fandomtownies | Turtle & Canary; Friday [05/19].

The new Squishy machine was being set up and installed that day, and it turned out that Amaya putting off doing so actually worked out great, because she knew, from having him in a few of her classes before, that Prompto was a bit more mechanically inclined himself. So not only was the shiny new machine, in all its copper piping and very "steampunk chic" aesthetics being hooked up today, but she could go over the changes to the machinery and all of the maintenance and technically stuff about taking care of it, especially if things go pear-shaped, with him as sort of the go-to in-house point person for it. Of course, of course, she was always available if needed, but being able to have Prompto on board with it and feeling confident that she could trust him to do a halfway decent job, well...that sounded pretty great to her.

And pretty great to Prompto, too, who was not only looking forward to working on some more mechanical stuff a bit more, but also was glad to find a good niche for himself around here to be more helpful. If he was their tech and maintenance guy, then maybe Apu would stop being such a jerk to him all the time!

...unlikely, but, hey, a guy could hope, right?

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At around lunchtime, Liz's usual text message complete with several photos of Noctra came through.

hi how is everything going? We're going good over here, we had a really good morning with our feed. We miss you and love you ❤️❤️❤️🥰🥰🥰🥰

Miss and love you too!!! ❤❤❤😘😘😘

That was the most important part, so that went first before Prompto was sending a bunch of pics over of the new Squishy machine, still in the process of being installed.

So this is a thing! Squishies will be back and Amaya's going to teach me all the ins and outs so i can be the go-to on the maintenance on it!

Liz smiled as she read the first text message that came through and then sent back love heart emojis ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

Then she saw the photos that were sent in the second message.

oh wow, that’s wonderful!!! 🥰🥰🥰 Liz wrote back, you’re going to be amazing at it, that’s great that Amaya is teaching you, do you think the squishy machine will be up and running today?

not today 😭 its got to run through some prep cycles first but definitely by tomorrow!

There was a slight pause between messages, then Prompto quickly added:

barring any unexpected mishaps anyway!

Sometime in the late morning Steven came by. "Prompto! Hello. How are you?"

"Oh, Steven!" Prompto met his entrance with a grin and a lift of his hand in a wave. "Hey! I'm good! Don't mind the mess, we're just getting the new Squishy machine installed! How have you been, man? Time to stock up on some things?"

"Don't think I've ever had a squishy before," Steven said, after taking a moment to see if the idea jogged anything in his memory. Though the inability to be fully certain was part of why he was there. "And here for something in particular, actually, if you have any. A journal? Something to write down what you've done in a day."

Which of course could be accomplished with a blank notebook, but Steven wasn't ruling out the potential for something more than that if it was available.

"Well," Prompto grinned faintly, "barring any unexpected mishaps, you'll have plenty of opportunity after today! But, in the meantime, yeah, we've got tons of stuff like that. Come on," he started to drift toward the aisles, with a wave of his hand to encourage Steven to follow, "I'll show you. Thinking of taking up journaling, huh?"

Steven followed along. "Yeah. Hoping it might help keep track of what I've done in a day? Not just scheduled things but memories."

"That's a great idea," Prompto complimented, as he lead Steven into the vast, moddable aisle of pens and papers, notebooks and journals, Post-It notes and those cool books with all the writing and drawing and activity prompts in them. "I mean," he chuckled a little, "personally, I know I'm way more of a 'picture's worth a thousand words' kind of guy, myself, but mad props to anyone who can actually sit down and write those thousand words, too."

"I've been taking pictures as well," Steven said. He felt extra proud of having done so now that Prompto had mentioned it. Of course arguably Prompto had a bias towards photography but still. "Course that requires remembering to do it. Sometimes I don't think to do it until it's too late."

Like with his lunch for Llewellyn last week which hadn't remained photo worthy after the journey to the station.

"It helps when you always have a camera on you, too," Prompto noted, managing to whip one out from...somewhere to demonstrate. "Never leave home without it! But that's been kind of my thing for practically ever now, it's pretty much just a reflex, second nature."

"I've been using my mobile," Steven said. "Usually have that with me. Maybe I should make a goal to try to help me remember? Take a certain number of photos each day or something?"

Steven was asking since Prompto taught classes in photography, he figured perhaps Prompto might have ideas on whether Steven was on the right track.

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