Day 321 | A Walkabout

[twinked_witch]

Who: Megaera, OPEN
Open: Open
When: Day 321, pretty much all day
Where: Various places around the Bastion
What: Emo Megaera Is Emo
Format: Action or Prose, your choice
Warnings: None


Megaera had been thinking about things recently. About where the Bastion was headed, and what hope that might entail. While she'd come to accept that her former world was lost - and her world before that in turn, almost assuredly - it was still difficult to accept some of the things that were lost.

People were one thing. But the knowledge lost - and how much of the world's magic was going to be possibly forever crippled by not having enough arcane energy to cast more than three times per day without special tonics... That hurt more than anything. To someone who placed her identity as a wizard first and moremost, the idea of an entire world's development being lost - so much beyond her ability to know what to ask for, let alone to comprehend and use it - was really starting to get to her.

So she walked. Through the new forest, to the hot springs, to the very edges of the Bastion, out on her usual shard run... She'd been moving basically nonstop.

Where might you run into her?

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[heptagram]

Patchouli didn't need a hand, but she appreciated the offer, smiling at Megaera's closeness a little, too. She leads Megaera all the way back to her room at the top floor of the library.

[twinked_witch]

Megaera definitely seemed to feel better as she was loosely led along by Patchouli, glad to be allowed up to Patchouli's quarters finally.

"... A nice design you have, for sure," Megaera observed, as she looked along the furnishings.

[heptagram]

"Thank you very much," Patchouli replied, sitting down on the edge of her bed.

She wasn't exactly sure why she hadn't invited Megaera to her room. Maybe she just didn't have a good chance because they talked so much outside.

[twinked_witch]

Megaera chuckled, sliding over and sitting next to Patchouli. "... Quiet, too. Away from things. That's nice."

[heptagram]

"That's exactly what I was going for," Patchouli replied. "I personally prefer quiet places." But maybe Megaera had slightly different ideas?

[twinked_witch]

Megaera nodded. "Hrm. But a guest sometimes could be nice. Someone who respects the library's quiet as much as you?"

[heptagram]

"Perhaps," she responded, before drawing a conclusion that she... may have just been jumping to.

"... someone like you?"

[twinked_witch]

Megaera chuckled, hugging Patchouli. "If that's what you want, of course."

[heptagram]

"I wouldn't mind if you were around a little more often," she stated. Megaera was definitely the person she was closest to, after all.

[twinked_witch]

Megaera quietly hugged Patchouli. "That's... Good to hear. On a lot of levels."

On one hand, Megaera knew how hot she was, how much she was a form of desire incarnate. But to hear someone want her on a more intellectual level... That was nice. It reminded her of good things.

[heptagram]

Look, if that's what Megaera wanted out of her, she might actually get it. But Patchouli would still appreciate her on that intellectual level.

"I'm just... not used to having guests, is all."

[twinked_witch]

"I'm glad you've let me be the exception to that, Patchouli. Seriously." Megaera held the hug, her smile growing a bit.

"It's not easy being social. But if you can be alone with one person, together, that's good enough, right?"

[heptagram]

"It is for me," she replied. "I'll take good results from something on a small scale well ahead of vast planes of mediocrity."

She's back to resting her head on Meg's shoulder.

[twinked_witch]

"Sounds like a good plan to me," Megaera half-purred, leaning in a bit to let Patchouli comfortably rest on her. "Just two bookworms and some time. Who needs more?"

[heptagram]

"Precisely," Patchouli agreed cheerfully. "I mean, it seems so rare to find someone so passionate about my interests as I..."

[twinked_witch]

"Passionate enough to do some really crazy things in the name of focusing more on them, you mean?", Megaera said with a chuckle.

[heptagram]

"Something like that," she said. "Even without doing anything terribly unusual, though, either, I... guess..."

[twinked_witch]

Megaera chuckled, twisting to wrap her arms around Patchouli.

"That's pretty much how I feel, yeah. Just... Wanting someone I can genuinely be with."

[heptagram]

"Well... I guess it's a good thing I'm here," Patchouli replied. "Right?"

[twinked_witch]

Megaera just nodded, her head nuzzled against Patchouli's lightly.

"Yeah..."

[heptagram]

Megaera was probably the first person Patchouli could really say she actually loved.

"So, I guess, if you ever need anything..." Of course, the problem with the above meant she was, of course, extremely awkward.

[twinked_witch]

"And the same to you."

Megaera nodded, hugging Patchouli a bit tighter... Before lightly kissing her on the cheek.

"Really."

[heptagram]

Patchouli hadn't... quite expected the kiss, she supposed, and she started to blush a little.

"... I love you, Megaera," she finally mentioned.

[twinked_witch]

"I love you too, Patchouli," Megaera said, turning to kiss her full on the lips this time.