[ brow ] sender kisses the bridge of receiver's eyebrow
-- @13nth
Give her the smooches!
"Roxas, I'm fine. I promise." As fine as someone with mana exhaustion could be. But she was feeling a bit stubborn in the moment. What should have been normal training today became a little more intense when heartless showed up.
Since she had been demonstrating when they showed up, Nicole was already a little winded when they did. Even if Roxas ran out of mana, he'd be fine. He still has a weapon to fight with. Nicole had to fight defensively, and she did so adequately. Not enough to ever think of joining them on their ventures, but enough from what Merlin had taught her to not die should she ever find herself low.
What had caught her off guard was just as she had been turning, barely able to see it and step back as one of the heartless scratched at her. It'd had gone for her face, only just barely knicking her eyebrow.
A pointblank fire had burned the heartless to cinders and darkness.
Now for her original goal of turning around, it was to check on Roxas. A lot closer than before, he had been coming to her to get the heartless that had snuck up on her. He was more than capable of handling himself and her apparently, but she still worried. Seeing that he had a few scratches on him, she hands him an elixir. "Here ya go, Roxas." It's better that he patch himself up both health wise and mana wise.
With a comforting and encouraging smile, she wants him to have it. Granted, she didn't have any ether, and hadn't noticed how spent she was until she tried to use just a small cure on herself. Nothing obvious aside from the cut and a few bruises, but it would have helped rid herself of the physical fatigue. The spell hadn't gone off, and her hands were trembling.
'Wait a sec.' Roxas had told her as he began rummaging through his pockets. Ah, there.
He had bandaids, the same ones she gave him the other day when they were baking. Just on the off chance he cut himself while working with the food. They were cute and had little characters on them as he unwrapped one and placed it on the cut on her eyebrow. She figures it's a gesture of comfort, much in the same way she had done for him prior, but he kisses where he placed the bandaid. It was cute! Her face scrunched up with joy as she was smiling at him.
"Thanks, Roxas! I think I'm feelin' a bit better now. Maybe we can stop fer a snack break an' then decide if we jus' wanna chill, 'er try practicin' again?"
