Momoko's place, El Paso, Texas, late Monday night

[lovemykilt]

Priestly tended to go a little extra scruffy in times of emotional stress. Especially ones like now, where he decided a good way to deal with it was to spend a long weekend out in a national park living in a tent and "communing with nature

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[heromaniac]

"Priestly?" Momoko stuck her head around the corner of the door and waved at him from the kitchen, her hair in a kerchief. "YOU CAME BACK! I wondered if maybe the coyotes got to you!"

[lovemykilt]

"Nope, no coyotes. Either literal or metaphorical. A couple horny toads, though." Literal and metaphorical. "What, you thought I couldn't do a weekend in a desert?"

Admittedly, he wouldn't blame her if she didn't.

He finished shaking out his boots and came in properly. "Are you cooking?"

[heromaniac]

"Ha ha," she laughed at his joke just as much as it deserved, then shook her head. "I worried maybe you'd gone loco and jumped into a cactus patch.

"And. Uhm." She looked behind her. "Actually I'm cleaning! I cooked Saturday."

Yes, it was Monday. So what?"

[lovemykilt]

Priestly should have left a bunch of casseroles in the fridge for her, shouldn't he. "What'd you cook?" And how crusted up were those pans of hers after two days?

[blondecanary]

*ringtone of Dinah!*

Because she's back home in New Gotham, and it's been longer than a week for her without talking to her BFF at this point.

[lovemykilt]

And really, that just wasn't right.

"Perfect timing," Priestly answered, skipping right past any awkward with the ease of too much practice. "I just got home from my vision quest."

[blondecanary]

"Ooooo. Did you see your spirit animal? Was it a chameleon or a blue-toed booby?"

Hi to you too, Priestly.

[lovemykilt]

"Neither. It was a horny toad." That joke wasn't getting old any time soon, no. "I don't know how much wisdom I got out of it, though."