Murder of Crows

“Don’t worry. Winter usually only lasts until around March or April. Soon everything will be warm and- Oh! The flowers will start to bloom!” 

Crow looks confused as he notices a rather... Vibrantly wrapped package sitting on his workbench. He blinks a few times before he lifts up the box, carefully removing the colorful wrapping paper. The box is warm in his hands as she lifts the top off of the box. 

Cookies... 

Numerous types lay in an unorganized pile in the box, all the sweet aromas of sugar hitting him like a sniper bullet. It was a great new sense he hadn’t had the pleasure of experiencing before. 

Glint looked inside the box and looked startled. 

“Ooooo, wow! Look at them all! Do you know who sent them? Was there a note?”

Crow notices a loose leaf of paper on the bench, seems it was sat under the box. 

“Happy Dawning, New Light. I hope this care package finds you well and I hope you can partake in the holiday spirit.... Col.... What does that part mean?” 

Glint gives a movement akin to a shrug and that seems to let Crow brush the worry away, lifting a cookie to his mouth and near instantly relaxing at the sweetness and warm comfort. 

So...

This was how true kindness worked huh? At least when it was fueled by a holiday.

Eager nods come with Glint’s words, the Hunter giggling in between as she continued to stare down Crow. Despite his face contorting in a puzzled irritation, there remained a content softness to his features she never quite noticed before. Something different than those who harden over time, given the stress of some Guardians. Perhaps even younger than her in terms of Risen – not often a feat she can run across. 

Of course, she was going to take advantage over the matter in sporting jest and tease.

     “ Some call you dashing? I can see it, “ Selene grins, taking a hop-step back to provide the other at least some space to breathe. “ The ol’ brood and mysterious charm, “ she plants her feet, briefly mimicking Crow’s idle stance with a deeper tempo in her voice – all before cracking the façade in another set of soft-lived chuckles. “ You do have a cute face though – honest! It wouldn’t kill ya’ to let the hood down some times. “

“....”

Crow is quiet for a moment as he tries to figure out just what to do with himself here. He’s nervous, he’s annoyed... Not at her but at himself, not to mention he’s flustered to hell and back and its not a position he ever truly figured he’d find himself in.  He tries to sink back into cover with his face but Glint isn’t having it it seems. 

“Crow! For Traveler’s sake!” 

He exclaims with an eye roll as he hovers over and seems to purposefully tangle himself in the wrappings just enough to tug it away and flip his hood off before disapparating and reapparating near Selene. 

Cont. from here @sovereigncrow

“I-I… Hmm…” He can’t formulate a response, now hyper aware of his facial expressions. Crow lets out a mild mumble that one will never know the true words that left him, as he pulls the scarf around his neck up over his mouth.

Her reaction comes off as hesitantly startled at first – brow risen at whether or not it had come off as offensive in any way. Merely an observation in their time passed, his light-hearted smile of simply having company something that put her soul at ease. 

Though dense as she may be – the realization that it hadn’t been something taken negatively… was he turning color? A  glint of amusement now plastered across her face, topped with a cat-like grin as the Awoken tilted her head against the brief height distance between the two. 

She’s standing in front of him now - halting him in both their tracks as she looked up into the Spider’s hood. Cheeky grin held in place as the freckles shimmered against surrounding light source – her arms tangle behind her waist as she lets out her own laughter on the matter.

     “ Oh, don’t hide it! That’s cheating! “ she chimes. Cyan eyes gleaming in childish play as she continues, “ It’s not a bad thing, you know! Some would even go as far as to say it’s cute. Isn’t that right, Glint? “

Crow tries to pipe up with a comeback but Glint is way ahead of him, a lighthearted chuckle coming from the little light. He hovers over to take a spot next to Selene like he’s taking her side on this matter. 

“She has a point you know. Many have called you dashing and the like but I think cute fits a little better.”

“GLINT!”