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[ Angel Devil. ]
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[ if you're visiting the rose barn,
look for the door with the creepy bat-and-angel-wing sigil on it. Knock first! Or get zapped. ]

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Re: DAY 36

[finalbows]

_{[ long hair means a lot of tension in that scalp means that's objectively rather pleasant. initially feels like a spot between his shoulder blades prickles, a little bit, too, but... it fades, as Muffin keeps going. ]}

Do tell. I wonder which.

Was it the one about the old man in a mauseoleum...? Or the Lord of Spades, living in the dark city on a lake? Or maybe...

Re: DAY 36

[electricflock]

Was... one that started with deities, not people.

Re: DAY 36

[finalbows]

_{[ oh. ]}

That one...

_{[ hand no longer going splish splash in the water. ]}
That one... really doesn't have an ending yet.

Re: DAY 36

[electricflock]

Want to know what I thought about it?

Re: DAY 36

[finalbows]

<sub>[ fizzling moment of oh boy. what am I about to hear. it's one thing to touch on "a story of his life about deities," and quite a bit another to see what actually trickled through. What Muffin... did, think of it.


he has no magnet feeling of premonition, this time. he's completely in the dark. ]</sub>

Yes.

Re: DAY 36

[electricflock]

I said it was a sad story. You said it was boring one. And said it derailed into a spin-off before it could end.

[stops preening angel devil's hair to take his slack hand, raising it up to kiss his fingertips]

I said spin-off was about my favorite character.

1/2

[finalbows]

<sub>[ he can't even remember this happening right now but I need to juxtapose it here at this exact moment:

]</sub>

2/2

[finalbows]

...!

<sub>[ "what do you call this emotion...? happiness...? or despair...?"

ah, he remembers thinking something like those words, suddenly. they really feel appropriate.

he really should have gotten in the tub before now, so that he could have sunk under the water or something. blamed the flush on the heat. good gracious. this does not normally happen to him. ]</sub>

Oh.

[electricflock]

[he can't blame it on anything and he can't hide it. muffin's attention is caught by angel devil's expression as surely as the show had it before.

a small squeeze of his hand and fingers brushing across his cheek. bend down?]

[finalbows]

_{[ bends down. There's no way he's getting crashed over with that intensive feeling without following along after to tune. ]}

[electricflock]

[kisses him softly on the mouth, then rests their foreheads together with a small sigh]

...it was a nice night. The stories weren't good, but was happy being there with you.

[finalbows]

_{[ boop.
no candy-apple flavor this time. ]}

How greedy of my past self to keep a memory like that all to himself...

...


Gunpowder.

[electricflock]

Gunpowder?

[finalbows]

...for some reason, I feel like...

That night you're talking about... did... the air smell like gunpowder, that night?

_{[ from the fireworks show, though he doesn't remember that was why. ]}

[electricflock]

Yeah, little bit.

We were um, sitting by the fountain. Like this.

[chitters and coaxes to get Angel Devil sitting on the edge of the bath with him in that figure-8]

[finalbows]

<sub>[ lets his tail sink into the water behind them as they sit...

He leans in with more cuddly ease than he had, the night it really happened. He finds himself looking up toward the ceiling, and...

Two round glowing lights show up, near the ceiling. Angel Devil didn't so much as lift a finger in the casting; he's too busy making that all-important 8 shape!! ]</sub>

Were the moons... there? Or...

<sub>[ they drift along a bit to the left. ]

here...? No... that's still not quite... I still can't remember...</sub>

[electricflock]

[whistles, oh wow! muffin's soon outright cuddling instead of just repeating the pose, leaning against angel devil's shoulder and cheeping at the moons as they move]

Um... maybe there? Or higher, was getting late. I don't remember that part exactly either.

[finalbows]

Heheh. Then let's put them... here.

_{[ sometimes, you have to make compromises. ]}

...
I remember what it looks like around the fountain, of course. Ah...

That... might be about it.

[electricflock]

It feels right.

[with the moons placed, muffin sends a spark through the bathroom’s lights to dim them down. a little more nighttime now!]

[finalbows]

Ah-hah, that's more like it.

[electricflock]

[chitters]

One difference still: we didn’t swim in fountain.

Want your bath now?

[finalbows]

_{[ he was in fact just weighing the pros and cons of simply leaning back and falling right in there while still holding onto Muffin, but. no thorns, just yet, he thinks. it's about the balance. ]}

It's now or never! ...I did leave the rest of Rose on a bit of a sudden note. They'll keep. But I might wanna be just a tiny bit timely with my relaxation.

[electricflock]

Did also have, um, half of Daffodil see us come in here. But might chalk time up to luxuriating.

[gives angel devil’s arm a squeeze, then untangles to stand up]

[finalbows]

Ohh, nooo, scaaandaloussss☆.

_{[ slips off into the water ♡ ]}

[electricflock]

[laughs, repeating the “ohh nooo” with a birdy sliding whistle, and steps around to turn the water off and start the hot tub jets. still chittering,]

Mind if I join you?