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Who: Kaveh and YOU
Status: Open
Where: Surasthana Cafe on Eltrut!
What: The grand opening of a book cafe.
Warnings: God I hope not.

[Kaveh hasn't talked much about what he's been working on for a few months now, because he wanted this moment to be a surprise (and because he didn't want to be scolded for overwork). It has finally paid off, now, with the grand opening of the Surasthana Cafe, just in time for the deep end of the fall season. The cafe is cozily furnished and warm, the smell of lovingly brewed coffee floats through the air, and soft music plays from Mehrak.

Kaveh isn't expecting a huge rush on any given day--this was done for his own sake more than anything, but now on weekday afternoons, the little book cafe can be found and people can stay a spell, enjoying expertly made coffee drinks and some light reading in a ridiculous plant paradise.

If you have any requests for new kinds of books, or wish to purchase various accessories, stop by the front counter! The owner is happy to accommodate you, after all.

ooc: you may also treat this post as a mingle and toplevel accordingly, just mark if you are doing so! Otherwise, Kaveh will be coming for you!]

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[Kaveh should know by now that such threats are hardly effective on Alhaitham, especially when he knows that Kaveh wants and likes this as much as he does, if not more. It's always a 50/50 chance on who is the needier one between them at any given moment.]

Quoting my own words against me isn't as effective of a strategy as you think it is. [He murmurs, voice low and amused as he shifts, ducking his head to the side to start nuzzling at his senior's jaw.] Besides, a half hour difference isn't that much of a deviation.

[It's also a 50/50 chance on if Alhaitham is really intent on getting some action here, or simply just doing it as a tease.]

And if you'd exercise your patience whatsoever, we could do much better than thirty minutes. Come on, you brat, behave.

[Not that Kaveh can even manage to sound mad, laughter on his lips. Archons, he loves a truly ridiculous man.]

[It's hard to pay attention to anything else that Kaveh says when he laughs like that, so bright and open and free. It's a sound Alhaitham didn't think he would have heard, not so long ago, nor did he imagine himself to fall so deeply in love with it. It's better than any song or melody that he can hear through his earpieces; indeed, Kaveh's laugh is perhaps one of the most wonderful things he can be blessed with, and he'll do anything to keep hearing it for the rest of his life.]

Hmm... [He makes another show of thinking about it yet again, hands gliding up and down his sides one more time before coming to a stop to rest at his hips.] I suppose I can acquiesce, once my beloved senior asks me nicely.

[What Alhaitham means by 'nice' here is entirely up to the other's interpretation.]

Nicely, is it?

[Kaveh snorts, but takes Alhaitham's face in his hands, lifting it up out of his neck to kiss him, nipping just a bit at his lips in a promise of what awaits him if he behaves himself now.]

Would you please behave so we can go get dinner, Alhaitham?

[And Alhaitham, with no ounce of embarrassment or shame, is more than happy to take the kiss as its given, and it goes without saying that he returns it in kind too, wordlessly promising Kaveh back in turn what he will get later.]

I guess, since you asked very nicely. [He says, completely indulgent, giving Kaveh's hips one last squeeze before he lets go so that his senior is finally free to slide off his lap.]

You are so spoiled.

[Kaveh does ruffle the man's hair as he stands up, unable to resist that last bit of teasing, but they have a meal to get to before Alhaitham decides he's feeling particularly capricious, so Kaveh won't push it. Too much.]

Come now, your royal highness, I'm sure you really are getting hungry now.

[Alhaitham simply hums, never confirming nor denying, though regardless of what the truth is it doesn't change the fact that Kaveh is still letting it happen anyway.

..and unsurprisingly it takes a moment for Alhaitham to stand, and then another one for the pins and needles on his legs to dissipate, because Kaveh was on his lap for quite a while and now that he's no longer distracted, his legs are truly feeling the full brunt of having a fully grown man seated on him.]

Have you decided what to eat? [He asks as he holds onto Kaveh after standing up, waiting for his legs to be useable again. No regrets, of course, but it still doesn't change the fact that having his senior on his lap is something that no amount of leg strength can fully work off so easily.]

There's somewhere on the way home that's started making curry, if you don't feel like waiting for me to cook. Or we have enough stuff for biryani at home. Make your choice.

[Kaveh is willing to wait for Alhaitham to have feeling in his legs again, but he does still offer a hand up. He always feels a little bad about it...pins and needles is never comfortable, after all.]

[Alhaitham is willing to suffer through all the pins and needles if that means he can keep having Kaveh in his lap.]

Mmn... biryani. [He decides after a pause. Alhaitham isn't exactly in the mood for being too adventurous today; he knows how Kaveh's food tastes and wants that reliability right now.] We can try the curry another day.

Alright, then. Biryani it is. [Kaveh had suspected as much, but he knows how ornery this man gets if he doesn't get to make decisions, and this one is truly easy enough to give, so why not? Besides, biryani does sound good...It'd go well with some of the wine they have but convincing Alhaitham to let them open a bottle might be tricky. Hmmmm.]

Shadowlily, it's time to go!

[He calls out after a moment, and receives a sleepy 'mrrp?' in response as the dark-colored puddle that is their cat looks up. Truly, she really does take after Alhaitham.]

[There are a few days here and there where Alhaitham is fine with letting Kaveh decide their food for them, but he always appreciate being asked nonetheless. And now that their plans have been decided he can very much feel his stomach catching up to the news now, making a quiet rumble to indicate its readiness to eat sooner rather than later.

With the pins and needles in his legs mostly having subsided its truly time for them to leave now, and Kaveh calls out for the cat, who looks up from where she'd been stretched out on the floor close by. It only takes a moment after for her to get with the program, and then she's up from the floor and trotting over to them, winding around their legs and meowing out her own demands for dinner, which earns a snort from Alhaitham.]

None of the cats back in Sumeru would approve of you at this rate. [The cats back home all hunt for their own food!! They certainly do not get fed and spoiled as badly as this one here.]

Says the man responsible for the strays all hanging around our house?

[Kaveh won't deny he feeds the cats when he sees them, and made little shelters for them from Sumeru's storms, but he knows that the cats are hanging around because of another source of food.

A tall, green-eyed source of food who every single cat in the city seems to adore.]

Come on, come on, I'll feed you both, don't fuss.

I don't go out of my way to get anything extra for them, if that's what you're implying.

[Look sometimes he just has some scraps that would go to waste otherwise! It's all perfectly fine and reasonable okay, nothing like what Kaveh is thinking at all.

But that aside, food does sound more and more of a better idea now, and his legs are pretty much okay now so Alhaitham will move his hand to grab Kaveh's own, giving it a squeeze as he leads them to the door. Time to go back home and for Kaveh to make that biryani that he just promised.]

Of course you don't, Haitham. Of course you don't.

[He doesn't believe that for a second, but it's not worth arguing about. Not when they can walk home, hand in hand, with only a small 'oof' from Kaveh as Shadowlily hops up to ride on his shoulder rather than pad along behind them.

This isn't the life he imagined for himself, and all things being equal, Kaveh wants to build a life home, in Sumeru--but in the meanwhile, all this? Isn't so terrible at all.]