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No pain, no gain sometimes - and no challenge would go without attempt in this house! Such was the reasoning behind Aether showing up in the afternoon with a box of Pocky, grin spreading from ear to ear before opening up both sides (to check for the biscuit side) and sliding out the aforementioned biscuit side directly into his mouth.

Go on then, Temantha, rise up to the challenge of the all box Pocky game if you so dare!

　　AS TEM WATCHES AETHER, she quirks a brow, arms folded beneath her chest to match the look of skepticism she has. She doesn't put it past him to enjoy these kinds of games, but she definitely hadn't expected him to look so excited about it. Plus, he's gotten to know her pretty wellーdoes he think she'd easily to a game like this? They're not even involved with each other.

　　She almost asks a question, but decides to just remain quiet and let him do what he's gonna do instead. And he's already being a little extra strange by inspecting the entire package. Has he never had these before? Is he not sure how to eat them...?

　　But then he lifts the package and lets the entirety of it fall into his mouth, a ridiculous bundle of pocky sticks now crammed together there. Tem stares at him for another moment as it all clicks, eyebrow raising even further, and then, she matches his earlier grin.

　　"Oh? Is that what we're doing?" If his goal is simply to weird her out, then he's going to get quite the shock when she steps up, arms still crossed, and leans herself forward to align herself with the pocky-protrusion. Opening her mouth as wide as she can, Tem catches as many of the sticks in her teeth as she can and then quickly chomps down on the bundle, pieces shifting and breaking, bits in between the two of them falling loose onto them and the ground.