forum Glitches // OxO // Closed

Started November 27, 2019 by @ElderGod-Icefire

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Jude found himself a lazy smile, "You pet enough animals yet?" He asked, crouching down to touch the fur of a particularly large rabbit.

Nyx shook his head, reaching down to pick up a smaller rabbit, holding it and petting it gently. "I've hardly petted any."

"Hm, show 'em some love," Jude smiled, trying to calculate just how much trouble he'd get in for sneaking a rabbit out of the zoo. He knew of a few people who'd been arrested for attempting to smuggle penguins out, so he thought better of it. "I had a rabbit once, when I was a kid." He chuckled, "It died of shock, not too long after I got it."

Nyx blinked, a little horrified. "Wha– why?" he asked, staring at Jude and looking disturbed, though why he did it wasn't clear. After all, the cyborg male had literally been created to kill; why would the death of a rabbit bother him so much?

Jude shrugged, not aware of his uneasiness until he met his expression "–Oh uh, I tried making popcorn, and the fire alarm went off. It had a heart attack," He said, trying not to laugh at the memory of himself wailing over the death of his rabbit.

He stared at Jude for a moment, then nodded slightly. "Oh." he said slowly, sighing quietly. "That…huh." he kept cradling the rabbit in his own arms, gentle.

"They are fragile little things," Jude sighed, picking up a white rabbit with red eyes, "Anxious, and they scare easily."

Nyx frowned slightly. "Yeah." He replied simply, still petting the rabbit in his own arms. He sighed softly.

Jude smiled, gently petting the rabbit in his hands. "So, what are you looking forward to the most, now that we're finally here?" He asked, remembering Nyx's buzzing excitement on the car ride here.

Nyx shrugged. "I don't know…I wanna see everything!" He replied, still excited, but a little bit better contained about it.

"Mhm, let's hope we can fit everything in one day," Jude smiled, crouching down to release the rabbit, watching it happily hop away.

Nyx smiled a little, and let go of his own rabbit as well, watching as it moved away. He bit his lip a little bit.

"Well, you ready to see some–" Jude twisted around, his eyes landing on the sign pointing towards an enclosure, "–Penguins?" He smiled.

He smiled excitedly. "Ooh! Yes please!" He exclaimed, bouncing on his heels a little bit. He followed Jude out of the enclosure, slipping his hand into Jude's.

Jude took Nyx's hand with a smile, leaving the goats and rabbits for the penguins. A small crowd of people stood around the circular enclosure, snapping pictures of the penguins and the person feeding them. "Cute," Jude chuckled, watching as a smaller one waddling away with a fish.

Nyx looked at the penguin with wide, happy, excited eyes. "Ooh." he smiled a little bit, leaning forward with his eyes fixed on the animals.

"Magellanic penguins," Jude smiled, craning his neck to read the fun facts listen on the little board of information to his far-right, "South American, shy around people if they get too close."

Nyx nodded a little bit, blue eyes still taking in the animals happily, bouncing on his heels a little bit. He was grinning as he watched the penguins, hand still in Jude's.

"What do you think of 'em? Jude prompted, smiling with the delighted sighs around them as a penguin jumped into the water.

"They're cute." Nyx replied softly, a faint smile on his face as he watched the penguins splash and play in the water.

Jude smiled, glancing at Nyx and his own little smile, "–Like you." He gave his hand a little squeeze, happy that he was happy.

Nyx smiled shyly, ducking his head a little bit. "Oh. Thanks." He replied, leaning his head on Jude's shoulder.

"Mhm, just speakin' the truth," Jude said, watching the penguins in amusement before his eyes wandered to another sign: Giraffes.

Nyx leaned against Jude, content to just watch the penguins forever. He watched as they dove in and out of the water, biting his lip a little bit.

"Come on," Jude smiled, trailing a hand through Nyx's hair and looking at the sign, "We got lots to see."