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[Looking between the coffee and Eiji for a while before picking up the mug. Ooh, warm. He more of cuddles the mug than seems to realize he should drink it.]

...so? What's all this.

Well, we live here. We've been living here for years. I don't know why it surprises you.

[He ducks behind the mug, drinking some of it to avoid talking for a minute. ...Hey this is pretty good. He hefts it a little and sets it back down, making a vaguely appraising sound.]

We live here? As in, just you and me?

And our pets. How did you forget our pets?

...Pets?

[What.]

Uva, Gamel, Mezool and Cazalli.

[Alarmed bird squeak.]

We named pets after them??

Eh? After who?

[Wheezes, running a hand through his hair and oozing his way into the chair proper.]

...am I human right now?

. . . you've always been human.

[More wheezing. Like the wind got knocked straight out of him. And now he's pawing at things, patting his collarbone, his arm, reaching for Eiji, recoiling. Completely at a loss.]

I'm--

[ rushing over to you and kneeling in front of you, trying to place his hands on your cheeks to hold you still ]

Ankh, calm down.

[Breathing seems to be something he's forgetting how to do. Until he sets his hands on Eiji's shoulders and inhales sharply, holds his breath, and then just. Confused:]

I'm alive?

Well, yes. I mean if you weren't then this kind of afterlife together wouldn't be so bad, right?

[That may have been a laugh, or he may have just been expelling air like a balloon, it's hard to tell.]

Shut up.

[You have a bird crumpling into your grasp now.]

[ he picks you up and princess carries you back to their room so he can set you on their bed ]

Okay, let's be real here. I've had moments where I've questioned your humanity, but that was only when we were fighting over something stupid because you can be kind of high maintenance at times.

[Burrowed against his collarbone until Eiji puts him down.]

Excuse you, I'm nothing of the sort. And I'm pretty sure whatever level of domestic partnership we're in was probably something you consented to so that says more about you than it does me.

[ he climbs into bed with you and reaches over to drag you against him so that you're leaning on him ]

How many times have I threatened to throw out all of your hairspray because you pissed me off? I don't even know. That's how many times it happened. I've lost count.

[This is the strangest thing. It's so strange. He settles, worming until he fits just so against Eiji's side and that's strange, too. Did he always fit there? Had he ever tried to?]

Good news for you: I am not the least bit interested in doing anything with hair spray at this exact moment.

[ he wraps an around around your shoulders in a relaxed manner, almost as if he's used to doing this ]

That just worries me.

[Frowning and trying to get comfortable, twisting to look at your hand. Weirddddd.]

Having fantastic hair doesn't mean I always think about hairspray.

Yeah, but you could use hairspray in a number of dangerous ways that I wouldn't put past you.

[A chuckle.]

I mean it is flammable.

That's what I'm saying!

Except it would be stupid for me to make use of that since there's a high concentration of it on my own head.

[Setting his chin on your shoulder and giving you a judgmental frown.]

Think these things through, Eiji.