Time to Unwind (closed)

[verymuchalive]

Characters: Aradia Megido (verymuchalive) and Sollux Captor (thekidsare0kay)
Setting: Floor 25 (the meadow)
Format: Starts in prose, feel free to change to action spam
Summary: After a fraught few weeks, these matesprits need some time to just be together and relax.
Warnings: Nothing major. Potentially an overload of cute.

It had been a crazy couple of weeks, even by Aradia's standards. Between almost getting culled by Dualscar and then the constant assault by the monsters, it seemed the tower was very much intent on testing her determination to remain alive. As a result, for all she and Sollux had immediately agreed to become matesprits when she arrived, they had barely had much time to just be together without worrying that one or other of them were about to die. Not to say that fighting side by side with him again hadn't been fun, but it didn't really constitute quality time.

As it turned out, the tower had made her decision to instigate this date all the easier for the new, meadow-like floor it had revealled at the new top of the tower. She'd squirrelled away some food from the canteen, having read up on human dates and decided that this picnicing thing seemed like fun. Now, as she led Sollux up to the appropriate floor, she could barely contain her giddy joy.

"This is going to be fun!"

Comments

[verymuchalive]

"You're not being a wiggler. You're being a considerate matesprit. Frankly I'd be a little more worried if you didn't care."

She smiles, stealing another quick kiss before pulling back a little.

"Besides. The food part's secondary in this anyway."

[thekidsare0kay]

"Of courthe I care," he said, huffing. Then he grinned sheepishly and reached for a container. "But you took the time to bring uth the food and thtuff, tho we should probably...do thomething...about that."

[verymuchalive]

Aradia simply grinned at his huff - of course she knew that but it didn't hurt to remind him - before reaching for a container herself.

"Well yes. I just meant...well, we don't have to rush. I mean, unless you had other things you needed to do, we can take our time."

[thekidsare0kay]

"I don't have anything to do," Sollux assured her. "Definitely nothing more important than thith. But I'm hungry. And thinking about food ith way more fun than thinking about athhhole highbloodth."

[verymuchalive]

"That I can definitely agree with."

Aradia opened a few more containers, all filled with whatever she could get from the cafeteria. It was an odd mix and probably not what one would expect of a typical picnic but then it wasn't as though the tower gave them a huge amount of choice.

"I guess this is where we just help ourselves."

[thekidsare0kay]

"Well, no one'th going to therve uth." He grinned, putting the earlier conversation aside as he began putting different foods on plates. "Tho other than highblood athhholeth, how hath life been?"

[verymuchalive]

Aradia grabs some food for herself, taking a little of everything. "Oh, pretty good. Monsters and highbloods aside, it's a lot nicer here than it was in the Veil."

She pauses a moment, digging out the juices she picked up before asking, "How about you?"

[thekidsare0kay]

"No complaintth, I guethh." He chews for a moment, thoughtfully. "Though I wish we had internet. I get bored, thometimeth."

[verymuchalive]

She nods. "I guess there's not a lot to do here once everywhere's been explored. Though maybe that just means I'll have to bring you with me more often when I do my own exploring."

[thekidsare0kay]

"That'd be okay," he says, smiling faintly. "Are there any ruinth to ekthplore?"

[verymuchalive]

She shakes her head. "At least, not that I've found. If there are any, they're incredibly well-hidden. I guess maybe the tower just doesn't have a use for them."

[thekidsare0kay]

"Maybe thome will come later, and then you can ekthplore them." He poked her in the side. "And bug me until I come help you."