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[daggering]

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[ktiseos]

[well idk what emet's modifiers are but he got a 9 so like. vax can 100% sneak up on him.

and what he finds, in the simulation room, is emet-selch in amaurot. the city gleams, practically, tall and beautiful spired buildings reaching up into the sky, figures in black robes and white masks strolling from one place to another.

he's lying beneath a tree, on a patch of grass; its leaves are soft shades of purple and blue. his arms are folded behind his head, gaze fixed up into the sky, and the feeling coming from him is just...

well. homesickness.]

[daggering]

[ lmao

he doesn't try to sneak as much once he makes it to the city - curiosity takes over. vax stops sneaking as he wanders the streets of this pretty place, reminded for a moment of the cloudtop district in all of its former glory in emon.

when one of those figures looks familiar, though, vax slows down. he's pulled his hood up over his head, and as he comes closer, he pulls it back down, and then unceremoniously plops down next to him. emet can feel his emotions back - a brief fondness, curiosity, a little relief in the "oh, there you are" sort of way. ]

Home, huh?

[ hi ]

[ktiseos]

Wh-

[he glances up, eyes wide for just a moment when he's surprised by vax's sudden presence-- there's an abrupt wash of alarm, quickly followed by relief. it's just you. then annoyance, but the annoyance covers up something warmer and more fond.]

Could you not simply send a message? Announce your presence at all?

[daggering]

Nope.

[ awful. his emotions are immediately amused, as if emet couldn't already tell that. he's clearly teasing if that big grin on his face is any indication. the big wide eyed look gets him to laugh, even, and he flops down next to him on the grass. ]

Been looking for you. You're not usually a hard guy to find, you know.

[ktiseos]

Well, pardon me for not wishing all and sundry to feel my every emotion.

[he grumbles that out, but-- vax is already here. there's little sense in continuing to run now.]

[daggering]

's not that big of a deal.

[ vax, who wears all his emotions on his sleeve, lolls his head to look at emet, propping his head on his own arm. ] Just feelings. Everyone has em.

[ktiseos]

And I prefer to keep mine private, thank you.

[there is, maybe, a touch of embarrassment along with the grumpiness here. the fondness has not gone anywhere.]

[daggering]

Keep things private, huh? [

unfortunately


vax is a gremlin

and a gremlin with high emotional perception

he rolls over a little further, now half leaning over him, and grins, mischevious. ]

You like me.

[ktiseos]

You-!

[he makes such a face, reaching up to shove lightly at vax. he feels a little flustered, emotionally speaking, but it doesn't show on his face-- he's not flushed.]

I have accepted your presence, yes, do not go and read into it overmuch.

[daggering]

[ DELIGHTED okay contrary to the thread with percy, emotionshare is great, actually? he laughs, wild and free, as he's shoved backwards. it's not at all effective, because he just comes back, grinning. ]

I'm not reading into it, I can feel it.

[ hey, well, vax is super obvious about his own emotions, but emet can pretty easily feel his, too. mutual affection, warmth, happiness, effusive joy. and the gremlin emotion. lots of that. just - a lot better. there's always a sort of sense of melancholy that follows vax around, but at the moment, it's almost negligible. ]

[ktiseos]

Then stop feeling it at once-!

[huffed, almost reflexively. stop that. he knows very well it can't simply be turned off, but listen, sometimes you snap the first thing that comes to mind.

that affection, the warmth, the joy-- they're hard to ignore, once felt. it's so reminiscent of others he knows, who he's... well. much fonder of than he likes to admit.

maybe that's similar here, too.]

[daggering]

[ hm

well.

smiling. challenging, voice a little lower: ]

Make me.

[ktiseos]

[hm. his gaze sharpens, there. he stays right where he is for a moment.

had he his powers, he could teleport vax away with a snap of his fingers, but mundane times call for mundane measures.

also known as: abruptly moving to scoop him the fuck up so emet-selch can attempt to deposit him right back outside of simulations. he sits up and just attempts to scoop vax up along with him as he stands.]

[daggering]

[ SHWJKSHSH NOOOO HE'S IMMEDIATELY GRABBING ONTO THE TREE LIKE A CAT he is also still injured and like, hysterically laughing as this is happening so it is not very effective. ]

Hey, hey - ! Fuck! I was joking!

[ktiseos]

Stop struggling, you're injured-

[he is, to his credit, trying to be careful. also: you started this, vax.]

[daggering]

[ clings harder to the tree (tree) not the tree (emet) ]

Stop trying to drag me, then!

[ he will eventually relent though

congratulations on your arms full of vax i guess he just grins at him like the absolutely naughtiest cat in the entire world ]

[ktiseos]

[somewhere in here, there's something that feels a little amused. a little flash of it.]

Well. I do hope you have learned not to issue challenges you do not intend.

[vax absolutely has not, he's positive of this.]

[daggering]

Nope.

[ and like, just to add to this completely ridiculous mood he leans right in and kisses him on the nose.

and then goes to try and squirm free again goodbye ]

[ktiseos]

Vax-!

[okay. this time his face is slightly pink, along with the flustered feeling. where does vax keep all of those daggers and also the AUDACITY hidden, what the fuck!

he can definitely squirm free that way, while emet-selch is surprised.]

I swear, you are the most ridiculous--

[daggering]

[ wehe

well, he never really knows when to quit so even when he's back on his feet, he just smiles at him, very cat-who-got-the-cream, very mischievous, very victorious. ]

Yeah? You like that about me, though.

[ fucking awful ]

[ktiseos]

I most certainly do not.

[he does. his emotions say it for him, a wash of exasperation mixed with fondness, familiarity.]

[daggering]

Liar.

[ this is the best day ever

anyway, he will stop teasing too much, and instead he gestures out around this simulation. ] Show me around. This is where you live, yeah?

[ktiseos]

[huffs.

but he turns his attention to the city, then, with-- a sense of comforting familiarity. home. belonging.]

So it is. Amaurot, the jewel of Etheirys-- our capital.

[daggering]

[ vax stuffs his hands in his pockets. maybe notable, he's not wearing the deathwalkers ward today, instead rocking this sort of fit, though he's got a cloak over his shoulders instead of a leather jacket. he sticks out like a sore thumb in this place, but thats ok.

tilting his head up, up, to the spires, he puts a hand over his eyes as if to peer into the distance. ]

Place's huge. Kinda makes me feel like an ant.

[ everyone is massive also ] Pretty, though.

[ktiseos]

Well, you are all much smaller than my own kind.

[he still doesn't know he's lacking in height... so it's all scaled to emet's current height, not to like 20 feet. it's still enough to make vax feel pretty small, though, yeah.]

Though to me, it tends to look something more like...

[since this is a simulation, he'll just adjust it, wandering to the door if he needs to--

and currents of sparkling light weave their way through the sky, the air, the land. the people walking the streets glow in soft color, in varied hues, and the sky now glitters with stars and magic both.]