closed 🌠⚡ only you can be my light

[starshower]

Who: Eustace & Tifa Lockhart.
Status: Closed.
Where: Eltrut.
What: Eustace and Tifa paint the town ROYGBIV.
Warnings: idk more fluff??

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[starshower]

I haven't seen the Nibelheim mountains in years.

[She gestures to them, and while not very impressive, she can somehow recall every arch, every peak, and how it looked walking up towards Mount Nibel.]

It'll come to you once you start, I'm sure.

[flamekthunder]

Maybe...

[He's a little doubtful, but it's not as if he's trying to draw this with all the details it has.]

I'll start once the paint dries.

[starshower]

[Taking a step, and then another, towards him.]

And what are you gonna do in the meantime?

[flamekthunder]

Still have some parts of the sky I was going to do... Might also start working on the ocean since I can transition to the water pretty easily.

[starshower]

[She had been lifting her wet paint brush... but as soon as he answers, she lowers it and hides it behind her back.]

Oh, alright. Carry on, then.

[flamekthunder]

Mm...

[A low hum...

...

Before he just kind of glances at her.]

And you? What are you doing here?

[Don't think he couldn't hear or sense her movements.]

[starshower]

[Playing up the innocence now.]

Me? Nothing really, just coming over to see if there was anything I could help with.

[How could he suspect little old her??? Look at her smile.]

[flamekthunder]

[He knows so well.

And he's just going to.

Quickly raise his brush to swipe her nose with the white he still had in his hand.]

[starshower]

[She does flinch a little when he swipes her nose with his brush, a small squeak leaving her before she takes a wide step back, holding up her own dripping brush to defend herself.]

What was that for!?

[flamekthunder]

For whatever you were planning with that.

[And he's just going to wave his brush at the one she's holding—and not quite realizing how the paint is going to splatter her a bit. Not a lot, just a few drops, but it may get on her cheek and on the apron a little.]

[starshower]

[This time she does flinch against the splatter of paint, wiping her cheek with the back of her hand and smearing the paint some more.]

Well, I was going to offer my help, or ask if you wanted to help with mine, but now...?

[After a moment or two, she reaches up and leaves a giant splat of paint on his front and runs away—]

[flamekthunder]

Oy—! You—

[AHA HE KNEW IT!! And he's going to try and chase her, his arm reaching out to swipe at her back!!]

[starshower]

Eustace—!

[She shrieks with laughter as she tries to run, but he manages to leave a long strip of paint down her back, some of it getting into her hair. Not that she minds because she definitely started it, but with nowhere for her to run...]

Alright, you got me. Truce?

[She raises her hands in surrender.]

[flamekthunder]

[He just snorts.]

Giving up so soon?

[Which is a no as he just takes the opportunity to flick more paint at her.]

[starshower]

[She shields herself, albeit poorly, the paint getting all across her front anyway, and it even splatters a bit on the wall beside her.]

I never said I was giving up! I am proposing a truce. A deal, not a surrender.

[flamekthunder]

And what are the terms?

[starshower]

[Well dang it, she really hadn't thought this far.]

There are none? It was an eye for an eye.

[flamekthunder]

Sounds like a surrender to me.

[Just going to step in closer.]

[starshower]

[She watches him approach carefully, like a little mouse trapped and looking for an opening to escape.]

And how is that a surrender? I was only being fair. I got you, and you got me back, yeah?

[flamekthunder]

How do I know you aren't going to try and get revenge the moment my back is turned?

[starshower]

You'll just have to trust me.

[And now it's her turn to step closer. How daring of her.]

Just like I'll have to trust that you'll do the same.

[flamekthunder]

[He won't move when she steps closer, instead just watching her with a playful gleam in his eyes and slight smirk of his lips.]

You know I'm an opportunist.

[starshower]

I do.

[A playful narrow of her eyes, and she brings her brush back around like a shield to defend herself.]

Does that mean I shouldn't trust you?

[flamekthunder]

That's for you to figure out.

[HE RAISED THE BRUSH...

Only to swipe at the wall to add some color to it.]

[starshower]

[She feels herself wince slightly when he raises the brush, like she's preparing herself for another spray of paint...

...

Only for him to swipe it against the wall, and she looses all of the tension that had snapped up into her shoulders with a sigh.]

Alright, well. I'll head back over to my side of the wall and get started on the land by the water.