doing something

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Who: some kids
Where: the dead zone
When: Day 335, after graduation

[After many a tiny finger food and many more tiny glasses of wine and one overblown and completely not sad at all!!! graduation ceremony, what better place to go than the dead zone? What better thing to do than climb up the giant, golden chain up to the crack in the sky? Sure it burns to the touch, but what's a little more pain on the pile--that's the point of all those tiny glasses of wine, right?

So never mind the slight sizzling sound, nor the uncomfortably familiar odor of burning flesh all the way up. There's a goal at the end; one that--in theory--will make this all worthwhile]

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[Definitely adding a lot more water to the unit bath's sad plastic drain than his outfit does]

[She returns before long dressed in boxers and a t-shirt, hair twisted into a perilous, damp pile at the top of her head and glasses hooked into her collar]

[crossmyheartandhope]

[He greets her with a cup of tea, now freshly steaming]

You ready for blankets?

[unbr8kable]

Yeah...yeah, I could go for blankets.

[She leans into the steam, breathing in]

Need me to carry anything else?

[crossmyheartandhope]

Think I got everything I need.

[unbr8kable]

[Quirks a smile, then follows him into the fort then]

[crossmyheartandhope]

[It takes him a few to nestle in,making a little opening as a nest for them not unlike that time when he was part bird,]

[unbr8kable]

[Just watches with tea, gently amused]

[crossmyheartandhope]

[When everything is properly into place, he makes an opening for her and settles into his half]

[unbr8kable]

[She is uncharacteristically careful sliding in, and only pushes over one or two of the blankets onto him as she balances the mug between her folded legs]

[crossmyheartandhope]

[He settles in against her right away - chilly, but not freezing, for once]

[unbr8kable]

[She threads their fingers, easy, marveling at the fact that they aren't ice cold]

...Hey. Uh, thanks again, for letting me drag you out.

[crossmyheartandhope]

[Squeezes her hand, gentle]

You didn't drag me nowhere I didn't wanna go.

[unbr8kable]

Didn't mean you wanted to go right then.

[Plays with the rim of the mug with her free hand]

...Anyways. Guess it worked out, more or less.

[crossmyheartandhope]

...yeah.

You feeling okay?

[unbr8kable]

[She shrugs]

Been worse. ...Been better. You?

[crossmyheartandhope]

Yeah... same.

[He settles in against her, reaching over her, casual, to draw the blankets in nearer around them]

[unbr8kable]

Yeah...

[A sigh]

...Yeah.

[Silence for another beat, then she shifts, leaning in against his shoulder]

[crossmyheartandhope]

[He leans back, a steady weight - sips at his tea]

[It isn't long before the chill leaves him, and he is very warm in its aftermath]

[unbr8kable]

[The angle isn't such where she can actually see his expression, but just the heat of him beside her is enough to set an absent, persistent smile on her face.

She makes short work of her tea, apparently less out of thirst and more because with the mug out of the way she can curl in a little bit more]

[crossmyheartandhope]

[His is gone pretty fast, too - thirsty, from all that wine and nothing else to drink, and hungry enough by now that the honey extra appealing. When it's gone, he swabs the honey from the bottom of the cup with a finger, absently, and sucks it off - sets the cup aside, when he's done, to settle in against her]

[unbr8kable]

[She shifts again, her other arm draping over his waist]

Still hungry? I'll grab you something else, if you want.

[crossmyheartandhope]

If you can levitate it over with your mind powers, sure. Otherwise I'm good.

[He has not been warm in 100+ odd days, either of them moving sounds unappealing,]

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[Reaches out her arm towards the snacks at the table...]

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.........

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...!!!