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[bloodandblunder]

"H... hello? Um, this is me-- ah, Noire! I'm Noire, and I'm very sorry for missing you somehow... I promise I'm not avoiding you, unless you're scary or you're Mo-- trying to curse me. U-um, so when I can figure out how to-- ( beeps ensue, followed by a shriek of fright ) O-oh, no! What did I push, how do I-- make it-- oh gods, did I break it?! W-why can't we just talk in person?!"

[ BEEP. ]

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[bloodandblunder]

... If you really don't want to, you don't have to.

[willbreak]

[ STOP BEING ABLE TO READ HIM.

He'll give her a somewhat absent look for all of a second, before coming forward out of the crouch and down onto one knee, reaching his hands out for hers to propose that they live happily ever after in a cottage beyond the mountains. ]

Running away from you... isn't something I want to do anymore.

[bloodandblunder]

[ wow, he turns red and stammers when she saves a cake for him, and then he does something like this like it ain't no big thang.

Noire looks bewildered, flustered, and all of those embarrassing things for the time it takes for her to answer him. But at the same time, her chest warms, because even if she'd never tell him, it had hurt when he'd run away from her before. For reasons she now knew, of course, but still.

So she nods, slowly. ]

All right.

[willbreak]

[ THIS IS NOT WOOING, IT'S A COMFORTING STRATEGY that isn't really strategic.

... See his problem with girls here.

With a reassuring squeeze, he lets go of her, pulls out the arrows that are still attached to his sleeves (whoops) and hands them to her. Then he stands up and steps back, arms positioned downward and a little in front of him as if he's about to leapfrog over something.

Which is kind of true. ]

System call, generate aerial element. Compress, burst!

[ And then he'll shoot straight up into the air leaving a small crater and a cloud of dust in his wake. High, higher, now on buildingtop height...

See, pushing off like this is a lot easier than landing safely because what is control. ]

[bloodandblunder]

[ ... well, she can't entirely say she expected that.

She can't say she expected that at all, actually, and she almost drops the arrows he'd so thoughtfully returned to her as she sways to her feet and tilts her head back to watch him soar straight up.

He hadn't been kidding about his magic, that much is apparent. ]

[willbreak]

[ Unfortunately, he's nowhere near as graceful coming down, and around halfway he swerves dangerously and —

yep, he's lost control of aerial element.

That doesn't mean he comes crashing to the ground. In fact, the time between the swerve and the giant spear of metal burying itself in the ground directly beneath him is virtually nil, and the way he hugs it and slides down probably gives off the impression that he's done this before. A lot.

See, he can land. Slightly unconventionally, but he's working on that. ]

[bloodandblunder]

[ EUGEO...

Don't mind Noire, she's just going to try and remember how to breathe. ]

[willbreak]

... Noire?

[ He'll just. Casually stand here holding onto the spear-pole. ]

[bloodandblunder]

That's... really amazing... but I thought my heart was going to stop--

[willbreak]

Um... do you want water or something?

[ #charmer ]

[bloodandblunder]

N-no, I'm fine! I'm completely fine!

[ please don't drench her again. ]

[willbreak]

[ WOW HE MEANT TO DRINK.

and he just looks confused at her reaction tbh. ]

If you say so.

[bloodandblunder]

[ don't ask. ]

But really... you've gotten a lot stronger since the last time.

[willbreak]

You don't... mind?

[bloodandblunder]

[ Eugeo's had enough time to be puzzled; it's her turn now. ]

...? Why would I mind?

[willbreak]

[ BRIGHT RED. ]

D-doesn't matter.

[ Forget it. (He's still never showing her fire ever.) ]

[bloodandblunder]

[ nope, not today. She's just going to stare at him. ]

Wait... did you really think this would bother me?

[willbreak]

[ does his fidgeting answer the question? ]

[bloodandblunder]

... Why?

[willbreak]

It's nothing...

[bloodandblunder]

Eugeo. [ and every time he says it's nothing, it's usually not. ] If it was something I did to make you think that way, I'm sorry, but--

[willbreak]

N-no, it's me, not you...

[ sounding more and more muffled ]

[bloodandblunder]

...

[ but she doesn't know why, can she just look pitifully confused until he stops being baffling-- ]

[willbreak]

... What were you doing before you... saw me, anyway...?

[ get the conversation away from him please please please... ]

[bloodandblunder]

[ one of these days, he may come to realize that Noire isn't easily distracted, she's just nice enough to go with it when he looks that distressed. ]

Looking for food? No one's starving, but just in case...