grown good at all these years, and she does rather like it. While she's pretty sure they're not exactly thinking of the same things, she does sympathize a lot with what he says.

She knows that everything will be taken care of in her absence, knows that her siblings can usually handle themselves well enough... But still.

The question has her duck her head, a failed attempt to hide her little smile. Or maybe it's not an attempt at all. "It's a people heavy position. I meet people and then, at the end of a really long day-" Greed's comments about the days blurring together into one long one comes to mind, making her smile widen. "-I show them out to where they think they need to go. Like the greeter at a hotel, I guess is the closest thing to it."

Ah. He makes a mental note of this, and gives her a sort of half-knowing smile.

"I suppose it isn't my place to ask for details, if you're providing me with metaphors." He doesn't mind, though. "I hope you don't find it intrusive of me to ask, but are you even from this world? A lot of people I've met seem to be of different universes - or different times."

This is something that he's found very interesting - how whatever brought them here seems to have a greater control of all these worlds, realities, universes - so whatever it or who it is, must be truly powerful or in possesion of something that is. Just what, he knows he probably can't even imagine, though it doesn't halt his curiosity regarding what it could be.

"I find it more fun when people figure out what I do for themselves." She winks teasingly. "So far it's been two, although I helped out a bit." If nothing else, Envy's reaction had been fun...

It's a smart observation, one that's no doubt been picked up by others but perhaps not paid as much attention to. "Someone seems to have made this something of a 'soft place'." Dee takes a long gulp of her drink before explaining. "There are places all across the universes where time and space shift. You can meet a child and, a few minutes later, meet that child as an adult. They have reaches in strange places. There's no telling when someone will stumble onto one. But this seems a bit more... manmade than natural."

With a sigh of a laugh, she shakes her head. "I'm so glad my brother warned me something weird was about to happen."

"You make it sound like I should know." He shakes his head, but considers this. "In a way, though, it wouldn't surprise me. As we've concluded before, all things are a bit different here, in lack of a stronger word."

Cooper listens carefully, with a frown of concentration marking his forehead just a little. Abstract thinking wasn't unfamiliar to him, of course, but you still needed a bit of focus discussing these things.

"You seem to know what you're talking about", he states, spinning the coffee cup in his hands slowly. "Is this what you think, or what you know?"

He ignores the comment about her brother, for now.

"I know." The answer comes without hesitation, a simple fact. Her smile is simple, now, to match it as she looks at Cooper. "I've been around for a very long time and have been to a lot of places.

"Of course," she adds, shrugging, "just because I can say what this is, or at least similar to, doesn't mean I know the how. I guess I'll figure that out while I'm here."

He shakes his head again, smiling. "You're a cruel person, Dee. I want to know how you know, and why, but I already have a feeling you won't tell me."

He finishes his coffee, almost regretfully so, but he'd rather do it while it was warm than wait for it to cool. It's just not the same. "I suppose I don't mind doing a bit of investigative work on my own, though. Perhaps I'll figure it out. It's part of my job, after all."

"Heh. One of my siblings told me that the way to get people interested is to show just a bit but not everything." Finishing off what remains of her own coffee, she sets it down and stands up.

"If I learn anything of my own, I'll tell you," she says, honest. "Two heads are better than one. Isn't that how the saying goes?"

"Well, you've certainly caught my attention."

Cooper stands as well, getting his coat from the back of the chair in the same motion. He finds his wallet, to which he's transferred the money he recieved upon his arrival, and puts a bill on the table as payment for the, in all actuality, very good coffee.

"That's the saying, yes. I always found it to be very true. I'll be sure to tell you anything I might find out as well. This is quite a grand mystery, don't you think?" He genuinely enjoys it, though, and it's easy to tell. "Who knows what might happen once we solve it."

"Isn't the answer obvious?" Smiling, she walks around the table. "There will be another mystery. A never ending cycle." She stands on the tips of her toes to kiss him on the forehead before she goes back to get her pack.

"Thanks for having coffee with me." She slings it over her shoulder before waving at him. "We'll have to do it again sometime."

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[action] sorry, got hit with a migraine

Re: [action] ah, no worries (: hope you're okay now

[action] Much better! Sleep schedule got messed up tho

Re: [action] ohdeer my sleeping habits are permanently messed up xD

[action] Oh my. XD You poor dear.

Re: [action] not really, it's my own fault xD

[action] But still. XD; Fix that schedule!

Re: [action] sleep is for the weak! D:

[action]sleep is for the not dead!

Re: [action]sleep is for the not dead!

[action] coffee buddies

Re: [action] coffee - the start of any beautiful friendship!

[action] A moment that shall go down in history

Re: [action] -thumbs up, true Cooper-style-

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[action] whooo mixing in canon maybe

Re: [action] yay for canon! cooper wants to know all about it.

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