It's been a long day, and she's sitting up against one of the walls of the one of the only caves they've found free of any imps. He's keeping watch at the mouth of it, and she's busying herself with the puzzle of the odd shapes scratched into the wall above when she feels someone slip in next to her.
She looks down, noticing it's Cheriour, and he looks awfully weary. But he suddenly digs into his pocket and pulls out what looks to be a fancy pocket watch and smiles, voice gentle.
"Hey, Avispa...I know you're into puzzles and all. Check this out." And she watches as his long fingers twist the back of the watch off, and she can't help but give a little gasp when he turns it around to show her its interior.
Because there, it's like another world, where gears and parts she didn't even know the name of twisted against each other in perfect unison and yet somehow never skipped a beat or never made a mistake. It all moves so fast that she can't keep up, and she can feel her heart start to beat as her mind rushes to figure out just how everything in there is even existing like that. What a puzzle. What a marvelous puzzle he's found.
But that's not all. Because he smiles over at her, and starts pointing at the different swirling gold pieces of metal, naming them one by one in words that sound foreign and strange to her ears. And then he moves onto how they function, and then how they are twisting each other like that and even though she is upset at having such an opportunity for solving that puzzle taken away, she can't help but be lulled in by the level tone of his voice.
And then he stops, and she blinks at him, eyes wide with all this new information. "This is how it works on the inside," he says with finality, and after a long pause, he leans over and kisses her tenderly.
Before she can even react to what he is doing, he's detached himself from her. He stands up and pockets the watch, and his face is filled with an emotion she doesn't recognize as he goes back to the spot at the mouth of the cave which he had before.
No, she thinks. No, he did give her a puzzle and took it away from her by explaining what it was, but he had revealed a whole other puzzle instead.
I want to know how he works on the inside, she thinks.
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She looks down, noticing it's Cheriour, and he looks awfully weary. But he suddenly digs into his pocket and pulls out what looks to be a fancy pocket watch and smiles, voice gentle.
"Hey, Avispa...I know you're into puzzles and all. Check this out." And she watches as his long fingers twist the back of the watch off, and she can't help but give a little gasp when he turns it around to show her its interior.
Because there, it's like another world, where gears and parts she didn't even know the name of twisted against each other in perfect unison and yet somehow never skipped a beat or never made a mistake. It all moves so fast that she can't keep up, and she can feel her heart start to beat as her mind rushes to figure out just how everything in there is even existing like that. What a puzzle. What a marvelous puzzle he's found.
But that's not all. Because he smiles over at her, and starts pointing at the different swirling gold pieces of metal, naming them one by one in words that sound foreign and strange to her ears. And then he moves onto how they function, and then how they are twisting each other like that and even though she is upset at having such an opportunity for solving that puzzle taken away, she can't help but be lulled in by the level tone of his voice.
And then he stops, and she blinks at him, eyes wide with all this new information. "This is how it works on the inside," he says with finality, and after a long pause, he leans over and kisses her tenderly.
Before she can even react to what he is doing, he's detached himself from her. He stands up and pockets the watch, and his face is filled with an emotion she doesn't recognize as he goes back to the spot at the mouth of the cave which he had before.
No, she thinks. No, he did give her a puzzle and took it away from her by explaining what it was, but he had revealed a whole other puzzle instead.
I want to know how he works on the inside, she thinks.