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  ❝ the juice? ❞  with a quick glance, matt notices the liquid dangerously teetering the edge. he grins a little, but makes no effort to move. ❝ aw, no use crying over spilled juice. ❞ he’d just get her another anyway. 

  ❝ … true. ❞  they’ve been able to get by doing so after all. still, some days he wonders what he’d be able to do for her if they couldn’t.  ❝ been thinkin’ a little too much about it lately. can’t exactly protect you with my sad excuse for a gun n’ all, y’know? ❞

     ❖ ❝ Or you could-- ❞ she lightly grabs his bicep, trying to move his hand towards the cup.

     ❝ Just move slightly to prevent it from happening, ❞

     ❝ ... Oh! Is that what you’ve been worried about? ❞ she interrupts herself with a genuine question, slightly flustered for a moment. Poor Matt; who knows what else he’s been worrying about in the meantime? 

  ❝ s’pose you’re right. ❞  matt lazily plops himself beside her at the picnic table, body slumping against her side as if she’s the only thing that’ll keep him up. ❝ been lucky so far. we haven’t been stuck in the crazies lately. ❞ it’s been relatively nice in his pocket of this universe, enjoying quistis’s company and doing shit at his own pace. quiet like this never lasted forever though. if anything, it’s been too quiet for the both of them.

  ❝ … do ya think we’ll be able to keep avoidin’ it like this? feels like we’re due to be thrown into the next big bad. ❞

      ❖ ❝ The only thing we have to worry about right now is not spilling this juice, ❞ Quistis jests in reply, looking over at the other now slumping against her side. 

      ❝ Though, I think even if something happens... ❞

  ❝ kinda checks out, given how long we been hangin’ around. ❞  a couple months of peace, then a few weeks of chaos. like clockwork, almost, that it was sadly predictable. holding out a a cold drink he purchased from a nearby vending machine, matt urges her to take it. ❝ you worried about it, quis? doesn’t seem like it’s reached here yet, but… ❞ 

      ❖ ❝ It does but maybe that’s what makes it even more worrying, ❞ the blonde soon replies, reaching out for the beverage currently being offered to her now.

“…Appropriately. What would you consider to be appropriate attire for warm weather, then?”

          ❝ Since it’s a beautiful woman asking… they look wrinkled like shrimp but aren’t actually meat. Hence vegetarian shrimp. ❞ no, harpy.

      ❖ ❝ No need for flattery here, ❞ especially since she’s not sure how to take it still.

甘雨 “Hm… Hungry, yes. You’re looking at me as if this is strange, but we Qilin eat plants.” This was unintentionally uninformative of the fact that she was still half human, but it wasn’t something she believed everyone needed to know. It would cause confusion otherwise. “Because the plants and flowers I’m familiar with don’t appear to exist here, I’m left to try and find what I can and cannot eat.”

To call it a matter of research was just wholly inaccurate. For Ganyu, it was a matter of survival.

“Is poison content documented somewhere? My stomach should be able to tolerate most, but if there was anything especially strong, it might make me sick. It would be unfortunate if I became bedridden as a result.”

     ❖ ❝ Ah, I see; so that’s it, ❞ comes the blonde’s reply with a soft hum.

     ❝ I’m just a normal human so I don’t really eat flowers, ❞

     ❝ So again, I must encourage you to consult the library to better know what to expect from specific flowers, ❞ the blue mage soon adds, a small smile apparent on her features now.

❥ — @bluewhiplash·

  valentine’s day. come to think of it, he had woken up in the city this time of year, hadn’t he? admittedly, the day itself snuck up on him without warning, but quistis seemed more than happy with his impromptu date and impulsive purchases of various related holiday goods throughout the day to make up for it. maybe the cheesy romcom helped too.  

  lounging lazily against the belly of a huge stuffed bear which he thinks he might be sinking in, matt was picking and dropping random candy hearts from the glass bowl with a particular sense of determination. he snorts, amused at some of the messages he’s come across. a mixture of old and new. quite a few he’d never seen before. 

  ❝ hey quis. did you know that— ❞  there’s a few more clinking noises and then, he’s holding a tiny green heart out that said: UR A QT to finish the rest of his sentence. matt had been doing this for the past half hour, yet it didn’t stop the smug grin widening across his face every time he did it. ❝ can’t deny it. heart said so. ❞

     ❖ It is with a short snort and chuckle that the blonde addresses the other, shaking her head lightly as she does so. Though she sits across from him cross-legged, Quistis is also sifting through the candy hearts if only because Matt is doing so. Truthfully she hadn’t expected their day day to detour into this particular activity, Quistis can’t say she minds at all.

     After all, Matt had spend most of the day peppering her with gifts and affection, so how could she? Not only that, but she’s having fun... She’s happy.

     ❝ Aren’t you getting tired of complimenting me endlessly? ❞ she jests with a playful roll of her eyes. In all honesty, though, she’s incredibly flattered. Embarrassed, but flattered.

甘雨 “Wildflowers? My world had flora with such a name as well, but I have never seen any quite like this.” Was it merely a difference in point of origin? The biome in this place was quite different from Liyue, so it made sense that different flowers would grow. Perhaps it just spoke to how untraveled the secretary was?

Ganyu picked one up, offered it an apology, and began to nibble on one of the flower petals. “The taste isn’t bad, but it’s a little bitter.” Considering it was unprompted, this likely looked a little strange. The half-Qilin was no stranger to eating flowers though, it was a good chunk of her diet.

“Reading can only provide so much detail however. Through their taste and texture, I can tell more than any book might.”

     ❖ Before the blonde has a chance to answer the girl proper, she is soon caught off guard by her actions. Why... Exactly is she starting to eat the flower? Is she truly that hungry? Or is it something else entirely? Unsure of the answer or exactly what to think, Quistis can only give the stranger a surprised, incredulous look.

     ❝ I’m... Guessing you’re hungry? ❞ she laughs a bit awkwardly.