Mini Event! the spider and the mistletoe
Across the Keep runs a rather large spider, scampering from building to building, room to room and carrying with him a decent sized branch of mistletoe. One might catch him skittering up a wall to build a web above a doorway, or stringing mistletoe up from various points on the ceiling.
He doesn't linger in any particular place for too long, save ( Read more... )
He doesn't linger in any particular place for too long, save ( Read more... )
It was cute, if a little strange. She had luckily found out how to put it to sleep already, and feeding and tickling weren't hard either. But she couldn't really tell if it was supposed to be a game or... A real pet.
It wasn't much good for cuddling.
Still, she carried it with her as she wandered the Keep, so alert for any wayward spiders that she walked past several sprigs of mistletoe without so much as noticing.
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"So, do you want to get out of here before anyone shows up?" She meant the spider.
But anyone else would be just as bad.
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"Do you, uh, have-- s-somewhere in-- i-in mind?"
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"Maybe the stables?" It was Christmas and she felt idle. It wasn't right somehow. The season should be busy with too much to do and too little time.
Maybe there'd be something to do there, like milk a cow or... Kairi found herself restraining giggles.
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It was an adventure, that was certain.
"O-Okay. But let's-- l-let's not-- go r-riding this time, o-okay? I-I don't know if I could-- could handle a-a dip in th-- the lake, a-at this time of year..."
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She started to walk away and then stopped and looked up at Xanth.
"Hey Xanth?"
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"Y--Yeah?"
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It was easy enough just to follow her impulse, lean up and drop a kiss on his cheek. It was clumsy, clumsier than she usually was. And while she meant the words, as soon as she'd done it she wondered if it was okay.
but she didn't want to think too hard about it or make it a big deal. It didn't have to be.
"C'mon, I'll race you. Ready? Go!"
And with a shout, she was off, her ferby protesting as it bounced along in her arms.
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That was a kiss. Not a proper kiss, really, but a kiss all the same. He didn't care that their faces bumped when she did it, or that it lasted only a fleeting moment. A faint blush rose to his cheeks and he very nearly touched a thumb to the spot, but then Kairi challenged him and, well, he couldn't lose without trying.
So Xanth took off after her, a smile on his face and a spring in his step.
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Of course, catching sight of Kairi carrying around the annoying, talking, fuzzy lump they'd all received was enough to whisk all thoughts of mistletoe and spiders out of his mind. Riku stopped, brows furrowing behind his blindfold.
"Kairi?" He didn't know whether she was still upset with him (he was betting yes, a little bit), but he couldn't help but ask. "What are you doing with that thing?"
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That was sad. She tried to hide it, focusing instead on the little creature and the noises it was making.
"Well, if I don't feed him, he could die."
She didn't know if it was true or not. And it was silly enough to make her cheeks turn just a little pink with embarrassment - she had just said that - but she didn't want a dead fluffy thing in her room.
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He hadn't even considered the fact that the mechanical things could die. Riku walked closer, lifting one side of his blindfold to peer at it closely. "You're not telling me these things can actually eat?"
Not that he'd bothered seeing for himself. His mechanical monster was still in the sack it'd come in, shoved under the bed. So long as the light wasn't hitting it, it seemed content to sleep. Or... whatever its equivalent of sleeping was.
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She poked her index finger into the thing's mouth and pressed down on it's tongue. Motors whirred and it let out a contented, if artificial-sounding 'yuuuummmmm.'
"Heh." She could only grin sheepishly.
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It was ridiculous, but he wasn't going to say that part aloud (after all, it already looked like she'd realized it when she'd first mentioned feeding it). If Kairi wanted to take care of the thing, he wasn't going to say anything about it.
"Does it do anything else? Anything interesting?"
Ignoring that his idea of interesting might not be the same as hers. Ignoring that entirely.
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Still, she was trying to be lighthearted. She reached for a joke, a quip, something she might've teased Riku or Sora with. But she came up short.
"Maybe," her voice was soft, the abashed cheer gone, "Tammy said they can learn to repeat secrets they hear."
Spying wasn't something Kairi had ever thought of as more than a game, but here? When everyone seemed to be keeping secrets from her? Maybe...
The thought fled as Kairi heard a scratching skittering sound on the ceialing behind her. She turned and craned her neck awkwardly. She had almost forgotten about the spider.
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Riku frowned, thinking about the consequences of such a thing. He didn't usually talk about things in his own room, but if they really could learn to repeat secrets, the toys were a liability.
A liability, but also possibly a useful tool, depending on if he could utilize it.
The same scratching sound distracted Riku from his thoughts as well. Instinctively his hand tightened, already gripping a hilt that hadn't formed, but he tamped down on the urge to call Soul Eater to him the moment before it flashed into existence. Instead, he glanced up, but what he noticed first wasn't the spider. Rather, he noticed the plant that hung above the two of them, dangling from the branch the spider carried.
"You can't be serious," Riku said, looking up at the spider and the mistletoe.
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