Pizza Planet, Monday

[carbsliftthespirit]

Raiden was honestly pretty down this Monday morning. His brothers had gone home, with Bellamy still a little further on the other side of Lust than anyone liked for him to stay for too long. Alastair had sent word ahead to Castor to please find them a nest of demons somewhere they could throw him at until he worked the bloodlust off, so hopefully he was okay by now, but Raiden was still worried about Arden. It sounded like whatever had happened there had been pretty bad.

He was handling this, of course, by stress eating, but people still needed pizzas, so here he was!

Specials
Pizza-Stuffed Pasta Shells
Eggplant Parmigiana Pizza
Pizza Lasagna

"No, I know two of them aren't pizza--you do know we sell pasta too, right? And anyway they're pizza-themed. It's fine. Stop bothering me."

Pizza Planet is open!

Comments

[thatwaslucky]

For some reason Rey disliked saying goodbyes to visitors here than she did when she was the one who left, maybe because she knew it'd be another year? Either way, she was coming in here today.

And kind of feeling a vibe here, but she'd never lead with that.

"This looks different," she said instead, looking at the specials.

[carbsliftthespirit]

"We do sell pasta, y'know," Raiden pointed out once he had chewed and swallowed his current mouthful of cheese bread. "And these are even pizza pastas."

They also sold salads, but no one was coming here for the--ooh, pizza salads. Salad pizzas? No. Pizza salads.

"Also the eggplant one is pizza pizza. Also, hi, Rey!"

[thatwaslucky]

"Hi, Raiden! I've always just focused on pizza, I think," she admitted. Was it because pizza was amazing? Yes it was. "How are you?"

[carbsliftthespirit]

She wasn't wrong.

"I'm good," Raiden said, if with less enthusiasm than he might usually have said that. "I miss my family already, though. Is that weird? I just saw them a few weeks ago, and then this weekend."

[thatwaslucky]

"Not at all," she said with a little smile. "I already called my friends today and they left less than 24 hours ago."

[carbsliftthespirit]

"Oh, I should call," Raiden said. "Check up on Bell. He had a...thing. A deadly sin thing," he attempted to explain, probably poorly.

[thatwaslucky]

Rey frowned. "A deadly sin thing?"

So not the best explanation...

[carbsliftthespirit]

Right. Pause. Rewind. "So my memory is famously bad, stop me if you've heard this before, but me and my brothers are the seven deadly sins. It's an Earth thing. Mostly you hear about it in Christianity, even though we're not really...yeah. But, uh, I'm Gluttony. Gray is Sloth." If she didn't already know this, Raiden was watching closely for signs of freaking out or assuming he was evil, because some people did at this point.

[thatwaslucky]

"That part I knew. And you're nephilim?" She hoped she remembered the right word.

[carbsliftthespirit]

"Right. Because my mother was human and my father was a fallen angel. Which means that he was an angel, from the celestial realm, but then he joined the rebellion against the Supreme Being and got kicked out. Anyway, Bellamy, my brother, is Lust. Which if you have seen Bellamy probably does not surprise you." He was really just an unfair-looking person.

[thatwaslucky]

"I feel like I can safely say I have not seen Bellamy."

He sounded memorable.

[carbsliftthespirit]

That was sad for her eyes. "Usually he's, you know...how people think of when they think of Lust. But sometimes he flips. To, uh. Bloodlust. And that happened yesterday, so I need to call home and make sure he's not, you know. Still randomly craving violence." Fun times.

"Anyway. Now that I brought the mood down, did you have a good weekend with your friends?"

[thatwaslucky]

"It was a good weekend," she said. "We can still talk about your thing, that sounds bad."

[carbsliftthespirit]

"Oh, no," Raiden said, "it's...it...I mean, yeah," he admitted. "But it wouldn't be a curse if it was all fun and games, right? And Bell'll be fine. He just needs to shake it off. The weekend was mostly good...until that bit at the end there."

And whatever the hell had happened with Arden, but he didn't know if Rey knew Arden, or if it was for him to share anyway.

"And Daman visited! That's huge, Daman hardly goes anywhere. And I think he had a nice time." Certainly Adrian had showed him a nice time. So, yeah, Raiden was well on his way to talking himself into being positive about how the weekend had gone. "Who was visiting you? Anybody I'd know?"

[thatwaslucky]

If he was going to be positive, she'd let him.

"Finn, Poe and BB-8," she said. "I don't think you have?"

[carbsliftthespirit]

"They don't sound familiar," Raiden had to admit after thinking about it for a moment. "The most important thing, though: do they like pizza?"

[thatwaslucky]

"They love it. I ordered some on Friday!" And she was back, what of it. "BB-8 gets a pass on that, he's a droid."

[carbsliftthespirit]

Raiden saw nothing wrong with that! If anything, that might be too long to go between pizzas. "Droid?" he echoed. "Like an android?" Those were science fiction where he was from, but Rey was from space, so he could see how they might be a real thing for her. "And he can't eat pizza? That's so sad."

[thatwaslucky]

"People here would probably call him a robot," Rey said, pulling out her phone to pull up a picture to show him. "He can't eat, but he supports us."

[carbsliftthespirit]

"...and he's adorable," Raiden observed. "He's so round!"

It was still extremely sad that he couldn't eat pizza, though.

[thatwaslucky]

"He's fantastic," Rey smiled. "And I think he'd love you."

[carbsliftthespirit]

"I'd love to meet him!" Raiden told her. "Maybe the next time he's in town you could bring him by?"

And then hopefully stay to translate, because Raiden spoke a ton of languages but binary was not among them.

[thatwaslucky]

"Of course," Rey grinned, putting her phone away. "I'm glad things are calmer in my galaxy now, but it makes it a little harder to invite people there."