forum Glitches // OxO // Closed

Started November 27, 2019 by @ElderGod-Icefire

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Jude shrugged, looking up at the tall displays. "I dunno. Just a thought," He said, smiling as they made their way past exhibits, "What do you think about em?"

Nyx shrugged. "They're…I don't know. I like them." he replied with a soft smile, looking up at Jude.

"Oh yeah?" Jude prompted, smiling as he pressed a brief kiss on Nyx's cheek, eager to hear what he thought, "What d'you like about them? It's the sheer size of them for me. The few right here could trample a bodega without a second thought."

Nyx shrugged. "I don't know. They're just…interesting, I guess." he replied, smiling as he looked over at Jude. He leaned his head on Jude's shoulder.

"Mhm, they are," Jude smiled, reflexively letting his arm slide around Nyx's waist as they walked through the museum, "And you were pretty excited to be here." He nodded at a group of schoolchildren grinning up at a tall display, "You looked like them; it was cute."

Nyx wrinkled his nose. "But I'm bigger than them." he pointed out. "And I'm not…I'm not a child, either." he frowned faintly, looking up at Jude.

Jude let out a soft laugh, smiling as he shook his head. "No– I meant your face," He said, pressing a soft kiss on Nyx's cheek, "You smile real wide, it's sweet." He thought of the field, the zoo, The Met, and all the smiles that had followed. "Like whatever your smiling at is this great and wonderful thing."

"Oh." He replied. "Well–" he shrugged his shoulders faintly, glancing at Jude for a moment, unsure what to say.

Jude shrugged, smiling as he glanced at a wide display of fossils, "I dunno. You have nice smile, is all I'm sayin'" He said, looking down a little shyly.

Nyx shrugged a little again, ducking his head to hide his smile. "Oh. Okay." he said, pressing a kiss to Jude's cheek.

Jude, smiled, playfully rolling his eyes as he turned to glance at an exhibit, "C'mon, what else d'you wanna see?" He asked, nodding at an iconed map of the museum, "More dinosaurs or something else?"

Nyx hummed quietly. "I wanna see everything." he replied, looking over at Jude with wide, excited eyes. "Please? If we have time?"

Jude took his phone out of his pocket, noticing a few excited-looking texts from his friends as he checked the time. "Yeah, we got time," He nodded, glancing back at the map, "You wanna go through the….Planetary Science Hall, or The Environmental Hall first?"

"Ooh…I don't know." He said, looking up at Jude. "Which do you think we should do?" He asked, leaning into Jude's shoulder.

"Mm, you always make me choose," Jude playfully remarked, his gaze travelling over the wide expanse of the museum grounds. Different exhibit halls were scattered in a few main groups, and he narrowed his eyes at the one closest to them, "How 'bout the planet one? They've got lots of meteors and stuff about crystals."

"Okay!" he replied, heading towards the planet one and tugging on Jude's hand to get him to follow.

Jude let out a soft laugh as Nyx pulled him along, glancing back at the dinosaur displays before they found themselves in a new hall of exhibits, with sleek modern finishings and spotlights on the widespread arrangements of rocks.

Nyx grinned happily, looking around at the exhibits curiously, his eyes big and happy.

"Mm, look—" Jude said, smiling as he pointed to a rough-looking shape that people were surrounding, taking pictures and reading about. "I think that's a meteorite; a pretty big one at that."

Nyx let out a faint "ooo", coming closer to it so he could read the plaques and see more information about it.

Jude smiled as he walked around the silver rock, glancing down at the plaque of information. "Hmm," He sounded, tapping a rough edge of the meteorite, "It says this one is almost as old as the sun."

Nyx stared at it for a moment, cockign his head a little. "Wow…" he breathed, looking at it carefully.

"Mhm," Jude chirped, nodding and running a finger down the board of information as he skimmed through the short paragraphs, "Four and a half billion years old. Isn't that wild?"

He nodded, still looking curiously at it for a moment, then down at the information board, reading it.

"Thirty-four tons of iron," Jude murmured, walking around the meteorite, which was just about as tall as him, "—Hurling through space."