She didn't even need to say the words.
By the time Rita returned to the food truck, having just acquired the fourth piece of her game console, and heard little gingerbread ask through private chat if it could take the bumper car for a spin—mentioning it was a good friend of B8's—
"Of course," Rita replied without hesitation.
She took the two supersized hand-rolled sushi sets from B8017913 and sent a private message,
"This car belongs to you too. As long as it's not in use by one of us, you can take whoever you want for a ride. Just check with Nivalis on the timing."
When B8017913 drove off with D11329, it couldn't help but share what Rita had said.
It didn't quite know how to explain why it did that—maybe it was showing off?
A childish impulse perhaps. But by the time it understood its own motivations, it was already bragging.
D11329: "I thought once you contract with a player, everything you gain belongs to them?"
