✧ — four seasons green tea.

[boba]

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[ haki you are too fast why did i type the same word twice… reaches into past to throttle myself

but, whatever!!!! he's just going to huff as he goes down. no hot cocoa? or any of papá elysium's hot carajillo? alright… he has no complaints as long as they end up by the fireplace. fine. ]

Have higher standards for yourself. If you're going to enjoy a vacation, you should enjoy it to its limit.

[ … ]

Turn.

[ spoken like he's talking to a pochi. i find it so funny that he's somehow never actually seen hien in his dog form. ]

[selfconcept]

[ it's fine i do it all the time without meaning to

The hot carajillo can come next week. Hien wants to sleep first and foremost and hopefully get Elysium to relax too. He listens and then

just pauses. ]

"But I wanted to face you."

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You had the entire time at the library to stare at it and now your complimentary time for it has run out.

Pay up by turning.

[selfconcept]

[ ...................................................

Hien sighs and turns. He doesn't want to be the little spoon. ]

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he is the little spoon. elysium makes himself comfortable… ]

If you're dissatisfied, stop forgetting to drink milk.

[selfconcept]

[


He supposes this was inevitable. ]

"What? Why milk..."

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So you can try and grow taller.

[ futilely.


pats his head. ]

[selfconcept]

[ The only reason why I'm not shocked at Elysium being 6'2" tall is because I looked at the stat sheet last night because I keep forgetting that he has a good 10 centimeters or so over Hien.

It's funny that he says that, because... ]

"There is not a single world where any of my variations are taller than the height I'm at now."

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[ crying

i think about how everyone in my last game was like he gives off 5'10" energy at most. meanwhile i've just been constantly haunted that hien is thorns height so i sadly have a very good visual of their difference at all times. ]

Oh…

That's so sad. It's okay. You're taller than Dahut and Mitsuba at least, right?

[selfconcept]

[ 5'10" energy is exactly what I pictured Elysium all the time... help. The way 5'10" is usually converted to 177cm but I gave Hien an extra one so he's 178cm... Tiny ass difference. ]

"That's an incredibly low bar."

[ binch. He lightly backkicks Elysium's foot. ]

"Would you like me more if I was?"

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If you stayed as tiny as you were a few days ago, I finally found a jar I could've put you in. You should've stayed like that.

[ he hums as if he's thinking this over. ]

That wouldn't have been so bad. You'd be the communal Hien we all look after.

[ maybe he wouldn't have been kidnapped for cyoa. wow. their hamster that they just feed with seeds. ]

[selfconcept]

"Thankfully, I'm very low maintenance and self-sufficient."

[ He'd just eat and sleep in the jar. That's it. ]

"But you'd like to treat me like a pet, despite not knowing that I can turn into a dog. Good to know, I guess."

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Uh huh…

[ AT LEAST ASK FOR FURNITURE

he isn't holding onto hien as tightly as he could be, arm loosy wound around hien's waist. at the end of the day, it was easier when he could tell himself all there was between them was physical chemistry.

…

he closes his eyes. ]

For wanting to sleep, you sure are being talkative.

[selfconcept]

[ He's used to sleeping on the ground and maybe park benches if he's lucky. ]

"I also wanted to face you while sleeping, but we can't have it all, can we?"

[ :///// ]

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Hasn't everyone who's checked up on you spoiled you enough?

[ this is already a lot… he wants to both get fully comfortable and crawl out of his skin. what a feeling. ]

You're getting brattier.

[selfconcept]

"I'm greedy. You should know that about me."

[ Not like Elysium hasn't already seen that in action a few times... ]

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You still listen. Not well, but that's something.

[ his forehead lightly touches hien's back. cannot emphasise how much this is killing both his flighty and slow burn ass. ]

… Go to sleep already.

[selfconcept]

[ good luck, elysium... So much for wanting him to relax when it's doing the complete opposite. Good thing Hien is none the wiser.

He suddenly turns since the hold on him wasn't tight enough. ]

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spooning over. he also turns the other direction. ]

[selfconcept]

[ Hien bites back a sigh and wraps his arms around Elysium's torso and buries his face into the nape of his neck. The feathers tickle his nose. What does he smell like.... ]

"If you really don't want to stay here, you can go."

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[ he smells clean, very faintly of perfume. think a little woodsy and of fresh laundry set to dry under sun.

instead of answering hien like a normal person, he evens out his breathing and pretends to sleep. ]

[selfconcept]

[ It's a nice scent and it helps Hien relax. He's seen Elysium fake sleep before, so he's not too surprised when he does this. He only knows a handful of people who can sleep at will, and he doesn't think Elysium is one of them.

But okay. You can't say that you didn't have your chance. Hien sleeps a very deep sleep, but the death grip he has on Elysium prevents him from going anywhere until Hien wakes or if he can somehow make Hien's arms disappear. He is so cuddly, but annoyingly so. ]

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[ he might not be able to sleep at will, but he can fall asleep relatively quickly when sleep is too much of a luxury out in the field. you either take it when it comes during your rounds, or you don’t, and then you risk putting everyone else in danger because you missed something through sheer deprivation.

this, though, is definitely its own case. he feels responsible for hien in a way he shouldn't, is back to being close to him when he'd told himself he'd establish distance. what happened to boundaries? stupid.

so it takes him a little longer than usual to fall asleep. a little longer, meaning quite a bit longer. but eventually he settles, eases into his hold, and drifts off, curling more into him. warm… ]

[selfconcept]

[ Hien has a dream for once. He sits on the dry sand at the beach, looking over the ocean. A flock of seagulls come to him in hopes of snatching some of the bread that he's eating. In the end, Hien tosses a few pieces. They stick around until Hien has nothing left, except one. It has a little sea urchin in its mouth, but it doesn't eat it. Huh. Weird.

He gradually wakes in purgatory noon. The maze hasn't shifted yet to make room for the new one, so they're still in the little sleepover corner. Is Elysium still there in his hold? Is he still sleeping? ]

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[ it has a little sea urchin in its mouth, and it almost looks sad. perhaps it washed ashore—that's why it stays, keeping it protectively in its beak until the reason why becomes obvious. when the other seagulls scatter, then, and only then, it carefully sets the urchin back into the sea before flying off.

as it is, elysium wakes, realises the hold has loosened by hien's standards, and gently sits up. if this were anyone else, he'd already be gone. his feelings towards it are rather complicated. instead: ]

You're up?

[ a little quietly. the fingers that had been threating themselves through hien's hair stop, almost startled. ]