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]

Yeah, we probably should.

[She steps closer, lifting the towels between them with an amused gleam in her eyes.]

Don't wanna upset the shopkeeps, but I think we're off to a good start.

[flamekthunder]

[He'll take one of the towels, but he does wonder if they should even bother right now with them. He has a strong suspicion they will just get paint all over themselves again...]

I think so, too. Think you can finish without making more of a mess?

[starshower]

I'll try to resist.

[Yeah, probably for the best that they leave them for later. She also has a feeling that they'll end up with more paint on them than what they started with—]

But you make it so difficult.

[So she'll set her towel aside for now and step over to the paints to refill what they'd lost.]

[flamekthunder]

What, blaming it on me?

[He starts to help arrange the paints again as he chuckles.]

You started it.

[starshower]

And you kept it going.

[She's pouring out some greens and blues onto the tarp, and maybe some reds for flowers, too.]

Who was the one who started tickling me?

[flamekthunder]

If was an effective countermeasure.

[Let's see, he was on the Grandcypher wasn't he? So some yellows should be fine...]

[starshower]

[And she was working on the beach and the sand... making a little shore where they can paint the rabbit and the wolf.]

And then it ended with us in even more paint, so could you really call it that?

[flamekthunder]

It did stop your attack. So I'd say while I might have lost the battle, I won the war.

[starshower]

[Her laughter echoes louder as she returns to painting the wall, her nose crinkling with a smile.]

War? I had no idea that you and I were at war. If I had, I might've fought a little harder.

[flamekthunder]

What, did you think it was just a little play?

[A playful smile as he finishes outlining the airship and starts filling it in.]

You know I don't things half measured.

[starshower]

Oh, I know.

[Why are her cheeks suddenly so warm? She keeps her eyes on the paint but she can hear and feel that smile he wears.]

But neither do I. I think I make for quite the adversary, don't you? I won't be easy on you next time.

[flamekthunder]

I will say you do make for a fun challenge...

[A firm brush of paint over the wall.]

But have I yet to lose?

[starshower]

[She has to think about that for a moment, and when she does, her cheeks redden all the more.]

I can think of one time where you might have. [A soft clearing of her throat and a teasing glance his way.] On my birthday...

[flamekthunder]

[A slight arch of the brow. He can think of one particular instance, but her reaction is suggesting otherwise... Which he can also think of, but is that really "losing"?]

You mean with the fishing?

[starshower]

[There's a long pause...

And then more, the only sound the din of people around them and the scrape of their brushes on the wall, before she finally answers.]

Mm-hm. Yep, was definitely talking about the fishing.

[Though, that does count!!!]

[flamekthunder]

[....Mhm.]

Then that's the only one, and that was more from luck.

[He's definitely baiting her.

And how would it count??]

[starshower]

[Still blushing furiously, she focuses more on her paint.]

I also think it took a little bit of skill to manage that...

[A pause.]

That fish didn't catch itself, you know.

[flamekthunder]

Just depended on which fish was ready to take the bait first, that's all. Neither of us lost our fish... Except for the time you slung it back behind us.

[starshower]

Hey!

[She waves her brush threateningly at him.]

I didn't lose the fish. I still caught it fair and square. I just got a little... invigorated, that's all. That one was a fighter. You should be proud.

[flamekthunder]

[He just smiles playfully at her.]

Never said I wasn't.

[starshower]

Then you oughtta show it.

[But before he gets the chance to, she motions to the wall.]

Think I'm done with the sandy beach, though. How does it look?

[It's just a streak of sandy white—]

[flamekthunder]

[What, as if he hasn't!! Okay he teases her more than express it, true.

But he's going to look at it for a moment... ...Hrmmmm...]

It's not bad. Seems a bit plain.

[Not that it needs to be that detailed, either, but...

...Compared to his sky and the bit of ocean he had started on, there's a lot more varying colors in his that makes her plain sandy white stick out. But then again, it's just a beach??? And it will have the wolf and rabbit on it...]

[starshower]

[She pouts at him, and then at the wall.]

... Well, I guess it is a little, but we'll be painting over it, right? Should I add a few seashells, maybe?

[flamekthunder]

[Well she asked his opinion!!]

Could add them after we paint the rabbit and the wolf.