#(tonitoni wants to drink his fox soooo bad. or act like she wants to at least)

[abyssmalice]

(endless possibilities, and you still draw the short straw) - continued! / @poswiecenia

Bait taken.

Tonia rises back onto her feet, turning to the new face - and a new face they are, in spite of how familiar it looks. Oddly, and irritatingly so. Her expression, which had been carefully set into childish vanity, unwillingly flattens into a blank frown on seeing the young man.

He reminds me of... him... and Teucer? No, that can't be right— Her eyebrows knit together for a moment, thinking. Here appears some random guy with a weird fox, with those features, with her mask...

Were she a normal person, or even one of her very boring coworkers, this would be a somewhat strange and startling situation, perhaps. Unfortunately, Tonia is a little more aware about esoteric things than she wants to be - and the knowledge of divergent leaves and crossing branches on cosmic trees is one of them. Poor her. That this information is now relevant and coming into use.

Maybe. She might just be overworked and hit her head on a rock while taking a nature hike, and this is a weird dream she's having while unconscious. Hell knows.

Either way, she should at least do some fact-checking before she proceeds too far on any assumptions. If only so that the Tsaritsa doesn't complain at her about not doing her due diligence. (The less pointless nagging from that old hag, the better!)

"My mask? I got it from the garbage dump." The 'dump' in question being the Fatui. Tonia folds her arms, quickly slotting away any thoughtful observation in favor of her preferred face - that of a blunt, naive brat. She makes a small show of squinting at the concerningly-familiar-but-not man, lips pursed a little too comically, before raising an eyebrow. "Hey, you have the same mask too. Did you get yours from the same dump as me then? Are you one of the garbage pickup men?"

A pause. She looks at the hydro fox again, pouting now. "I hope not. Then that means your water fox is also stinky and un-drinkable."