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There's basically two chairs in the entire residence--at the eating area. One is really small, and the other really big. Rai let Dion use the big one if he wanted, which also means there's a possibly that a 6' 3'' guy squeezes himself into a tiny chair for mealtime, which in turn is hilarious to the narrator for some reason. Anyways, yep, there are chairs.
Unfortunately, the eating area is quite close to the kitchen/cooking area, which gives a full view of what kind of mess is going on over there. It looks like meringue exploded.
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Instead of choosing a chair like he meant to at first, Dion found himself staring at the kitchen. He even stepped towards it to look inside.
What in the world...?
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It looks kind of like the kitchen is in the middle of a shave--specifically the part of the process where shaving cream is involved.
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Dion was just astonished by the kitchen's state. So much, that he began to go inside a bit. It's just, well, he couldn't stop staring.
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He can see a Rai-sized tunnel near the middle (leaning towards the right) there. Wow. Nothing is visible.
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He poked the creamy thing. What a disaster, really.
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"Ah, so you've found the mess of the day," Rai remarks from somewhere behind him. "Welcome back to the kitchen. Looking for something?"
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"...what happened there?"
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"Oh, so you're looking for a report?" Rai stands up like he's at attention, even though Dion can't actually see him right now. Not because he's invisible, but because he's standing behind the other, of course. "Well. I was trying to make something. I should have done a chemical test on one of the ingredients. My bad."
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"But ingredients don't just do that," Dion muttered. He turned back to look at Rai.
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"Which is why I should've done a chemical test," Rai clarifies with a shrug. "I'll take care of that later. Haircut first."
He's holding a pretty square-shaped sheet and a few types of scissors that he's never shown before, in addition to a translucent bag that presumably holds materials he doesn't think he will need.
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"That works for me. So I have to get a chair first. Yeah..."
The next thing Dion did was stare at the scissors for a couple seconds before going over to the larger chair. He sat there, making sure to be straight and with his hands in his lap.
"I'm ready, I guess."
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"Sorry. Could you stand up for a bit? I need to put this under the chair first." Rai shakes said sheet as an indicator of what he's speaking of.
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Dion nodded promptly. He stood up to let just enough space for Rai to place the sheet.
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Rai slides the sheet under, somehow keeping it straight the entire time.
"Okay," he cues.
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Immediately, Dion plopped back down onto the chair, resuming his previous posture.
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"Alright, I'll go get the unofficial barber cape. Sit tight for a bit."
Rai leaves again, and the narrator decides (for once) to make a POV longer to spare the other narrator from having to respond to a POV that has almost nothing to respond to (for once). He returns with the drape, handing it to Dion and then going around the table to pick up all the materials he set on the only other chair.
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Dion looked the cape over once more, checking how to put it on. He opened the buttons carefully.
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Well, at least it's not difficult to put on.
"How is it?" Rai asks.
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"Looks fine," Dion replied absentmindedly while slipping the cape on.
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"Ah, good to hear." Rai tries the scissors at empty air while facing away from Dion for safety reasons, cutting out slits of sound. Snip-snip. Snip. Snip.
"Alright, let's begin," he goes passively, sauntering over to stand relatively behind the other. "You in a comfortable position, Dion?"
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"Yeah. Go on."
Dion straightened in his seat. He tensed up so much that he seemed more stiff than comfortable.
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"Doesn't look like it. Are you sure?" Rai asks again. "Your back looks more like a plank than the chair. The chair's made of wood, too, which makes it ironic."
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"Y- well, no," he admitted.
Dion made himself more comfortable by allowing his back to slump a bit. The asymmetrical slope of his shoulders became visible.
"Better now? Don't you need me to be more rigid so you can cut well?"
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"Hm, well, I didn't quite say for you to not sit straight. I wanted you to sit in a more comfortable position," Rai specifies with a slight grin. "Relaxed and straight is the way to go. My bad for not specifying." He adds, "I had Wiley and six different search engines confirm this for me too, but like you're doing right now, don't cross your legs."
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A soft humming sound was the answer. Dion did as instructed, and brushed all his hair so it would be on his back instead of falling around his shoulders.
"Alright, so, what about now?"
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Snip-snip. Rai's either getting warmed up or is anxious to some level. "Looks cool to me," he states nonchalantly. "Thanks. Now I pray to the hairstyle gods, goddesses, and deities..." Being as close to atheist as the universe of GGaD allows, he chuckles at his own joke and starts the haircutting process.
"Sorry for not having magazines or books, by the way," he says somewhere along the way, presumably once he feels confident enough to talk. It doesn't take long, but Rai does haircuts like he drives--slow, steady, and careful as heck. "I remember reading them is bad for posture and might result in a jagged cut, though, so even if I had any with me right now, I wouldn't offer them."
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The thought of a hairstyle deity existing seemed silly to Dion, so he just rolled his eyes. He stayed in silence at first.
He's okay at keeping almost completely still, except for his fingers, since he was fidgeting a little.
"I can think if I want instead of reading, anyways," he told Rai. Then, "Don't touch my neck, okay? It's fine if you grab my hair, but only my hair."
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"Yeah, no worries, I remembered that 'bout you."
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He turned to look back. "I don't think I told you?"