“No no, Alphinaud and Raha just left to return to their chambers mere minutes ago. Perfect timing I dare say.”

The Rising Stones were empty for the most part, just Ephemie seemed to be busy at the kitchen counter across the room and some chatter came from another corner. Could have been Urianger and Thancred, Nimda mused, they stuck around usually this time of night.

With no eyes on them, Nimda took her chance and whipped around the chair to settle right on Alisaie's lap, one arm flung over her shoulders to keep herself steady and her feet left dangling above the ground. She snagged the box from the table as Alisaie adjusted herself on the chair, no protest coming from her from Nimda's impromptu decision.

“I got you something, like I promised.” Nimda smiled, but had to hold back a chuckle as she tucked open the box all the while she carefully maneuvered her balance. Alisaie watched her closely, making sure Nimda didn't fall off her lap as she fumbled with the strings around the box, but eventually took over to open it when she was close to being done.

“I recall something about commissioning the chef for some cookies …” Alisaie's eyes were fixated on the box, curious but bracing herself all the same for whatever Nimda brought her here - it did not fly over her head how Nimda had to hold back at least some embarrassment in form of her stifled giggles.

Out of the box she took two rather large ginger cookies, both shaped like people - Alisaie eyed them closely in between her fingers and each second that passed it dawned to her more and more. … Tail, Miqo'te ears, distinctive spikey hair? Elezen ears, a sword like weapon, definitely her ponytail. The smile she had turned slowly into a grin, larger and larger.

“Are these…” She tried to turn her head towards Nimda, but Nimda had already buried her head too far into Alisaie's shoulder to hide her face, feeling her held-back chuckle against herself. “... Us?”

She tucked the box into her lap, able to reach out to Nimda to poke her cheek to get back her attention - she knew that otherwise she wouldn't get a response from her any time soon.

“In my defense -” Nimda lifted her head up and took a deep breath to calm her laughter. “ - I only said I wanted something special, I didn't think-”

Yet her words stopped here as she watched Alisaie carefully trace around the outline of the Miqo'te cookie, giving the ears extra attention. Their eyes locked and Nimda could see the mischief behind Alisaie's eyes -

And then with a single strike Alisaie bit off a cookie ear.

Nimda could only stare. She knew she had no way of hiding this incoming blush which she felt creeping up on her quite quickly (why, even?).

“... H-Hey!” She finally managed to blurt out, adjusting herself in Alisaie's lap to directly face her. That smug gaze, her grin - Nimda acted swiftly and grabbed the Elezen cookie from Alisaie's hand, and without much else thought she took a big bite out of the cookie's head, including one whole ear and the entire cheek.

For Alisaie, this was what tipped her completely over, falling forward with her forehead against Nimda's chest in a fit of giggles, unable to hold back anymore. And it was hard for Nimda to not join in for that one, burying her face into Alisaie's hair as she giggled all the same.