The Creepy-on-the-Outside, Not-Abandoned-on-the-Inside Mansion in the Woods; Tuesday [04/16].

[chef_chocobro]

It was well into the morning, well past the time that Ignis would usually be strolling into Luke's to start ordering the staff around to help him get the ingredients to work on the day's specials, and he was still very much in bed, and not at all fussed about it. The weekend had been a whirlwind and it had been a gauntlet of keeping himself calm and composed through a great deal of hurdles and a fair amount of uncomfortable situations that he tried to...well, if not make the best of, at least survive through, and he might just be perfectly content to just stay here with Liliana and make up for all the time they'd lost due to the various moving parts of their unexpected progeny.

Besides, he hadn't slept too terribly well. Quite possibly not at all, his hands idly drifting through Liliana's hair as she curled up next him (for the comfort of the position and the lulling tempo of a heartbeat, of course, and no other reasons, perish the thought), with the darkness that usually surrounded him now filled with the reminiscence of Irrim's gift. How could he sleep, with all that to replay in his head, again and again? He supposed they might graciously leak into dreams, as well, but when Ignis had dreams, they weren't exactly good ones, and it seemed like too much of a risk to chance it.

Nothing a little coffee later couldn't fix, if they ever decided to leave the bed, or, really, not even that, as the steward could just bring some, confirming even more that there truly was very little reason to leave this spot, this moment.

[[ and for the brazenly modded sleeping necromancer beside him, of course ]]

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[deathsmajesty]

That earned him another kiss, the kind that started questioning the necessity of further conversation, though it ended before it could answer it, too. "I'm glad you're coming to realize that," she told him, voice surprisingly prim considering the way she'd just been kissing him a moment ago. "Do you remember, back in the beginning of our relationship, how you used to leave me deliberately? Pull yourself away from me to go elsewhere and do other things as if that could possibly keep you safe from me." She chuckled, low and dark.

Surely that would be enough to distract him from the off-hand upgrade, from dalliance to relationship.