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[kitai]

Kitai backs through the flap/door into Milliways, her arms wrapped around Tavi as she continues kissing him. She's half shrugged out of her tunic already, reaching back with her foot to find the small cot she expects is back there.

When it's not, and when the sound of clinking glasses and scattered conversations make it to her ears, she reluctantly breaks the kiss and looks around.

"Oh, here again?" she says with more amusement than surprise.

Tavi's cheeks go scarlet and he pushes Kitai's tunic back up hastily. "Apparently so."

"The beds are warmer here, at least," the Marat girl says with a smirk, starting to drag him toward the stairs.

Tavi gives a token protest before following, but the smell of all the different foods makes him reconsider. "Maybe a hot meal before the warm bed?" he offers. "It's not as if we don't have the time, now."

Kitai considers picking him up and carrying him to a room, but instead gives a little resigned sigh and gestures toward a table. "As you wish, chala."

[ooc: two pups, two muns, have at!]

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[calderon-crow.livejournal.com]

"That way, we won't have to come back down, er, afterwards?"

He does have some logic to postponing things.

[kitai]

"We would have to come back through this room to leave," Kitai points out. She doesn't stop going to the table, though. "You do have more energy when you have a full stomach, though. So perhaps it would not be such a bad idea after all."

[calderon-crow.livejournal.com]

He blushes red before shaking his head.

"Well, yes, but I meant that we'd be hungry after and this is less trips."

[kitai]

She nods. "As you say."

The little rat thing scurries over, obviously waiting for an order. Kitai looks at Tavi and arches a brow. "I will have whatever he has," she tells it.

[calderon-crow.livejournal.com]

He makes a little robust order, along with a side request for some bread for sandwiches for later.

"That satisfactory?"

[kitai]

"More than," she says, clearly pleased. "Your men are going to wonder if you start to gain weight, you know."

[calderon-crow.livejournal.com]

"As if I'd have the chance. Stress takes more off of me than this place could hope to add."

[kitai]

"You worry too much," Kitai says with a sudden seriousness. Then, she adds a moment later in her more characteristic tone, "There are better ways to lose that weight."

[calderon-crow.livejournal.com]

"I thought that was the point, after dinner," he says with a smile, some of the more boyish gleam in his eyes. He'd lost some of his childishness upon coming to command. More than he'd wanted to lose, to be honest.

[feminine-menace.livejournal.com]

There's a young woman familiar to both of them (granted, more to one than the other) sitting at a nearby table with a scattering of books and printouts before her. She's regarding the newly arrived pair with a huge, trying-so-hard-not-to-laugh grin.

[calderon-crow.livejournal.com]

He turns and gives her a raised eyebrow.

...no one was actually naked so he could pull it off.

"Yes?"

[feminine-menace.livejournal.com]

"Landlord's got a bitch of a sense of humor, don't he?"

She does, actually, feel kind of sorry for Scipio and his girlfriend. Amusement is just winning out over sympathy right now.

[kitai]

"On the contrary," Kitai says with a slight shrug. "The beds here are much nicer."

[feminine-menace.livejournal.com]

YT looks nervous for a second. "Oh, I remember you. You came in for the first time and freaked out a while back and I thought you were going to stab me for a bit there." She relaxes, shrugs, and grins again - still with amusement, but of a different quality. "No blushing. Gotta admire that. Although Scipio was red enough for the both of you," she adds, with a quick jerk of her head in his direction.

[kitai]

"He usually is," she remarks smugly. "Captain Scipio did not deign to inform me of this place, so I was quite unprepared. I must ask your pardon if you were upset by me."

[calderon-crow.livejournal.com]

"Captain Scipio gets called a mad man often enough," he points out. "Thank you."

[feminine-menace.livejournal.com]

"It's okay," YT says to Kitai. "First-time jitters. I didn't handle it so well myself. Besides, I got a friend who likes swords, so I'm used to seeing sharp pointy things.

"You know, if I'd known you were from the same world as Scipio, I'd have told you. I mean" - she looks a little doubtful - "you are, right? You didn't just meet here and fall head over heels or something?"

[nothawkingbird.livejournal.com]

Their behavior looked rather familiar to the young woman. Namely one of her and Will's favorite activities of late.

There was an fond smile on her face, having some understanding for another couple in love. Helped keep her mind on happier aspects.

[kitai]

Kitai gives the other woman a polite nod, not embarrassed in the least at her actions or the brief partial nudity.

[calderon-crow.livejournal.com]

Tavi, on the other hand, blushes red. For some reason, her lack of embarrassment brought it out in him.

[nothawkingbird.livejournal.com]

"It's all right. I don't mind. My boyfriend and I can be the same way sometimes," She gently explained as she smiled.

[kitai]

"Is your... boyfriend," Kitai asks, trying to wrap her mouth around the unfamiliar word, "also quite thick-headed, constantly requiring you to take the initiative?"

Kitai and tact are not exactly acquainted.

[calderon-crow.livejournal.com]

The blush gets worse.

"This is not the forum to be discussing this in."

[nothawkingbird.livejournal.com]

Kate snickered at that, "Thick headed on some things... not that actually."

She did add with a grin, "He does blush like that though."

[kitai]

Kitai smiles at that. "The best of both outcomes, then. You are fortunate."