Ruby spends a little bit floating, apparently enjoying the view, then teasingly buzzes by Ellie.

If she wants to play tag, Ellie is perfectly willing to play tag.

Zoom.

Tag seems to be the intent! Ruby's laughter is sadly not audible, but she seems to be having fun racing around, climbing, and diving, in big sweeping loops.

Ellie can go pretty fast without all that pesky atmosphere and landscape in the way.

Ruby's been working on her rocket impression - but Ellie does, in fact, have a pretty notable edge on her there -

Until Ruby vanishes and reappears right behind Ellie.

What! She didn't tell her she was working teleportation.

Yup that is definitely a laughing tiger. A laughing teleporting tiger, even, though her range isn't great and her aim is a bit wonky.

Grumble grumble should have spent that time working out telepathy so Ellie can yell at her up here.

Nooooooo gotta zoom.

Probably they'll eventually head down, though.

Eventually.

And then Ellie can tackle Ruby, looking very cross.

She feigns surprise, which is slightly ruined by her giggles.

"You didn't tell me you were working on teleporting," she accuses.

"Wanted it to be a surprise! If it even worked. Hasn't actually been working long."

"Now I'm going to have to figure it out. And telepathy. So we can talk while we're on the moon."

" - Gosh. I really want that - just. You. In my head."

Hee.

"I'll move it to the top of the list, then."

Human, to flop on and pat Ellie.

"Top of my list, too."

Purr.

Heeeeeeee.

Cuddles and pats before working on telepathy, then.

Ellie can work on it while still receiving pats.

Some kind of lightning-light-illumination-knowledge path, maybe...

Ruby initially follows the same idea, but...

Fire is warmth, and the hearth, and the heart, and she wants Ellie by her fireside, wants her love to radiate out - like fire does - she loves loves loves, and more than metaphor, she latches onto that, to the desire to be Ellie's, everything she is -

Briefly, faintly, they meet in the middle.

(Ruby's chest is pretty much glowing with how much she loves her Ellie.)

-Wow.

She reaches out again, firmer this time, now that she knows how -

She loves Ellie, she wonders if Ellie can hear this, there's a warm feeling in her chest that her lungs are too small to contain, she briefly gets a loop of a song that always makes her think of Ellie stuck in the back of her head (Cause there's a new drug baby that I can't resist/ It's like a thousand bolts of lightning when we kiss/ Can you show me now, how can I get my fix?/ Is it love? Is it love? Is it love?), she wonders what kissing Ellie like this will feel like, she wants to crawl inside Ellie's skin and maybe that's a creepy thought whoops but it's hers - Ellie's so pretty -

Ellie's mind is more closed off than Ruby's, sharper, pricklier, less inclined to projection, not as fiery in any respect.

She tries to push back the pride/satisfaction/fondness she gets from knowing Ruby is hers.

!!!!!

So good, she wants to make Ellie happy, wants to make Ellie feel. She loves Ellie and loves that Ruby makes Ellie feel that way.