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[eidxiety]

[Ain does not speak for all Sirens!! He has full confidence his brothers are out there fucking women! Ain himself though... he craves egg.]

What's a career? Is it like being a shaman?

[You know, like, a job?]

[dyn4m0]

[It's fine, Ain is only one Siren out of many, so he can crave egg all he wants.]

A career is a job. So, yeah...kindof, I guess. It's like what I do, as a scientist.

So, if you had a career in singing, you might be a musician, or an actor, or something.

[eidxiety]

What do actors do?

[Add is going to have to answer like, four hundred questions here sorry.]

Do you think I could be a musician? That sounds fun. I like singing. I liked painting that time you brought that in, too. Is that a career?

[He's staring up at Add, laying on his back, and through the surface of the water, he's perfectly clear to Ain. Ain... really wants to swim with him. Pull him into the water and cuddle up to him while he tells Ain about stuff... but realistically they can't keep lying about why Add's in the tank. Ugh.]

[dyn4m0]

[You know maybe one of these days Add will realize he shouldn't keep introducing new topics to Ain for him to ask endless questions about...but he's made his bed, so now he has to lay in it.

He pushes the bucket a little further away as he crosses his legs beneath him, resting his elbows on his knees so he can rest his chin in both hands.]

Actors perform in movies and stuff. Like...they basically pretend to be someone they're not for peoples' entertainment. They tell stories, more or less. Acting, making music, painting...they're all careers. You don't need a career though, you're a Siren. Sirens don't need jobs, and you don't need to make money, right?

[Unless Sirens have some kind of secret bartering system, Add would LOVE to learn about that.]

[eidxiety]

Will you show me a movies?

[Ain rolls over onto his belly and swims up, then starts to drag himself out of the tank so he can lay on the landing next to Add. Hi! Better push him back in—]

We don't need "money". What's money? If I have money, what do I get?

[Food, probably.]

[dyn4m0]

[He is rolling you back into the water like a gas station hot dog. You get called good boy ONCE and get Uni ONCE and suddenly think you're allowed to do everything!!

Add will be longing for this behavior when Ain is suddenly begging for eggs again.]

If you're really good and behave, then I'll consider it. I still have a job to do, you know, I can't just sit around watching movies all day.

[Though if he said it was for research...]

Money is what humans use to trade for things. It's what we need to get the food I feed you every day.

[eidxiety]

[Wheeeeee! Ain rolls and falls back into the water with a small splash. There's a sad WAHHH as he gets rolled.]

Oh, you trade? You don't hunt? Who hunts? Are you not a hunting human? Humans are so strange... you must take your jobs very seriously if you make others hunt for you...

[dyn4m0]

Hah. Humans haven't needed to hunt for themselves for centuries. We have people now whose entire career is to hunt, and farm, and all sorts of other things. Though, I don't think I'd mind giving it a try...

[Yeah because you are feral and something's wrong with you.]

But it's a lot more efficient to pay someone who hunts for a living to hunt for you. Make sense?

[eidxiety]

[Sloooowly creeping back up to try getting to Add again...]

What does money look like? If I give you a lot of pearls and shells, can this be money? What about bones? I have lots of bones~.

[Noodling... up onto the platform...]

[dyn4m0]

[This time, Add is talking with his gaze towards the ceiling, so he isn't fuuully paying attention...so Ain doesn't get rolled back in just yet.]

Pearls are probably worth something. Not shells or bones though. Pearls are pretty rare, and the bigger they are, the more expensive they are.

[eidxiety]

They're rare? But I have a bunch of them...

[It helps that Ain can generally extract them without damaging them, too, and that he's able to see them quicker because he's used to them. Sirens like pearls. They make jewellery out of them, and once Ain gets his paws on a very strong kelp leaf (and stops shoving them into the filter) it's Over, he's going to have such a pretty necklace.]

Can I get "money" for uni?

[There's a very sudden galumph! and then he's up on the platform with his full weight. Hi!]

[dyn4m0]

It depends on their size, too. A hundred pearls the size of a grain of salt won't be worth much at all, but even just ten or twenty pea-sized pearls or larger might be worth a lot more.

[He doesn't know, he's not a jeweler, but he can make an educated guess.]

Also, you should focus on being allowed to walk in the facility before you start thinking about getting money, Ain.

[They aren't going to let you buy the fancy shit, that's for special occasions ONLY---

And then Add huffs as Ain suddenly plops himself up onto the platform. He frowns at him.]

Did I say you could be up here?

[eidxiety]

You said yesterday I could be "out" when you came back. I want to be out!

[Unfortunately for Add, Ain is going to curl up like a snake around him and lay his head in the man's lap.

He's purring.]

Sirens like pearls. We use them to make necklaces. We can use bones from the things we eat to pierce the membranes of our headfins and wear them as fin decorations, too. Certain bones loop around and can fit well in the hole, or even around the fin if it's shaped well enough, and pearls can be stuck onto the bone and make you look pretty~.

[Earrings for Sirens are like earrings for humans but with much more complications.]

[dyn4m0]

Well, yeah, but you didn't even ask!

[And yet here he is, his fat ass out on the platform...and before Add even knows what's happening, Ain has curled up around him and...has his head in his lap.

The purring makes Add's skin prickle along the back of his neck, and for a moment he keeps his hands awkwardly at his sides. He isn't entirely sure what to do at first, until he notices that Ain's hair is all messy...

...

He frowns, reaching over tentatively to brush a few of the wet strands back into place.]

So you make earrings.

[eidxiety]

[Purring intensifies.]

Is that the human word for them? Hehe... I'll give myself an "earring", but you won't like coming in to watch me pierce my headfins~.

[This is how you FRIGHTEN him, Ain. That's how you scare the scientists.]

Oh, and I don't have to ask, because you told me I could already.

[dyn4m0]

W...what's that supposed to mean?

[Ain you can't just SAY that-]

God, you're so...

[He isn't even sure what word he wants to use here, so he ends up trailing off, fussing with Ain's hair a bit more.]

[eidxiety]

[Sorry, Ain is comfy and will be a brat about it until he is no longer comfy.]

It doesn't mean anything.

[Remember how he was sleepy, though? Remember how his heats make him tired? It seems that he's falling asleep in Add's lap...]

[dyn4m0]

No, it...

[...ah. He's asleep...

Add sighs, shaking his head as he brushes Ain's hair a time or two more with his fingers. Given that he's coiled up around him, he has to slightly awkwardly extricate himself from the Siren as he stands, barely managing to do so without waking him up. He'll carefully push him back into the water after that, closing the tank grate overtop.

What is he going to do with this fish, honestly...

He has a lot of work to do as it is, so assuming Ain sleeps the rest of the day away, he'll finish logging his research, doing his paperwork and reports, and then head out so he can start it all again tomorrow. Not knowing that tomorrow won't just be like this with a sleepy Siren and all.]

[eidxiety]

[Ain will wake up when pushed back into the water and be a little annoying for another hour before he falls back asleep again... he doesn't understand why Add won't cuddle like a normal person (ain he has issues babe) but he will have a mini fit about it before he goes off to his hide and sleeps until lunch, then plays a bit, then sleeps until dinner.

Yeah, little does Add know this level of crashing is because he's going to be horny and restless all night, and all day tomorrow. Like, Ain is very visibly agitated on the nighttime cams this time, swimming in short, rapid circles and making frustrated chirping sounds that sound almost like how he screams when he's upset about getting shots. Add's going to have quite a few texts detailing that Ain's heat seems to be hitting him very strongly now, since he's been up all night in some sort of fugue state. They'd almost think he was sick if the night staff didn't come to check up on him and see him furiously rubbing his slit by accident. Whoops.

When Add comes in, Ain isn't out of his cave, but it's clear by the amount of general stuff floating in the water — one of his flasks, the ball, the rings, and the chew toys, and his bedding — that he'd basically been so restless he'd torn the entire tank apart. Thank goodness his cave is nailed down or he would've flipped that too, probably.

He's laying facedown in the sand dying. The top of his head is visible in the fluorescent lights, and Ain's tentacles are poking just outside the cave. Help.]

[dyn4m0]

[Well! This is...definitely not what Add wanted to walk into this morning...

Those texts are concerning enough. Here he was hoping the one treatment would be enough, but that was definitely wishful thinking. Is he going to have to do a second? If he has to, then he has to, anything to keep Ain from being stressed and uncomfortable, but...

Add hasn't yet forgotten how he himself reacted the last time he did that to Ain, and he's still disgusted at himself for it. Maybe there's an alternative, but what?

For now, he has to check up on him first...he enters his office more than a little tense that morning, turning on the light to see just how much of a wreck Ain's tank has become.]

Christ...Ain? Can you hear me?

[eidxiety]

Mmphgheghhh.

[Yeah, he can hear you. He's eating sand, though. He slept all day, he was up all night, he has rearranged the house. It's like nine in the morning and he's ready to be Stuffed.]

Pweh... [Rolling his head to the side, Ain coughs up some sand in an unpleasant brown cloud.] Morning... sorry, I'll clean up...

[dyn4m0]

Ain...

[Fuck, okay. Add shucks his fingers back through his hair, his brow furrowed as he slowly approaches the tank. Yeah, he reviewed the footage, and he knows enough about Siren behaviors to tell just from the way Ain's acting now...]

Don't worry about it. How are you feeling?

[eidxiety]

Hot... sore... a bit grouchy, maybe? I don't know... I know the heat's back. Stronger than last time. I've been really restless all night, I haven't slept.

[Aaaand his face is going back in the sand with a dramatic womp.]

[dyn4m0]

[Fuck. Fuck. Okay...

Add shifts his weight back on his heels, watching as Ain flops sadly into the sand.

...]

Stronger, huh.

[He knows the treatment helped, but it clearly wasn't a permanent fix...]

...we can try the procedure again. If you want.

[eidxiety]

Mmpehhgh.

[Sorry let him de-sand real quick. This is going to continue.]

Do you think it'll really work this time...? Heat usually wears off after a week, and I think it's almost been that long... so between that and maybe trying again, I'll probably be back to normal soon.

[Add also unfortunately picked up the horniest creature he possibly could.]

I just think I need more this time. And I don't want to bother you.