She doesn't make very many mistakes, actually, though she does make them. She had her warm up, and it was even on a song that's based on this one, and she is very much trying her best. It's extremely stressful, though. She is probably the most anxious he's ever seen her, even beating out when she first arrived and literally feared she was about to die. They are not following the (read: her) standard piano playing procedure!!! Usually she'd read over the whole thing and maybe quickly practice the hardest parts before putting it all together instead of just, just. This!!! Duet with a guy who knows this song like it's his own heart, because in a way it kind of is, no time to breathe you're in the deep end and and and and.

It's fine. This is fine. She does not need any redos, she is fine she will make her damn tutor proud and she will awkwardly fill in for this lonely man's twin and if she flubs a little then then then it's his own damn fault, okay!

When the song is concluded she lets out a breath she didn't know she was holding. In sort of a nervous whine. She eases up from her hyperfocus to look at him and. Yep he's. He's crying. Um.

He spends a few seconds staring at the piano keys, not saying anything.

Then he gets up and walks away.

??????????

"Okay, bye???" she says in a very small voice, still a little shellshocked.

A few seconds later Zazi walks into the room.

"Both twins, huh?"

She’s still a bit slow on the uptake, she’s usually much more quick to parse Zazi’s implied meanings.

“… What?”

"Nothing, nothing. We didn't know you could play but we made a bet and boy did it pay off."

“The… piano? I. Zazi I would have appreciated a warning before accidentally walking in on half a man’s bleeding heart and casually playing it for funsies.”

"Where would the fun in that be? And besides, he got really excited that you were playing with his instrument."

“Oh, so you’ve graduated to innuendo now, is it,” she snorts rolling her eyes, but her lips do twitch because, well. … it was a pretty good one. “Shit. Right. Um. I’m going to go back to my room now, I guess.” Her mouth twitches again, and okay, she can’t resist. “Since he did do a number on me in his enthusiasm.”

They laugh delightedly and then their little bug buzzes and starts leading the way. "Keep going like that though and you will bag both twins," they call after her as she's leaving.

“Hooray for me, the full set,” she says, but, um. Well, now she’s embarrassed and going to go hide in her room. She’s aware that Zazi can absolutely see her hide under the covers but damn it she’s going to do it anyway because. Because.

(Noooooo no no no twin threesome fantasies are not for involving real people because they are fantasies and therefore are entirely fictional and they are better that way!!!)

After about an hour a child appears at her door. This is notable because the child is not Zazi. She's platinum blonde like Nai and she's wearing a simple sleeveless white dress that goes down to her knees and she's barefoot.

By this point she’s screwed her head back on from where it popped off at playing the piano. She’s had a shower and is lounging on her bed, reading. (Among the things humans require for maintenance is literature, in her opinion.)

She looks up at her door opening, blinking. “Oh, um. Hello. Can I help you?”

"...you? You are the human Master Knives is obsessed with?" she asks, stepping into the room with a look a jungle cat might reserve to something it hasn't yet decided whether it's prey. Not that Yvette will get the reference but she'll get the look.

… why does she feel like she is in quite a lot of danger right now.

“Probably, he doesn’t tend to keep a lot of pet humans around,” she says, a little warily. “I’m Yvette, it’s nice to meet you?”

"...no. No it's not.

"Why does he like you?" She starts pacing back and forth around Yvette as if trying to discern her true nature. "What so special about you? Why are you still alive?"

She sets her book aside and draws herself up to a sitting position.

“Well, I have put quite a lot of work into healing plants, so, uh. That’s probably it? To all three questions. I don’t think I’m otherwise all that remarkable.”

"You're playing dumb. Stop doing that."

Her brow furrows.

“… Fine. But my answer nonetheless remains the same. I don’t think I’m an outlier, I just think I was the first idiot to trip into all of this.”

She smirks. "Idiot is right," she says, with a purr in her voice that really clashes with her childlike appearance. "Well, he'll forget about you soon enough, and then I'll have him for myself again."

And off she goes without waiting for a response.

The fuck was any of that???

But, yeah she’ll just let creepy predator girl who is maybe having jealousy issues with Nai leave without any kind of bye or anything? That seems like the best option for her own safety.

None of the myriad superpowered people in the compound come to bother her for the rest of the day.

Well, uh. Good???

Despite this thought, she does wander out of her room to see if Nai is back with the plants. Because if he is, then she can therefore throw herself into work and stop having confusing human feelings. That sounds much better than having those confusing human feelings in a compound surrounded by people who mostly all think humanity are scum.

Knives is there, floating in front of another plant, a red one, and glowing while he heals her. He doesn't acknowledge Yvette at all.

Oh. Uh.

That's technically here, but also not what she was hoping for. She's not sure what she was hoping for, actually, now that she thinks about it. Pretending everything is normal and the world hasn't tilted sideways seems... like an impossibility right now. Mostly she just wants to distract herself with work. And is too damn trustworthy to pick it back up again without him to supervise her, because she's trying to make a fucking point, here.

... She'll just go back to her room and read, then.