2020-05-10: Making Strides
- Log: Making Strides
- Cast: Riesenlied, Noeline
- Where: Meria Boule
- Date: 10th May 2020
- Summary: Feeling low, Riesenlied cheers herself up for a recharge by baking cookies!
<Pose Tracker> Riesenlied has posed.
Riesenlied is feeling a bit low today, but rather than sit around and mope like some people typing this, she's decided to go all-out instead! Because MUSHing is a fantasy in which you get to do things.
She's dressed warmly today as she toils in front of an oven, and by the time she's done, she's approaching Noeline with a basket with a cloth and many checkerboard cookies and other cutely-shaped goodies over it.
"Sorry to make you wait," she charmedly says.
<Pose Tracker> Noeline has posed.
Noeline has definitely learnt a lot more about cooking than she once would have expected of herself, but her knowledge is certainly quite limited, focusing more around a rough-and-ready sort of approach that she'll tongue-in-cheek call the Wayside Way given she picked up most of it when they were establishing the orphanage.
Which means she looks quietly charmed as she chuckles to herself, making some space on the bench she's sat at to let Riesenlied sit down next to her. "It's quite alright. I wasn't exactly doing a great deal of importance," she notes with a laugh, tilting her head slightly towards the map she's been trying to sketch - a mildly-annotated diagram of the path she took around Aquvy decades ago, now added with names and addresses."Oh," she adds as she spies the shapes. "I never got the hang of doing anything like that."
<Pose Tracker> Riesenlied has posed.
There's definitely something even more affectionate with Riesenlied today, clinging close as her pink cheeks show themselves; she lifts one of the cookies and goes, "Aah..."
She chuckles faintly as she says, "I used templates, it was not a work of skill or anything."
She does peek towards the diagram a little, though.
<Pose Tracker> Noeline has posed.
"Nonsense," puffs Noeline in a protective fashion, leaning in to slip an arm around her partner. "I've used those same templates, and that ended up with a series of squiggly, lumpy bats. I still have yet to live that down with a couple of the kids," she puffs, but there's a warm smile on her face as she laughs.
Her cheeks flush just a little; there's a moment where she nearly glances around her, but she's more or less gotten over that habit and instead leans forwards. "Aah--" she echoes as she takesa bite, deliberately leaving some for Riesenlied to share, tilting her head to indicate that.
"--they're delightful, of course," she declares afterwards with a smile, looking up in time to catch Riesenlied's glance down at the map. "Ah. ... I'm kind of turning it into an address book, I suppose."
<Pose Tracker> Riesenlied has posed.
Riesenlied imagines that for a moment. "But a lumpy bat cookie does sound pretty appealing too..." she muses to herself. She leans forward as she gasps, "If it is a cookie Noeline made, of course I would eat it wholeheartedly..."
There is a positive smile as she nibbles one on her own, and she redoubles her cling. T-the rare, super-affectionate Riesenlied!!
"Hmm... it is very nice. I should do the same with my letters, do you think?"
<Pose Tracker> Noeline has posed.
With a soft laugh, Noeline raises her eyebrows. "Are you sure you want to promise that? Good intentions might end up harming you in the end," she teases herself, but smiles brightly as she watches Riesenlied try the rest. "Let me know next time, and I'll join you in cooking. Let's see if I can't pick up some tips along the way."
She tugs gently but insistently as her arms tighten, and then a little more - and Riesenlied ends up in Noeline's lap, a pair of arms around her as the other Hyadean hums in triumph. It might be rare of her, but Noeline wastes no time in quietly nuzzling in against Riese's hair, offering a light kiss in the middle of it.
"Honestly, I'm surprised you haven't already," she admits, looking at the map. "I thought I should, if only because I'd been in the habit of moving on for so long. Making sure I remember these things seemed important."
<Pose Tracker> Riesenlied has posed.
"If I were stopped because I was harmed because of good intentions, I would not be me, and you would be stressing a lot less," Riesenlied managed to tease back, even if there's an ounce of self-deprecation in there.
They shift a little, and suddenly she's been scooted up to Noeline's lap. There's certainly no complaint from Riesenlied, smiling wider as she sighs quietly into that kiss. "Aah... mm, it is important."
A pause, as she remarks a bit stammeringly, "Tease me a little more."
<Pose Tracker> Noeline has posed.
With a brighter laugh this time, the Crimson Noble grins wide enough to show her fangs. "Aah, that's true..." she muses as she closes her eyes where she's tucked slightly into Riesenlied's neck. "But whatever would I do with my days if I didn't worry and fuss over you? I don't remember how I managed to fill the time before that," she teases as requested, pairing it with another light kiss as she shares space.
She sneaks a second cookie, biting into it - and holding it in her teeth, as she leans forward to offer it to Riesenlied at the same time. "Aaah," she sounds around it, her eyes glittering a little with mischief.
She does hum a little afterwards, though, softening as she brushes a hand lazily against Riesenlied's back. "Feeling nostalgic?" she wonders after a comfortably brief silence before she hums playfully. "I hope I haven't become too complacent."
<Pose Tracker> Riesenlied has posed.
There's a quiet tremble from Riesenlied as she feels Noeline's fangs on her neck, giggling ever gently as she admits, "I am glad I... still have a bit of my neck that is not scaled, just for you."
A pause, as she turns the worry into something a bit lighter: "Though I am sure you would be able to find a way, even so." She chuckles as she turns her neck and gives a kiss back in turn towards Noeline, laughing softly as she plucks a cookie for herself.
"Perhaps a little. I want a recharge."
<Pose Tracker> Noeline has posed.
Noeline blinks for a moment, then a flicker of a furrow runs across her brow before she leans in to place a more deliberate kiss on Riesenlied's neck, savouring the motion for a long beat. "Don't think for even a moment that I am bothered by your scales," she huffs, taking care that the second kiss lands on top of one such patch.
"Hmm," she replies to the last comment, eyes closed again as she nestles into Riesenlied's back. Her fingers nudge just a little towards the base of the dragon's wings, but she keeps her touch light. "But I'm glad we've become that comfortable with each other, at the same time. ... it's easier to tease you when other people are around, I think," she muses, and grins impishly. "Ah, though of course I'd rather keep your grumps to myself."
<Pose Tracker> Riesenlied has posed.
There's a puff from Riesenlied as she seems to carry on her own play-acting still, saying, "It is not that. As a Crimson Bride, I must make myself certain I have soft flesh for you to nip upon, would I not?" It's rather obvious she's still steaming a bit at the roleplaying, though, especially as Noeline grants her another kiss.
"H-hmmph... do you not think I feel the same way?" she does say about teasing in public. She shifts a little to turn towards her, even as her stubs lift up a bit as Noeline's touch.
<Pose Tracker> Noeline has posed.
It takes a little moment, but it's possible to see Noeline's shoulders relax as she recognizes that Riesenlied is play-acting her role as a Crimson Bride, rather than being truly worried over her scaling. The Hyadean huffs a little at her own behaviour in turn, chiding herself a little for being so quick to jump to concern - but she breaks into a grin as she tosses her hair. "Do you really think a Crimson Noble would not be so magnaminous towards her Bride?" she wonders.
"Aah... but it would be a little unfair to keep you all to myself, I suppose," she muses in the midst of another light kiss, grinning as she pairs it with a nip at the corner of Riesenlied's mouth. "Or perhaps I should say, I can't help but be proud when it comes to getting you to open up a little more." ... is what she says, but there's still mischief in her eyes.
<Pose Tracker> Riesenlied has posed.
Riesenlied laughs rather lightly and says, "I am taking all the feedback and lessons from the last year to mind, hmm?" She reclines gently and sighs softly, saying, "I do not want to become someone who strains herself so hard she falls over. And that means being able to laugh and enjoy things time to time."
She laces her hands with Noeline's and squeezes them gently. "Opening up a bit more... hmm, do you think I have made strides?"