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“Kanaya! Come get tea!” Rose called from their kitchen, sticking tea bags into near boiling water.
“I’ll be down in a minute! Let me finish the stitching on the choker,” Kanaya called back, never pausing in her stitching. The black, lace choker would stretch down onto Rose’s chest, stopping just at the dip on her chest with a purple teardrop shaped gem. This might be the most beautiful full set Kanaya had ever made in her own opinion.
“Hey, I’ve got tea. I thought we might as well eat our brunch out here,” A voice emerged from the doorway of the girl’s balcony where Kanaya was currently lounging in. Rose, setting down the tray supplied with tea and brunch onto the small outside table. The table itself was of stained glass and metal. When the light shone on it, the colors danced onto the balcony: truly a beautiful sight. The chairs that resided next to it were quite similar, the difference being that they did not have stained glass, but the metal was weaving in and out of intricate patterns. The girls had roped warm vanilla fairy lights around the chairs and around the safety railing. The two had a few potted vegetable plants (supplied by Jade) tucked away neatly against the wall of the house and the safety rail.
“I suppose that we could eat brunch out here. It is a quite nice day.”
“That’s exactly what I was thinking. Plus, I didn’t think you would get done with that choker anytime soon. You only just started on it,” Rose chuckled, placing herself onto the chair facing Kanaya, the table in between them.
“I hate to admit, but that is true,” Kanaya laughed, reaching to one of the plates and the salt shaker.
“How has the dress been going?”
“For having measured that fabric only a week ago, and this being a complicated work, I would say it’s going terrific.”
“That’s good. I take it you still won’t tell me what this is for?”
“Of course,” Kanaya said bluntly, putting to choker onto the table so she could eat. “This is good.”
“I’m glad you think that. I tried a new recipe that Roxy sent me. Apparently it’s one that Jane made before that game started.”
“Oh, I thought she was strictly a baker?”
“I did too, but she did have to eat things other than pastries to, you know, live,” Rose chuckled, spreading butter on a golden-brown piece of toast.
The two sat in a comfortable silence for the rest on the meal, relishing in the morning sun, Kanaya slightly glowing. Rose, upon seeing the two were done with their meals, put the pitch of fruit water off of the tray, before stashing the tray underneath the table until the two wanted to head inside.
“It’s a nice day out,” Kanaya said, breaking the silence.
“It is. I bet Jade is working in her greenhouse right now,”
“And I bet Nepeta is having a wonderful time frollicing in the grass...or something.”
“I just hope she doesn’t kill someone’s dog,”
“A what?”
“It’s a four legged mammal that a lot of people like to own as pets? Like Bec, in a way. Bec was a weird dog. A good dog, but a weird one. How about I just show you a picture…” Rose said, pulling her phone, and searching “dog” on Google.
“But why would it be a problem if she killed one?”
“Well, if there is a dog, it’s probably someone’s pet.”
Noticing Kanaya’s still confused face, Rose clarified, “A pet is an animal the humans keep around to be part of the family. Humans usually hold great sentimental value to their pets.”
“Oh. It would be an awful to have it taken away...or eaten.”
“It would majorly suck. Like my cat, Jaspers. When he died I was sad. But now he isn’t dead, so that’s something.”
“Oh,” Rose continued, “here is what a normal dog looks like,”
The picture on the screen was a smiling golden retriever looking eagerly at the camera.
“Cute,” Kanaya replied shortly
“I’m not much of a dog person, more of a cat person.”
“I wasn’t aware my wife was a furry,” Kanaya teased, “maybe I should consult Jade on how to deal with your furryism!”
“Yes, and I’ll consult Stephenie Meyer on how to deal with my wife’s vampirism,”
“Hmm, what is it called a “Werewolf”? Does that mean that you’re a werecat? Either way, I’m afraid that our love is forbidden since I am the human equivalent of a “vampire”.”
“Woe, must I love a loathed enemy like you!”
“I am afraid that this loathed enemy loves you too,”
“Well then,” Rose said, getting close to Kanaya’s face, “I guess we’ll have to run away together,”
Kanaya closed the gap, pecking Rose’s lips before laughing and standing up, stretching her long arms above her heads. “You’re cute, love.”
“As are you, beautiful,” Rose replied, getting the tray from underneath the table and standing up, grabbing the water pitcher and heading to the kitchen.
“I’ll get it!” Kanaya called, scooping the tray and pitcher out of Rose’s hands before rushing off to the kitchen to wash them. Rose entered the kitchen soon after Kanaya placed the dishes to dry.
“Are you packed? We should leave for Roxy and Calliope’s soon to get there by two,”
“Yeah, I’m ready, let me just get dressed into something else and we can leave.”
“Okay, I’ll be in the lounge if you need me,”
Rose left, the room, walking to their lounge area. The area itself had plants hanging on a window ledge planted. Walking over to the window, she closed and locked it. Assuring that there would be nobody breaking in through that window. Rose suddenly turned her attention to something else. ‘I should turn the lights off…’ Rose thought, walking out to the balcony and switching off the warm fairy lights.
“Rose?” She heard Kanaya call from the lounge.
“I’m right here,” Rose said, walking back to the lounge, turning off any lights she saw still on on the way, “I just went to turn off the lights.”
“Okay. I’m ready, so we can leave now.”
“Well then, let’s go get you a god-tier!” Rose smiled, grabbing her wife’s hand and leading her out the door.