forum When night falls, when dawn breaks; the veil tears, the Earth shakes. // One on One // OPEN

Started September 02, 2019 by @croccin-champagne

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Jin shrugged. "And why not? They can't hurt me. Or I guess they could, but they wouldn't live long afterwards." He made a face. "And if it's because you're worried about my reputation…don't be."

“They wouldn’t have much of a reason to hurt you. You’re right though, it is your reputation I’m worried about.” Miyaki murmured, wrinkling her nose at a pesky bit of wire for a moment. “Sleeping with me is somewhat worse than sleeping with an animal, Jin. At least in their eyes.”

Jin shrugged. "Who says I care about my reputation? And eww. They need to get their heads out of their asses." He wrinkled his nose. "I might sleep with you, but I wouldn't sleep with a horse. That's gross. And you're very different from an animal."

“Why don’t you?” Miyaki asked, biting her lip as she fiddled with the bulb. “Not to them, I’m not.” She sounded resigned to that fact, like she’d heard it so many times she might have thought it was true. “I’m human. Or, they think I am, and that’s…to them, that’s akin with an animal.”

"I don't care because…my reputation so far has been built on what I've done, not…who my parents are or who I've slept with." Jin replied wiith a shrug. "Most people are afraid of me. Because I'm the High Lord of the Night Court, and powerful besides." He sighed. "You aren't an animal, Miyaki. I can't speak for other humans, as I haven't met any, but…" He shrugged. "You aren't."

Miyaki hummed thoughtfully, finishing her adjustments of the bulb. Tapping the glass two times, her face lit up at the same time the bulb did, somewhat childlike in joy. “You really think so? I kind of want to kiss you right now.” She admitted, almost shyly as she twisted to look down at him.

Jin grinned at her. "I do. You can kiss me if you want." He replied with a smile, still holding her up carefully.

Miyaki snorted, shifting fully to face him, leaving her back to the trunk of the ‘tree’. “I was more asking if you wanted to.” She said, blowing a few strands of hair out of her face with a puff of breath.

Jin shrugged. "Sure." He replied, looking at her. He was still holding her up gently, hands braced on her body to keep her upright and keep her from falling.

Rolling her eyes, Miyaki lowered her head, pressing a light kiss to his cheek, then the corner of his mouth. “Way to encourage a girl.” She teased, before pressing her lips fully to his. Her hands settled on his shoulders, bracing herself.

He chuckled softly, and kissed her back, still supporting her with his hands. "Mm. Would you rather I have tackled you to the ground and kissed you?" He replied. He wondered what the other two in the room made of them, but didn't really care either way.

“I, personally, would much rather you didn’t.” Aster chimed in before Miyaki could stutter a response, stepping out from the hidey-hole library in the corner. “You might break something, her or one of the non-living things lying around.”

“Mm, he’s probably right.” Miyaki agreed, almost sounding reluctant to as she bumped her nose with Jin’s. Orion was nowhere to be found, as though he had disappeared completely or left, though the door hadn’t opened.

Jin laughed softly. "I thought as much." He smiled lightly at Miyaki, then turned to look at Aster. "And…not to be rude, but who are you? I would assume you know who I am already, but if I need to introduce myself, I will." He shrugged.

“Aster Evansien, your Majesty.” Aster greeted, pulling the pair of safety goggles from his eyes as he bowed. “We, uh, technically met in the gardens, when Miyaki and I spooked you with that flash grenade. Sorry about that, by the way.”

"Ah, right." Jin nodded. "It's fine. I don't mind being spooked every now and again." He chuckled softly, shrugging a little. "So, are you the mastermind behind this?" He gestured around.

“You could say that.” Aster said with a nod, pausing to sneeze before continuing. “I’m the brains, Orion is the brawn.”

“Brains, sure.” Miyaki said sarcastically, raising an eyebrow over at Aster. “Weren’t you the one who tried to attach a filibuster ligament to a 418 mikehoster?” Aster groaned, dragging a hand down his face.

“I though it was a karvestor!”

Jin chuckled. "I see." He replied, nodding a little. "Well. Brains or no, you seem to have ideas." He gently set Miyaki down, making sure she was steady on her feet before letting go.

"Ha! See, the High Lord thinks I'm not a waste of space." Aster said, sticking his tongue out at Miyaki as he pointed at her. Turning to rifle through papers, his pointed ears twitched slightly, the metal piercings lining them catching the light.

"I never said you were a waste of space, just that you were stupid. There's a difference." Miyaki countered, blowing a kiss in return to his tongue. "Hey Jin, d'you want to put a bulb on? I've got a box of 'em over here!"

Jin chuckled softly, then looked at Miyaki. "Hm? Oh. Sure. I might need some help knowing how to do it, though." He replied, shaking his head a little. "So." He grabbed a bulb. "Teach me." He smiled teasingly.

"Glady. Let me see your bulb real quick." Miyaki held out her hands, taking the bulb gently from him to examine it. Something flickered across her expression for a moment, something like wistfulness, before it was replaced by her thinking face just as quick. "Interesting pick. This one's pretty easy to add on though. Pick a spot?"

Jin raised an eyebrow slightly at her expression, but nodded. "Alright." He looked around, and found a spot within reach. "There." He said, gesturing.

"Perfect." Miyaki handed it back to him, motioning for him to hold it up. "The goal is to get the wires to connect with the little silver thing just inside the bulb, right? And then you want it to stay. The hardest part is getting it to stay, but that's what those teeny holes there are for. I have hooks to keep the thing in place."

Jin nodded. "Okay." He followed her instructions, reaching up to insert the bulb. He sighed softly, and pushed the bulb in carefully, doing each step she had said. "I think I got it?" He stepped back, looking over at Miyaki with raised eyebrows.

Miyaki stepped closer to the thing, just a bit too close to Jin. “Can you lift me again? I can’t see the connectors on the other side. You got it on this side thought, and the wires look in place.”

Jin nodded, and picked her up gently, holding her up so she could see. While he did that, he looked around the workshop curiously, eyes flickering over everything. He wondered what had happened the the second man that had been in here.

“Thanks.” Miyaki said, patting his arms with a smile before setting to work inspecting the bulb. “Missing a hook back here. Where are my-“

“Tweezers?” A voice said right next to them, the tweezers in question placing themselves into Miyaki’s hand as she blinked in surprise, looking around the empty space the voice had come from.

“Orion?”

Jin frowned, blinking. "Wait…what?" He said slowly. About the voice from thin air, not the hook. "Who…?" He raised his eyebrows, looking around carefully. "Who's Orion?" He asked Miyaki. The second guy? Then how is he…invisible?

“That’d be me.” The voice said again, as a man materialized right next to them, a small ear peace in hand. “Orion Evansien. A pleasure, your majesty.” He turned a grin on Miyaki, who was snickering. “It works now, you were right about the yhelm.”

“I’m always right. I can’t believe you got it to work though! Who charged it? Is that your magic filling up the meter?”

Jin jumped a little, blinking and looking at Orion. He grimaced. "Well then." He looked at them, shaking his head a little bit, then looked around the room again.

"It is. It's bending the light around me to make it look like I'm not there." Orion said, nodding as he moved to set the device on a table cluttered with what looked like prototypes of the same thing, and a shoe. "Your Majesty, pardon for asking, but I'm kind of curious. What are your inventors like in your Court?"