Voicemail.

[chef_chocobro]

"You have reached the voicemail of Ingis Scientia. I am unavailable to take your call at this moment, but if you would please leave a message, I will assuredly get back to you as soon as possible."

**BEEEEEEP**

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[deathsmajesty]

About an hour before Liliana's class was scheduled to begin, she found him in the house and wrapped her arms about his waist. "I'm dashing off elseplane to do some very important shopping," she informed him brightly. "I had intended to leave you here so that it would be as much a surprise to you as everyone else, but considering earlier in the week, I thought that being summarily told to remain here might sit poorly with you and I'd...rather not do that."

Look at us. We're learning, we're loving, we're thriving.

"So, you can either accompany me, though with the understanding that I will answer no questions," she continued, wagging her finger at him playfully, "or you can meet me at the doors of the school at quarter to ten, which is when and where my return portal is scheduled to leave me."

[chef_chocobro]

With Liliana's arms around him, Ignis leaned easily into the embraced, intrigued from practically the first word, and a soft, tender smile warming him well before that last. And then, faced with such a tantalizing choice, he hummed thoughtfully as he considered.

"I suppose," he finally concluded, "that depends. May I be allowed one, pre-emptive question?"

[deathsmajesty]

"You may," she decided. "For the price of a kiss."

[chef_chocobro]

"A price I was planning to pay anyway," he noted, grinning, but, for that price tag, the kiss that followed perhaps lingered just a touch longer, and, when he was finished, a softer, additional bonus kiss was pressed against her forehead before he asked:

"Will you be needing help carrying anything?"

[deathsmajesty]

"I had intended to bring my steward," she said, since Liliana Vess had strength as her dump stat could hardly be expected to be seen juggling sacks or bushels or jugs or the like. "But, should a handsome gentleman wish to come to a lady's aid instead..."

[chef_chocobro]

"A handsome gentleman," said Ignis, and his frugality, it would seem, was not a matter of concern at all when the cost was kisses, as he was quite eager to be overpaying egregiously in that moment, "would enjoy that very much."

[deathsmajesty]

"Then come with me and be my love, and we shall all the pleasures prove...at least that of a kithkin marketplace," she said and, profligate as always, was happy to return those kisses, all with interest.