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000 [Action] 4th Walled

[The mass influx of wingless people doesn't throw Cliff off his game. After the last few weeks of cleaning up messes and dealing with the natural fallout of the Malnosso's influences within the village, the flood of new faces is somewhat relaxing for a laid back guy.

He set's his sights primarily on helping out in the Welcome Center for the weekend, planning on spending his time pestering his friends while he was on the lookout for familir faces that he hadn't seen for a while. When he's not there he spends his time hanging out in the Battle Dome or Good Spirits in the evenings before returning to his apartment in the Ground Building at night.

All in all, it's a pretty normal day.]

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[Whatever Cliff might be doing in there, he might want to watch out for the basketball that's currently flying towards his head. Or the kid currently chasing after said ball...]

Wait! Come back!

[A quick side step and the bouncing basketball was dodged and caught, no problem.

Cliff grinned when he saw the kid. There were too many cases of people with similar faces and voices at the moment, but there was only one greenhead he knew who would be chaing a basketball.]

Hey, Florian! [He said, balancing the orange ball on a hand.] What are you doing here?!

[Oh was that--it was!

He grinned right back as he came to a stop in front of Cliff, bouncing up and down with unspent energy.]

Hi Cliff! I came back here somehow, so I was gonna go visit everybody but then I saw this ball and I thought I'd play a little bit before looking for people and then I found you so it worked!!

Yea-- looks like it did!

[If the plan was to have fun and coincidentally run into friends while doing that, then it couldn't have worked out better. Considering that Florian was Florian, that was the only plan that mattered anyway.]

So tell me, kid. [He tossed the ball between both of his hands as he spoke, before passing it to his first and most lively student with a gentle bounce.] How well can ya play?

[The question, surprisingly(?), makes him pause for a moment. Play what? Um, wait, he's pretty sure he knows this......the vague memory pops up of somebody telling him this particular ball was for a game called basketball, but other than that it's all a blank.

Darn.]

....I'm good at playing catch!

[Cliff laughed at that. Maybe the memories just weren't coming back that quickly for the young man.]

Catch is a good place to start. What do you say about learning how to play another game with this kinda ball?

[Oh are we gonna learn basketball again are we are we--he nods enthusiastically.]

Okay! What game are we playing?

It's called basketball. [He grinned.] A friend of mine's really good at it, but I know enough to help you learn a little bit about it.

[...He knew it! He totally called it! But that's okay because he really doesn't remember a thing about how the game goes. Smiling!] Basketball, okay! I'm gonna be an expert at basketing balls!

Yeah, you are! And, if you get really good, you might get to be a pro one day!

[He wasn't sure how basketball and other sports worked in Florian's world...but, no matter. The kid was eager to learn something new, and that was awesome.]

I'll be the best pro there is! Even better than your friend! Can your friend play with us too? Maybe we can all play together!

[Whoever the friend is...but saying this sure is getting him excited, either way. Look at him bounce!]

[Cliff laughed. Man, did he miss this kid...]

Sure, we can do that. You've just gotta remember though that a pro basketball player is only as good as the rest of their team is. It's not a sport you can do all alone, like swimming is.

[He has to think about that for a second.]

...So it's a game where you work together? I like working together! But how do we win? [There's only two of them there today...!]

[Don't worry, kid. It'll all make sense.]

Normally, you've got two teams playing against eachother. The team that earns the most points wins the game. But, we don't need to worry 'bout that right now. You're just gonna learn how to bounce and throw the ball today.

Ohh, okay. So we practice first and then do teams. [Oh but he understands this practice part!] I know how to do that! I'm especially good at bouncing.

[Though dribbling is probably another thing entirely.]

Aah-- but can you do it like this?

[He demonstrated, deftly tossing the ball toward the ground and intercepting on the rebound, quickly bouncing the ball between the hard floor and his open hand-- dribbling the ball, just for Florian to watch.]

[He watched the demonstration quietly, mouth just slightly open, very obviously totally new to this whole idea.

And then:]

.......I can do it that way too!

[He smiled.]

You can? Show me.

[He gently tossed the ball too the kid, inviting him to go ahead and try it.]

[He caught the ball easily enough - he's gotten pretty good at that.

The dribbling, on the other hand...probably isn't going so well, considering he just accidentally bounced the ball waaaaayyyy off over there.]

Ah--oops.

[Clearly, this was gonna take a little time.]

Don't sweat it, kid. Nobody gets it on their first try.

[He retrieved the ball and bounced it back over.]

You've just gotta go a little easy on it, is all.

Easy...like this?

[Bouncing it...reeaaallly slowly......or as slowly as you can bounce a ball, anyway.]

Close! Now you've just gotta make it a little faster without doing it too hard. Think you can do it?

I can do it! It's not hard.

[He says, but it's hard to keep himself from trying to go too fast, and it doesn't take too long before the ball slips out of his fingers again.]

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000 [Action] 4th Walled

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