"Oh, fuckin' blushberries," Tal groaned, his smile faltering towards a grimace. "Don't even get me started!" But Koa's perspicacity a word Tal would have to ask Hotaru about later quickly had the grin back on his face as he nodded. "Yeah, actually, it did. Oh! Caramel macchiato, please," he asked as a server swept by. She took his order with a nod and headed off to a nearby table.
The courier somehow managed to look even more full of himself as his chest puffed out at Thorn's teasing. "What, all of it?" he teased back, reaching into his bag to pull out the goods. All three boxes landed on the table in front of him, but he pushed two of them towards his two friends, looking entirely too pleased with himself. Koa's box, beneath the simple bow on it, contained the copper armlet the Dragoon had been eying so wistfully, while Thorn's box, with an identical bow, held a drop earring with strands of small tiger's eye stones that glinted in the light like the highlights in his hair.
Or Koa's eyes, but that was probably just a coincidence.
The third box he opened so they could see the bracelet they had helped pick out. "You, uh, y'can take 'em back if y'don't like 'em." His confidence faltered as he suddenly realized how much he might have overstepped. "Just... y'know. Thanks for bein'... here. An'friends'n'stuff," he added in an awkward rush, ears warming to a pink shade of tan as he fiddled with the bracelet.
The courier somehow managed to look even more full of himself as his chest puffed out at Thorn's teasing. "What, all of it?" he teased back, reaching into his bag to pull out the goods. All three boxes landed on the table in front of him, but he pushed two of them towards his two friends, looking entirely too pleased with himself. Koa's box, beneath the simple bow on it, contained the copper armlet the Dragoon had been eying so wistfully, while Thorn's box, with an identical bow, held a drop earring with strands of small tiger's eye stones that glinted in the light like the highlights in his hair.
Or Koa's eyes, but that was probably just a coincidence.
The third box he opened so they could see the bracelet they had helped pick out. "You, uh, y'can take 'em back if y'don't like 'em." His confidence faltered as he suddenly realized how much he might have overstepped. "Just... y'know. Thanks for bein'... here. An'friends'n'stuff," he added in an awkward rush, ears warming to a pink shade of tan as he fiddled with the bracelet.
