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"Yeah! I mean, I already promised I'd help you, at least a little. Might as well while we're here, right?" Tohru replied, "I mean, tonight you helped me cook a bit. While you didn't do any of the seasoning, you didn't let anything burn. So that's a start."
Davin nodded a little. "Yeah, but I had someone teaching me and right there to make sure I didn't do anything wrong." he pointed out with a smile.
"But again, just a start. You have to work your way up. It's not like I was a natural and started out in the kitchen unattended. For a while, my mother wouldn't even let me help at all."
He laughed a little bit.
"And then she'd get upset if I left too much of a mess or anything like that, and ban me again for a while."
"I mean…yeah." he replied with a shrug, laughing a little bit at Tohru's story.
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"So, Davin. Do you remember much about Kaythani food at all?" Tohru asked, fiddling with his fork a bit.
He shot a glance over, hoping it was okay to talk about.
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"Mm…bits and pieces. I don't know. I remember my mom cooking it, but…not what exactly she was cooking." he replied slowly.
"I see… I was just curious about what kind of flavors, or ingredients, or that sort of thing, that you guys used," Tohru said, "It's all very interesting."
"Yeah. I…" he ran his hands through his hair. "I don't know."
"That's alright, of course," Tohru said, "We can always see if we can research that. It's just interesting what you can tell about a people by the food they eat."
He gave a faint smile. "Yeah. We can look it up, I just…don't remember very well."
"I mean, I don't necessarily imagine you would. Some things stick a bit differently in your mind than others," Tohru said.
He finished his plate, then got up to take it to the sink.
"Yeah." Golden skies and death. He closed his eyes for a moment, then got up to take care of his plate.
After cleaning his plate, Tohru put it away.
"I'm probably going to try to wind down for the evening," he said, "I wanted to go ahead to that interview early tomorrow, just to get it over with."
"Yeah, alright. I think I might stay up a bit longer, but I'll try not to wake you, alright?" He replied.
"Okay. Even if you do, I don't really care that much," Tohru replied, "but I appreciate the consideration."
He grabbed his sketchbook and went to sit in bed for a bit.
"Alright. Of course." Davin got out his device and started to read, humming faintly to himself.
Tohru started back again at his drawing of Davin. Yet somehow, he found he was doing better now, even from memory. He put a few pencil strokes past some of the lines from earlier, and he erased the mistakes.
Slowly, he found himself nodding off while at work, and he closed the book and set it aside before drifting off finally.
Davin eventually came to bed, being as quiet as possible while he changed into pajamas and crawled under the blankets.
Tohru stirred a bit, but he didn't fully wake. He tugged at the blankets a bit, not quite enough to uncover Davin, but just enough to effectively cocoon himself in. His hair flowed over the pillow and sheets, a bit tangled, but otherwise fine.
Davin smiled softly as he looked over at Tohru, then lay down, tucking the blankets around his body and closing his eyes.
Tohru slept soundly for a few hours, but after that, he kept waking up, with an odd nervous sensation edging its way from his core to his fingertips and toes. He laid there, wide awake. He found himself looking over at Davin, almost as a source of comfort. Yet he wasn't sure the other's presence comforted him. After all, if Tohru hadn't messed up so royally, they wouldn't be here at all.
Davin fell asleep rather easily, and mostly stayed asleep, curled up on his side with his tail wound around his legs.
After laying awake for a while, Tohru got up to get some water, then laid back in bed, unfortunately still wide awake and restless. He looked to Davin again. At least he hadn't accidentally woken him up with all his movement. Tohru rolled over and scrolled through his device.
Davin shifted just a little, but didn't wake up.
Tohru laid awake for a while like that, but eventually fell asleep with his device in his hand still. The glow of the screen went off.