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[winces]

CHARACTERS: olivia, kagari
DATE: ~makes vague hand gestures~
WARNINGS: kagari
SUMMARY: olivia stress bakes and kagari helps (???)

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[winces]

[ it wound up being, like most things, a Good Idea At The Time™. the cats were, unsurprisingly, not too keen on the idea at first, which olivia totally understood. it's one thing to be welcoming and accommodating of alien visitors, but it's another thing entirely when aforementioned alien visitors insist on using your own workspace to let out some quietly pent up tension.

(thankfully, olivia has been getting quicker and quicker about controlling her own irritation — a lingering side effect of the vaccine — and so the little confrontation didn't escalate any worse.)

eventually they let her be, with the caveat not to make too much of a mess, and to mind all their equipment. she supposes it helped that she looks barely able to snap a twig in half. which, to be fair, many of the utensils in this teeny kitchen are around the same size.

so, in the end, she winds up getting what she wants... except for the fact the entire space is built to accommodate tiny four-legged creatures.

needless to say, it's quite easy to get a few cuts and burns here and there. ]

—Ouch!

[ never before has baking betrayed her quite like this. ]

[hedonistic]

[It would seem Olivia's not the only one with the idea of poking around in the kitchens to make her own food.

Kagari happens to approach the cats about it soon afterward, just about at the same time as her exclamation carries through the doorway. The cat he's trying to wheedle simply lifts her nose in the air and allows him passage, a haughty do mind your paws on her way out.

He grins cheekily on his way inside.]

How're your paws?

[winces]

My — what?

[ kagari catches olivia hunching over the stove, one hand firmly around the handle of a pot while the other is clenched into a fist, held tight against her chest. her face is still twisted up into a wince, even as she looks up to meet him. ]

Oh... I'm sorry, did you need the space?

[hedonistic]

Nah, it's cool. I didn't have anything in mind, really.

[He was just bored, and cooking for himself (and others, when the opportunity presented itself) has always been more fun than eating whatever was available.

His eyes flick over to her hand again, and then he adds:]

How 'bout I watch the stove while you run that paw under some cold water, yeah? Whaddya say?

[kagari that joke fell flat the first time, why are you making it a second]

[winces]

[ olivia glances down at her hand, the tips of her fingertips already beginning to glow an angry red in response. she hasn't had much energy left to spare, given how often she's been pooling her "resources" (as it were) in keeping her emotions even, but if it's just a little burn...

she purses her lips slightly, and after a few seconds' worth of concentration, the skin on her fingertips clear out. ]

Oh, it's quite alright. See? You needn't trouble yourself... over my paw.

[ heh heh ]

[hedonistic]

[Holy shit. Kagari's eyes widen at the sight of her fingers healing themselves--his standard neut--ral but friendly demeanor swapping itself out for something far more animated (and obviously excited) as he all but bounces on his heeld.]

Oh my god, was that--pawsibly magic? [ok ok he'll stop now, third time is the charm, clearly.]

You didn't even glow or say anything....how'd you do that???

[winces]

Oh, um—

[ she cringes a little, belatedly realizing now that that isn't exactly normal. it's been so long since she's had them, and she has used them so indiscriminately in the past few missions... she very often forgets to be more careful about it. ]

I suppose it is magic, yes... ALASTAIR had gifted it to me a few months ago.

what the heck was that failed hyphen sdkfjalkgf oops

[hedonistic]

[Hear that, Olivia? That was the record scratch in Kagari's brain.]

Hold up. ALASTAIR can give you magic???

[You've sealed Lloyd's fate, Olivia. Once communications with Oska go back up he's going to bother him about this so much.]

???! i didn't even notice

[winces]

[ she is struck a bit by the somewhat crazed look in his eyes. absently, she begins to lean back... ]

Y-Yes...? I have not heard of anyone making requests, but. Both times, I've simply woken up to them.

and now im super late ah ... gomens

[hedonistic]

[LOOK this is very exciting okay, getting magic would be the best thing that's ever happened to him.]

And you didn't have any weird like, side effects or anything? Or have to pay a cost to use 'em or whatever?