closed ⚡🪶 and forevermore, i'll be chasing the storm we had.

[garudas]

Who: Benedikta Harman & Cidolfus Telamon.
Status: Closed.
Where: Cid's workshop, Avaleci.
What: Cid is sad about his daughter being gone and Benedikta is horrible at being comforting. Also adventures later!
Warnings: it's cid and benna 🙂 also ffxvi spoilers, if you can find them.

ice skating, hot springs ♨️
volcano, egis 🔥
the price of freedom 🧵

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[garudas]

[It would be near impossible to forget them. The hunts that would take them away for a few days at a time, the trips out to sea that would take them away even longer, the sparring matches and the lessons, and simply being in each other's company more.

Had they fallen in love then? Who is to say... She was still a bit young to understand what it all meant, but perhaps. It wouldn't be so farfetched to say that it was love all along, would it?

Wishful thinking from a young, naïve girl.

And she's about to make a comment on how their lives here are not so different from those days, when...]

Oh?

[She lifts a brow at him, grateful for the change.]

And what would you be doing if there weren't?

[ramuhs]

Having a different meal instead.

[garudas]

[There's a clatter of her fork as she taps on her plate, her eyes never leaving his, that sullenness gone and replaced with an equally mischievous grin.]

Well then, I suggest you eat up. Surely you'll have room for dessert?

[How quickly he turned the tables on that.]

[ramuhs]

[He just chuckles at that, waving his fork as his other hand remains with hers.]

Been waiting for it all morning.

[But he really will eat what's on his plate because jokes aside, last thing they need is another stomach disrupting them.]

[garudas]

Perhaps there will be something extra...

[She reaches down to dab her finger into the whipped cream on her pancakes...

...

...and just as she looks like she's going to press it between her lips, she reaches across the table and smears it on his lips instead.]

For being so patient.

[And back to her food she goes.]

[ramuhs]

[He was already watching her, but when she smears it on his lips instead, she's lucky she moved her finger away before he could catch it. Instead, he just slowly licks it over, letting his tongue run over his lips to taste that light sweetness.]

Starting to test that patience.

[But he will be good...]

[garudas]

[And he can be sure that she is watching him too, her eyes shamelessly locked on his lips as he licks the whipped cream away. She might have also unknowingly licked her own, too...]

Yes, well. I have to be sure that it isn't just some ploy.

[ramuhs]

As if I would ever joke about that.

[Come now.

...

But yeah he would just it for some kind of ploy to get her to do something, true.]

[garudas]

Not joke, Cidolfus.

[She takes a bite of her pancake, waves her fork at him again.]

Feigning your patience to get me to agree. Better that I test it to be sure that it's real and true.

[ramuhs]

And what would you do if it weren't?

[garudas]

Well, I suppose I'd have to find a fitting punishment instead...

[She taps his leg with her foot.]

What do you think?

[ramuhs]

Hmm... And what kind of punishment would that be?

[garudas]

[Her eyes narrow playfully at him.]

I was asking you what sort of punishment you think would fit such a crime?

[She takes a bigger bite of her food this time.]

[ramuhs]

Oh is that what you meant.

[He thought she meant the idea in general.]

You sure you should be asking the "criminal"? Might just consider something that would work in my favor.

[And now he needs his two hands again to cut his pancakes and sausage, so a slow removal as he leans back to start working on his plate again.]

[garudas]

[Honestly... anything that she could offer as "punishment" would work in his favour... Who are either of them kidding?]

Not so honourable a man as you'd like people to think, are you?

[Hah. If people knew how not-so-honourable their captain was when it came to certain matters...

She takes up the sausage and presses it slowly between her lips, nibbling on it and humming thoughtfully, her eyes flitting to his briefly.]

I might just have to go for seconds.

[ramuhs]

[Just a languid shrug.]

You say that as if I try.

[Please, they know he's more of a rogue.

And he sees what she's doing there.]

Enjoy them that much, hm?

[garudas]

[She pops the end of it out from between her lips and feigns a dramatic, disappointed sigh.]

... I've had better.

[ramuhs]

And how were those?

[garudas]

Mm. It was good enough that I'd definitely dip in for seconds.

[Are they still talking about food or...?]

Let's hope your patience holds out until I finish these ones, though.

[ramuhs]

[Definitely not talking about the food and he knows it. Otherwise he'd feign more offense because he made these just for her.

So there's a quirk of his lips.]

I think I can manage. Though now I wonder how your patience will hold—!?

[And just as he's about to tease her in return, there is SUDDENLY CAT in his lap, surprising him enough that when he suddenly sits back the table shakes a bit and he almost drops his fork.]

Ashtail? What are you doing you little grub—

[Just a very indignant meeeoooowr as she stands on his lap, looking up at him before gazing over the table at Benedikta.

And then promptly curling up right there on his lap. Purring.]

[garudas]

...

[Benedikta glares right back at the cat. Excuse you cat, they were having a moment? And now he gets to have the last word!? How very rude?]

Mind your manners.

[And she is just as indignant as she stabs her pancake with her fork—]

So much for dessert.

[—and shoves the bite into her mouth.]

[ramuhs]

[Well. It's clear who won that challenge—]

Jealous, are we?

[Smirk before he continues eating, his other hand automatically petting Ashtail which will only elicit even louder purrs.]

[garudas]

[No one won? Because the cat jumped up onto his lap and interrupted them??]

Yes. She is.

[Stupid purring cat. That is her spot.]

[ramuhs]

[And yet someone's patience is gone—

There's a small laugh at that.]

You're probably not wrong.

[And he's looking over at her with a very amused shine in his eyes, because he still finds them so similar.]

I'll be sure to make it up to you.

[garudas]

[She eyes them across the table as her fork pokes idly at what's left of her sausage.]

What are you looking at me like that for?