Seeing Snakes (Seiji)

[Sorcha Adams]

Sorcha had managed to get herself a night off from security duty and like most of her time off she wasn't about to spend it lazing around the Academy. She spent enough time there while she worked and while she lounged for her afternoon naps. Once afternoon had passed and dusk was beginning to set in she was always wide awake and wired for action. There was no way she was going to sit around and spend a quiet evening in the school library or something. She craved action and excitement and absolutely loved the added possibility of potentially bringing some trouble home with her.

Bar hopping usually fit the bill, so she'd decided that she'd head into town and stop by the Silverlight for a while to see if she could find some entertainment there. If nothing else she could have a few drinks and get a nice buzz going before hopping on the dance floor and enjoying the music. Potentially meeting a dashing stranger was merely a perk.

She dug out her shortest pair of shorts and a light shirt with a hem that stopped half way between her bust and her bellybutton. She slipped into a pair of gladiator sandals and decorated herself with a collar style choker and several hoops in each of her ears. As per usual her underwear was left in its drawer back in her dorm.

The bar wasn't exceedingly full when she arrived, but there was a steady trickle of people coming through the doors and once the sun was completely down it would likely start to get crowded. She didn't mind. She'd opted not to wear any contact lenses so the more people there were the less she'd stand out in the crowd when her sunglasses inevitably came off. The mutant cat was out of the bag now anyhow, so she felt she could be slightly more careless. If she ran into any trouble she could just hightail it back to the school. Besides, she could handle losing a pair of cheap sunglasses better than misplacing a more expensive contact if she got a little too tipsy and somehow wound up pulling them out of her eyes.

She settled herself at the bar and ordered a beer to start off with. She could switch to harder alcohol a little later when the crowd filled in and she was feeling slightly more comfortable. For now, though she was content sitting at the bar and working toward a buzz while she watched the patrons and decided on her next course of action.

[Seiji Lockard]

Seiji didn’t have any work to be done at the academy and didn’t have any late night classes after he finished up early. Tonight was a night to celebrate! A few other members in his one lab class were successful in create a new version of an anti-venom that not only acted faster than the previous anti-venom serum, but it also helped with skin repair. Unlike before where people would have to deal with a nasty looking bite and have to get surgery, their skin cell were able to recover on their own. So everyone in Seiji's class went to celebrate and yes Seiji wanted to go with them because he was a social butterfly, but that was not happening. Not when he knew for a fact most of his class mates in the lab class had a fear of snakes. Even less when he currently had on him Leevi, who was his snake with the worse control over personal space.

So Seiji went to the Silverlight for his own little celebration, seemed a bit sad to be celebrating alone, but that was what he was used to and really didn’t mind at all. Didn’t even think about it as he stood at the bar counter having a Bloody Mary with a wedge of lemon. He was not like the biggest fan of the drink, but he felt like mixing things up tonight, probably going to have several different drinks; which did not bode well for his system, but oh well. He was wearing all white, with a black tie. White pants that seemed to be iron pressed, a button up long sleeve shirt, and a black tie that was worn loosely. Dressed up sort of fancy from the presentation from earlier, but his shirt was untucked. Leevi meanwhile hiding hooked to Seiji's belt covered by the shirt. Leevi could smell people and he wanted to get a good look at them all. One in particular was pretty close.

The 2.5 foot Eastern Kingsnake peeked his head out just a little from out under Seiji's shirt, his master distracted with his drink and trying to figure out if it was Worcestershire sauce or Tabasco sauce used this time. Leevi made his move, there was a beautiful lady close by that had so much skin showing, not leaving much for him to hide under and explore but also drove the snake to be even more tempted to slither under her clothing. Using the underside of the bar to travel close, his darker body able to keep him hidden as he moved closer. It was a bit too late for Seiji to grab Leevi when he felt that the snake was a bit too far from him. Leevi already reaching out and doing something of a lung to hook himself on Sorcha. Two places his main targets, going down would be easy, so he went for up. Aiming to get under that light shirt.

Maybe she won’t feel a thing. Maybe so won’t notice. Who am I kidding, if Leevi is killed it’s his own fault. Seiji thought immediately, face turning a little bit red and he quickly drank his drink. Trying to figure out how he was going to play this. Was he going to play it off or apologize? Most likely apologize.

[Sorcha Adams]

Sorcha had gotten about half way through her bottle of beer and had settled the small of her back against the bar so that she could relax and watch the dancers on the bottom floor for a while. She was getting used to the volume of the music by that time and the smell of so many bodies sporting so many different flavors of perfume and sweat was becoming less overwhelming. She was adjusting to the atmosphere relatively quickly and it wouldn't be too long before she felt comfortable enough in the environment with her boosted senses to get into the thick of things. Maybe one more drink once her bottle was empty and she'd be good to go.

She was just lifting the bottle to her lips and wondering how the crowd on the top floor compared to that on the bottom when she felt a sudden weight hit her hips followed by the sensation of something sliding up her skin. Surprised, she jumped a step away from the counter and nearly spit out the mouthful of beer, instead managing to swallow it somewhat painfully before sputtering up the air bubble that had gone down with it.

Spinning on her heel to see if she could spot the creep that had already gotten handsy with her, she was distressed to find that there wasn't anyone directly behind her but the sliding sensation was still very much present. Her beer hit the floor, mercifully not shattering when it landed, and her hands shot toward her shirt near her chest where the sliding seemed to be aiming for. She found the foreign lump beneath the fabric easily enough and followed it down the the still exposed portion of the scaled body hanging around her stomach. Without even thinking about the teeth on the other end she yanked it out from under her shirt and held the offender in front of her face.

How the hell had a snake gotten into her clothing? She stared at the reptile in confusion as it began to coil around her wrist and hand, thankfully seeming docile enough that it hadn't decided to bite her just yet. She wasn't about to grab at its face to ensure it couldn't bite her, though. Best not to antagonize it unnecessarily since she didn't know if it was venomous or not. "Don't you know you're supposed to introduce yourself, maybe even buy me a drink before you just help yourself," she said dryly, wondering what the hell she was supposed to do with a stray snake now that she'd caught it.

[Seiji Lockard]

Seiji could not help but to jump a little as well at seeing Sorcha jump forward. Yup, Leevi is dead. It was nice knowing you pal. Seiji thought as he completed his drink, unable to help but peek over to see what was going to happen to his snake. The woman looked a little familiar, like he had seen her around before, but he did not know her name or anything like that. At least she was not screaming or choking, Seiji would have felt really bad then. His blush seemed to get a little worse because of the information Leevi was sharing with him. Why did all his snakes feel the need to share in their experience with him? There were just some things that he should not know. He was really going to have to consider staying away from woman...however he knew his snakes were likely to do the same thing to men. So really he might have been better off as a hermit.

Seiji quickly looked away when Sorcha spun around, as if she was looking for the person who was brave enough to feel her up. Heck they had to be really brave, like balls of steel in order to pull a move like Leevi did and he was a snake. Seiji sucked in a breath at the beer being dropped, letting it out only when it did not shatter on the floor. Still some people might have been looking now; he was not sure since his eyes were now back on Sorcha and her bravely pulling out Leevi. Seiji already had respect for her for the fact that she had not been screaming for someone to remove something out from under her shirt. He even half expected her to rip the snake in two or throw it on the ground, but Leevi moved quickly to wrap his body around her hand and arm. He would be giving a coy look or possibly a wink if he was able to make facial expression, but as a snake he could not do much besides flick his tongue.

Oh you are so lucky. Seiji sent the thought to his snake that was still giving him information about how Sorcha smelled, her heart rate, and measurements. Leevi didn’t plan on biting her, he was not venomous, but he still had a nasty bite, but he was not a biter, he was an explore. Seiji knew he could not stand by and just leave Sorcha with his snake, Leevi was his responsibility. He cleared his throat. "His name is Leevi. I'm Seiji and I would happily buy you a drink in exchange that we pretend that my snake did not just feel you up." Seiji spoke quickly, sort of looking at Sorcha, but his eyes looked pasted her as he tried to get rid of his embarrassment. See if he had skill he could have used that as a way to flirt, but really what kind of person used a snake to help pick up chicks or dudes? "I'm so, so very sorry." Seiji quickly followed up with, while Leevi was still looking at Sorcha, keeping his body wrapped around her hand and arm.

[Sorcha Adams]

Sorcha looked past the snake as a young man approached and began speaking to her, still slightly bewildered by the whole scene. If she could hazard a guess she'd say the guy was roughly around her age, slim, just about the same height as her and not altogether unpleasant to look at. He was also pretty red around the cheeks. She didn't think she'd ever seen him before, but she was living at the school and went into town fairly often, so it was possible that they'd passed each other before at least. Though she was pretty sure she'd remember a guy carting around a frisky snake.

"So this troublemaker belongs to you, huh?" she replied, arching a brow as subtle amusement slowly replaced the surprise in her expression. He was acting much too abashed to have planned the whole thing, and from what little she knew about snakes she was pretty sure that they could sneak away from their handlers pretty easily if their attention lapsed for more than a few seconds. Snake owners almost always had at least one story of snake escapes and the hunts for them that followed.

She stretched her hand toward the young man so he could retrieve his snake, though she suspected it might take a moment to untangle it. She spread her fingers apart once she was sure the reptile was capable of holding onto her without her added support, hoping it would make it easier for him to slide it off of her wrist. It would probably be safer to let him do the detangling, lest the snake become alarmed or something at her handling it.

"I won't argue if you insist on replacing the beer I just lost," she said in reply to his offer, giving a bit of a grin as she spoke. Now that the surprise had worn off she was fairly amused by the situation, rather than angry about it. It wasn't like the guy had intentionally stuck the slippery serpent down her shirt or anything. "My name's Sorcha. And don't worry about it. Wouldn't be the first time a guy's snake got away from him around me."

[Seiji Lockard]

Seiji did give Sorcha a once over, after all she was a very attractive woman and her lack of cover of her body was very tempting. However after a second he was focused with keeping his eyes on her face. Knowing better and would not even entertain such thought for many reasons, mainly relating to his whole, always having a snake on him. With said snakes always trying to sneak onto other peoples bodies and give him information about it. Seiji already knew that Sorcha had soft skin and her bra size roughly, not entertaining anything else about or related to that at all. Nope. Leevi however was enjoying this all, he still had more to explore on Sorcha but he would have to wait. Can’t do all of his exploring in one night. This woman was brave and quick to react; he didn’t even get to get all that far before she caught him so he had to play things carefully.

"Yes, I'm so very sorry. He has a bad habit of putting his head where it does not belong." Seiji said, clearly having more than one story of this happening. He tended to only have to worry about this with Leevi, but apparently Akiko had picked up that habit, but only with people who said she was cute. Leevi would do it to anyone, didn’t care if they called him cute or ugly, he was still going to explore. Leevi was giving Seiji an approving nod and letting him know what he would do if he were a human. If Leevi were human he be a perverted old man, or young man since Leevi was not all that old...young boy might even be more accurate if he was going by precise years.

Shh, no more thoughts from you for a little. Seiji scolded Leevi as he reached out to take his snake when Sorcha held it out to him. Leevi wanting to still cling to the woman, but untangled his body and moved to slither his way into Seiji's hands, and then quickly right up his long sleeve shirt to hide as if he was embarrassed. Not like he was, but Sorcha could not read his thoughts so it was okay. "I replace your beer and give you any drink of your choice. My treat. Have to make up for more than a lost beer." Seiji said speaking honestly as his eyes drifted to the mess before looking back to Sorcha. After all it was his snake that just go up her shirt and that was clearly bad manners and probably a crime if Leevi was not a snake. Talk about sexual harassment. "Nice to meet you Sor-" Seiji went to say with a smile on his face but it quickly fell to an even more embarrassed look as he started to feel hot.

No, she meant it in a literally way. She was not implying anything. She so was. Oh god, am I? Seiji could not help but to look down at himself for a moment and then left out a breath. Oh no, I'm normal. Oh dear, I did that in front of her. She might not have noticed. This is your fault Leevi. Seiji was very much so panicking on the inside as his heart started to beat a little faster, having to rub his face for a moment to calm down the blush, then clearing his throat. "I can...understand why. After all you have a very nice body, smooth skin, and the way you carry yourself makes you desirable. Unless you were not talking like another term for the male anatomy in which case I’m sounding like a very foolish perv and I'm just going to stop talking now. Just tell the bartender whatever you want and I'll pay." Seiji spoke super-fast and by the time he was done he had turned back around. Leaning heavily on the bar and had his face covered by his hands. Mortified a little.

[Sorcha Adams]

Sorcha managed no to laugh but couldn't hold back the wide grin that spread across her face when the young man, Seiji as he'd introduced himself, made a conspicuous check of his person and then launched into explanations and apologies in reply to her teasing comment. She was being rather bold in her introduction, but she was out to have fun so she wasn't reigning herself in perhaps as much as she should have been. But it was worth it to see his already red face turn several shades darker.

So far it seemed to be a good start to the night in spite of the initial shock of a snake crawling into her shirt. At the very least is had lead to a meeting with a fairly cute guy and she had already been promised an additional drink after she'd replaced her lost beer. She hadn't made up her mind yet whether or not she'd accept the second drink, though after her next beer was gone she might not be so hesitant. Not that she though accepting an additional drink from the young man was a dangerous move, she just wanted to be sure she paced herself so she could ensure she'd be able to spend at least a few hours in the bar dancing and mingling without getting too wasted too quickly. She'd be able to enjoy her night more if she could remember it in the morning.

While Seiji proceeded to try and disappear into his hands at the bar, she stepped back to the counter next to him and waved down the bar tender to replace her lost drink. She'd put the cost on her tab for the time being and let him get the money to her before she paid for everything at the end of the night. He seemed a little too preoccupied to be reaching for his wallet at the moment anyway.

Once the drink was in her hand she returned to leaning her back against the bar, taking a swig of the drink before placing her elbows on the edge of the counter on either side of her. "So," she began, briefly leaning closer to the young man to be sure he caught her words and knew she was addressing him, noting that the cologne he seemed to be wearing was much nicer than most of the others she could smell in the air, much subtler and with a hint of sweet, citrusy tang that she found very pleasing to her nose, "it's not too often you see anyone bringing their pets to a bar. Do you make a habit of carrying him everywhere or do you just really like going to clubs and buying apology drinks for women?"

[Seiji Lockard]

Seiji caught the grin that meant she had to have seen him look down, or something about this all was funny. Either way he understood and would not have been upset if she laughed at him. It might make him more embarrassed or possibly ease up, either way she didn’t laugh and remained hidden in his hands. If this had been a cartoon or an anime he would be surrounded by deep sea creatures to show just how down and devastated he was. Sorcha was for sure a very interesting woman. Her clothing combined with her words just seemed like too much for the pansexual twenty-four year old. It was going to be an interesting night for sure if she stayed around, which seemed to be the case since he did owe her a drink and all. He really needed to get some kind of leash for his snakes and hook them to his belt, but when he let them move around freely it aided him.

How to recover? What to say? Seiji was thinking since he knew that he could not just remain trying to hide there. He was at least able to settle his blushing and get his heart rate back to normal. Yet he was still feeling pretty hot, but he figured it was just the atmosphere combined with more people coming in and the heat coming off from the people who were 'shaking what their mothers and fathers gave them.' Seiji never understood why people just said shake what your mother gave you since it took both a mother and father to form you and both parents’ genetics came from the parents. What if someone’s big butt came from their father? He was going on a tangent of thoughts now, but it at least settled him enough that he was able to lift his head up from his hiding place.

Sorcha ordered her drink, to which he ordered himself another drink, this time getting himself a martini, a classic gin-based cocktail. Getting strong drinks for a reason and not too worried about how he was going to get back home. He had his snakes to help out with that and he didn’t bring his car along tonight, so he would be fine...mostly. He looked at her drink, taking in the cost and going to get out his wallet, thinking for a moment that having it put on his tab would have made this easier. He might just give her two hundred bucks, which would cover the drink and then some. He pulled out the two hundred dollar bills and slid them over to her, not really giving eye contact at the moment until she leaned a little closer and started to speak to him.

"I like to say that this rarely happens, but that would be a lie. It happens a lot in fact, even more so with Leevi." Seiji admitted letting out a sigh, watching as his drink was placed in front of him. Woo two olives! He picked up the stick and ate one of the olives, looking over to her. "He has done it to men too. I kind of have to have a snake on me at all time...it’s a..." Seiji had to think because he could not come out and say it was a mutation sort of thing. "It’s an attachment issue for the snakes." Seiji said followed by clearing his throat. "So Sorcha, do you often uh...wear such things when you go out and about. Don’t feel odd with the whole eyes on you thing?" Seiji asked since his eyes were clearly on her and he was pretty sure other people were looking. How could you not look at an attractive woman showing show much but also being a tease in a way?

[Sorcha Adams]

Sorcha slid the offered bills toward herself without really paying any attention to how much they were. She was more interested in the person passing the money at the moment. He seemed to have calmed down at least enough to stop trying to bury his face in the bar's counter top. The redness in his cheeks seemed to have faded as well. At least she hadn't incapacitated him too badly, though she had to smirk at the thought of that possibility.

"I didn't know snakes could have separation anxiety," she replied, grinning at the mental image of the young man having to retrieve his adventurous pet from any number of pairs of pants and shirts. She knew that pets like dogs and cats could get antsy if their owner was away for too long, but she hadn't ever thought that reptiles could exhibit the same symptoms. They always seemed like the cold, detached sort of companion type. The whole sit in a tank or occasionally on a shoulder kind of animal. It was certainly interesting to learn otherwise.

She glanced down at her outfit briefly as the young man questioned her choice of dress. He hadn't said anything was wrong with it, but most people that asked that sort of question seemed to disapprove of women showing off a lot of skin. She didn't exactly get that vibe from him, though. He seemed to be less condescending and more curious. "People staring doesn't bother me the least bit. If they can't keep their eyes in their heads it's their problem, not mine," she said, giving a shrug and taking a sip of her drink. "This kind of outfit is pretty common for me. I don't like wearing too many layers. Hell, I'd walk around naked if I thought I could get away with it but most people don't exactly approve of that kind of thing. My sense of modesty isn't as strong as most others'." Having a mutation that shredded her clothing whenever she shifted had gradually altered her views on such things. It was easier and less costly to stop caring so much about clothing and embrace an unconcerned attitude toward how much of her body was showing at any given time.

Moving to take another sip of her beer, she finally peered down at the bills she'd crinkled in her hand and just barely avoided spluttering the alcohol back up. She had been under the impression that he'd slid her a pair of fives, maybe a couple tens. Definitely not more than a pair of twenties. But somehow she'd found herself staring at two hundred dollar bills in her hand. "You know you just gave me two hundred dollars right?" she asked, looking up from her hand to stare at the young man with a bewildered expression on her face. "I can't take this. It's two hundred dollars. That's way too much to be giving me for a couple of drinks." She shook her head and held the money out to him. This guy had to be out of his damn mind.

[Seiji Lockard]

"These ones do." Seiji said in a tone that he was really slightly fed up with his clingy snakes. He loved them all yes, but sometimes a man wanted his body to himself. Not to have a snake slithering all around. He still had to fight every so often to make sure his snakes didn’t go into his bed or into the bathroom. He wanted that much privacy at least. Even if they knew a lot about him, he was still a male, a human male at that and he had his pride. Other snakes might not have been the case when it came to other people. However with the small scent that Seiji gave off pretty much all snakes liked him and wanted to be close to him. There was that negative effect when it would go out of control that it could cause them to really love him or really want to kill him, but that didn’t happen often. Still the whole smelling nice to snakes normally was also nice when he would smell pleasant to a person, but that had to be close to him or have a good sense of smell to pick it up.

Seiji had no problem with how she was dressing, to each their own in that area. If she had the stones to dress like that and not care what people thought then he thought it was pretty cool. Admirable in fact. He wished he could dress in pretty much anything that he wanted. Well he did, but he still dressed pretty much covered since the whole a snake hiding on her person thing. So really what he wished was that he did not have to have the snakes hide on him, that people did not fear snakes. Fear came from misunderstanding, but Seiji could not just will everyone’s fears away about them. Heck he didn’t like spiders at all, that could even been counted as his very own fear. "Well I think it looks good on you. Very uh...firm fitting and makes the eyes wander..." Seiji blushed a little and went to eat the other olive that was still sitting in his drink. See he had no problem talking to anyone when they were covered by Sorcha had things out there just asking to be seen and his eyes were having a hard time, as she said 'staying in his head.

"You have a very nice body so I'm sure not too many people are complaining. No one here, that is for sure." Seiji said with a slight nervous chuckle. Leevi for sure is not. The snake peeked out a little from under Seiji's coat, just taking a look at Sorcha before going back into his hiding. He took a deep breath and tried to keep his mind in his head and not think with anything else. He had no game after all, no flirt skills, and for sure knew better then to hit on someone that was outright attractive. He should peruse the Asexual life, that would work best for him after all, seeing as he was going to be 'Snake Guy' forever. He drank his martini then and looked over to Sorcha when she said he had given her two hundred dollars. "I know, I can count." Seiji said simply, not seeing what the problem was with the amount of money he had given her, but then she explained. He shook his head no and gave something of a friendly chuckle.

"Please take it. It to pay you back for more than just the drinks. You didn’t kill Leevi, didn’t slap me, and you still remained around me even after finding out that I have a snake hidden on my person." Seiji said as he started to count his points out on his fingers, ready to counter what she said. "Plus...I know something a bit on the personal side about you, so please..." Seiji said as he started to blush a little quickly downing the rest of his drink and patting his chest.

[Sorcha Adams]

Sorcha still didn't quite see how not killing the guy's snake or storming off after the incident warranted giving her so much money, but the young man didn't seem concerned about it at all. Hesitantly she lowered her outstretched hand, looking doubtfully at the bills again. It still seemed like a lot of money to just be tossing at a stranger like that, but somehow she doubted that he'd let her give it back to him. Deciding not to pursue an argument she slipped the bills into the tight front pocket of her shorts. She would leave them there for the remainder of the night just in case he changed his mind. If not, she'd stick them in the money jar she kept in her dorm for a rainy day.

"Well," she started, deciding to shift the conversation away from the unusual amount of money she'd just obtained, "a club is usually the right kind of place to dress the way I do. I have to be slightly more conservative up at the school where I work. People don't tend to like someone showing their bodies off around underage kids. Not to mention all the hormonal teenagers. They can be an issue in and of themselves. Not that I particularly mind, but I bend to the rules and expectations out of respect. That and I'd rather not lose my job for walking around in my birthday suit." She could get away with it in her dorm, but that was about it. The closest she could come to walking around in the buff on the rest of the campus was shifting into her feline form without any of her plus sized clothing selection on hand to cover her furry behind.

She had initially let the young man's last excuse for passing her the large bills slip by her, but as his reasoning sank in once the shock started to wear off it began to niggle at her. She didn't exactly understand what he could have meant by knowing anything personal about her. They'd only just met and they closest they'd gotten was when she'd handed the snake off to him.

"By the way, what did you mean when you said you knew something personal about me?" she asked, turning around to place her empty beer bottle on the counter and waving down the bartender again so she could get herself a rum and coke. She didn't remember ever seeing the young man before and in such a short conversation she doubted he could have picked up much about her. She had her sunglasses on still, so he couldn't have seen her eyes yet. She stirred the contents of her glass slowly when it got to her and regarded the young man curiously. She wondered if this was a kind of thing she should be concerned about.

[Seiji Lockard]

It was a very big deal to him. Her not killing Leevi or doing anything else he mentioned, since she would have been justified in doing everything he said. However she was calm about it all, not seeing it as a big deal, and even teased him a little. Alright, so she might not have been outright teasing him, but with what she was wearing and her previous snakes getting away comment, he was still very much feeling teased. It was not bad however, he was still having fun and after the couple of drink he had already had, he had a nice little buzz going so he would end up relaxing a little more. Not too much, even a drunk Seiji was still pretty much normal, however when he was drunk, his snakes had a little bit more sway in the things they were suggesting. Made him think about the whole story with Eve and the apple. Seiji was basically the Eve when he was drunk because his snakes would say he should do something and chances were that he might do it.

Seiji was looking at Sorcha as she spoke about not really being able to dress like she currently was at the place where she worked. The more she spoke about it he was easily able to narrow it down to that she worked with kids, so at a school. There were only the schools down here and then the one hidden up in the mountains for mutants. The school he had gone to when he came into his power, graduated from, and currently was working part time there. "That’s good that you sacrifice you desires for the good of the students. Get to keep your job and also reveals that you care for the students." Seiji said, stating pretty much how he saw it, and he liked Sorcha for that. She wanted to dress down and be comfy, but for the sake of her job the hormonal kids she worked around she would deal with it. "I figure you would get hit on a lot more if you walked around in your birthday suit around hormonal students." Seiji said implying that he figured she had already been hit one. Since he knew that even he had that adult crush when he was in school. So he figured she had to have a few, especially with a killed body like hers, covered up or not.

"Uh..." Seiji swallowed hard, having figured he slipped that last part in there well enough that she would not have brought it up. How did you even tell someone what you knew about them when you just met them? Sure he could lie, but if he did that he risk being wrong with what he said. Then again if he was smooth he could turn it into a flirty line, but he didn’t have nowhere near the gull for such a thing. He ordered himself a beet this round, knowing the hangover was going to be bad come morning. "I know you’re..." Seiji could not outright say it; he was already blushing as he eagerly waited for his beer. He just gestured to her upper chest area, but kept his hand still a good distance away so it did not look like he was trying to get a feel in or anything. "I know about that region of your body. I'm so very sorry. I don’t mean to know, I just do." Seiji apologized speaking fast again and leaning heavily on the bar. Man, this is not my night. I'm going to jail for sure.

[Sorcha Adams]

"Probably. There's kids that are bold enough to hit on someone no matter what they're wearing, but they don't need the added encouragement. There's no need to distress anyone that would be uncomfortable around a naked body, either," she replied. Working at night meant there were fewer instances of students waltzing up to her and trying some tired, corny pickup line to see what would happen, but it didn't stop the instances completely. Just roaming around campus during the day before she settled down for the afternoon could be enough to encourage someone. Not that it particularly bothered her. She simply responded accordingly and appropriately and went about her business. Unless the student wasn't underage, then sometime she had a little fun with them. Drop a teasing line and wander off to leave them confused or something. Just harmless fun.

She arched a brow and took a sip of her new drink as she watched the young man fumble for an explanation of his previous statement. She watched him gesture at her, though she didn't recoil from the minor flailing or take any offense to the movement. She was trying very hard not to grin at the whole scene he was making. The guy was clearly distressed and his face was starting to get red all over again. This was far more entertaining than concerning.

"So you know about my chest, is that what you're saying?" she replied, not entirely sure how that was anything particularly personal for him to have discovered. Her choice in clothing didn't exactly leave a whole lot to the imagination. She didn't really see why he was getting so flustered about it. She'd chosen her outfit specifically to draw attention to herself, after all. "I don't see how that's something to be so upset out. It's just a chest. You've seen one you've pretty much seen 'em all. I mean, it's not like you can't tell what I've got under my shirt or anything." She quickly decided that this wasn't the sort of thing to be concerned about. Confused about maybe, but not concerned.

[Seiji Lockard]

Seiji chuckled a little, trying to picture student coming up to her and being so bold as to hit on her. He had never been so bold to hit on anyone, no he admired and crushed on from afar and that was pretty much it. When he was really young he would say someone was pretty or cute, but that was pretty much it. Never anything along the lines of sexy and 'he babe want to come back to my place?' Nope, nothing like that ever. He was never that bold or confident in his 'wooing' skills and he was pretty sure that was how it was going to remain. "Makes sense. No point in encouraging their efforts by giving them eye candy right? Eye candy okay to use?" Seiji asked not wanting to overstep any sensitive areas. Really he was just worried about getting slapped or making Sorcha uncomfortable to the point that she would leave. He didn’t want her to leave.

Not because of that. Seiji scolded Leevi who had suggested something along the lines of wanting to get to know her on an intimate level. No, Seiji wanted to get to know people on an intellectual level. One where the person was more important then things they could offer him or anything like that. His beer arrived and he was quick to pick it up and consume it, practically chugging it. Good thing he was used to chugging drinks since he was a college students and he did go to some parties, just not many because the whole snakes thing. If he had Sephire on him then he was pretty much safe. Ghost would work too if Ghost was not so big, but Akiko and Leevi were too sneaky and peeked out too often. He gave several quick nods to her question about knowing about her chest. How could she say it so casual like and not feel offended at all. Sure she had a point that she had dressed like this for a reason, but he thought that the major part was for her to be comfortable since she liked not wearing that many layers and all.

"I know that you are soft, size, and well you know." Seiji said really fast, after getting half of his beer down, holding back a burp because that would be rude of him. She was not upset at all, she was so calm, and it was a breath of fresh air. Then again a lot of females he had met seemed to be pretty calm and laid back. Sorcha being the second one who was confident in their looks and didn’t really care what others had to say. However her last comment made him flush. He had never seen a chest. Not a females now. No way could he tell her that he was a twenty-four year old virgin. Embarrassing yes? He gave a nervous chuckle and nodded a little, trying to go with a lie of sorts, but it was pretty clear that he was not doing a good job at it. With other things he could lie, but not something like this oddly enough. "Yeah, seen one seen them all. Even if everyone is different. The whole one being larger than the other defers between each person, along with size and...ah never mind." Seiji stopped himself before he went on a boob fact rant.

[Sorcha Adams]

Oh, he was fun. Every question or opinion she posed to him seemed to make him more flustered than the last and the speed at which he downed most of his beer bordered on impressive. This sort of thing would quickly turn into a game if Sorcha didn't behave herself. It was just too much fun seeing how far she could push someone every now and again and the way he kept getting all hot and bothered was kind of cute.

"Softness and size, huh? You seem to pick up a whole lot of information just from chatting with someone," she replied teasingly, again not really concerned with this new bit of information. Anyone could guess at how soft someone's skin was by looking at it and general bust size in women could be just as easily estimated at a glance. And yet he was still so embarrassed about it all. She assumed this was not a normal kind of conversation for him to be having. She was completely comfortable talking about her anatomy, whereas Seiji seemed to have some difficulty with it.

And then before she knew it he was launching into another tangent this time about breasts, though this one was also short lived as he seemed to catch himself in the act and stop abruptly to return to his drink. She just had to smirk. It was too adorable how much the conversation affected him and in such a juvenile way. Maybe he wasn't quite as old as he looked. Or else he just had a vastly different comfort level than she did, which wasn't difficult to achieve.

Deciding that she might as well give him an excuse to take his mind off of her chest she pushed her sunglasses up to the top of her head to expose her eyes before retrieving the lime slice stuck on the edge of her glass and taking a bite of it, relishing the citrus tang. She was starting to get a slight, pleasant buzz going now that nearly half of her mixed drink was gone and she was contemplating downing the rest of it or leaving in the counter and returning for something different.

"Well since you know so much about my chest already I don't think it would be too forward to propose you see exactly how soft this eye candy's skin is out on the dance floor, would it?" she said, arching a brow and giving a devilish grin. If he was this uncertain just chatting she could only imagine what he might be like on a dance floor where personal space was practically non-existent.