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They wake up lying on the ground.
Outdoors.
It's a bright, clear day.
Their body feels different.
Who's in front?
Warm, eager curiosity, with a side of playful smirk? Okay feels like it's Sable.
The Pirates wake up in the sky
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how-it's-made
...It really hits different, when you hear that from someone who you like and who you want to like you.
how-it's-made
She can work with this! She can pat the Ruby! That doesn't require sorting through enough of her gay feelings to recover the ability to speak at all!
the-void-beneath
Yeah neither of them have recovered the ability to speak and that's okay. They can just cuddle and be gay.
how-it's-made
Yeah, that sounds lovely, actually.
They can do that and watch the tree blooming, even!
the-void-beneath
This is cozy. It's really nice.
The flowers have fully bloomed by a little before midnight, and exactly at midnight the petals start falling off and the buds start expanding into fruits.
how-it's-made
"...Huh. Midnight, on the dot. I wonder if it's just going to take another hour before the fruits are ready."
how-it's-made
Momo continues to have actually been quite touchstarved for various reasons for a long time in ways that she is kind of still recovering from enjoy the snuggling!
how-it's-made
The snuggling will continue until...
Okay, it is very likely that the snuggling is just going to continue until something external happens - probably the fruit finishing its growth.
the-void-beneath
Which occurs promptly at 01:00.
"Two hour growth cycle straddling midnight. Neat."
Ruby yawns.
how-it's-made
"It is really neat. I wonder if the flowers serve any function, or if they're entirely decorative? Not something to mess with with no spare capacity, though."
how-it's-made
"Now, let's get us both to sleep -" she doesn't stifle a yawn at all, "or back to sleep, in my case. We certainly need it."
the-void-beneath
"Yeah, you're right." Ruby stretches and stands, and offers a hand to help Momo to her feet, then wanders off to the bathroom stall to quickly change into her PJs. "See you in the tent."
how-it's-made
She doesn't, strictly speaking, need the hand up. She takes it anyway.
"See you there."
the-void-beneath
And a minute or so later, Ruby steps into the tent wearing the loose PJ pants and black camisole Momo made her. They fit very well.
She smiles softly and crawls into her sleeping bag. "Y'know, despite all the horror it started out with, we really enjoyed today with you. You make our lives brighter."
how-it's-made
"...And I can quite firmly say that that is likewise true of yourselves and me. I could have been so much worse off, but here we are, doing things because they're the right thing to do, or because they'll make us happier."