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The Roof, Monday Afternoon

Well, that was it for another term of workshops, then, and now there was a week to look forward to not a heck of a lot of anything at all.

Zack, of course, was going to kick that off by attempting to get in touch with the Director back in Midgar, to see if there was any important work for him yet. That phone call was met with no answer from Lazard, and so little success. That idea having fallen through, Zack decided to default straight to... Plan B.

...

The view of the clouds was way more awesome from the roof than it was down on the ground! And, in a rare moment of something not unlike planning ahead, Zack had even brought lemonade.

Now he was all set for whatever break week could throw at him, oh yes.

[Open roof, open post! Hi!]

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Hinata hadn't--really expected the crowd. She'd thought it might be nice to let Yei play around on the roof (it was an area that was Intriguing to the kitten) and so, seeing everyone, hovered a bit uncertainly just by the door and wondered if it would be alright if she... stayed around a bit?

Or if it would be better to slip back downstairs before anyone noticed her. She could take Yei out to the preserve as well, after all.

"Kitty!"

Too late, Hinata. You'd been spotted. Or, well, your tagalong had been. Zack totally recognized that kitten, and was now waving the both of you down!

"Heya!"

She pulled up a smile--it was easy enough to do at such a cheerful greeting and wandered over. Yei batting out a paw curiously as soon as they were closer.

Person? Person! Purring time was now!

Hinata had the world's most cheerful kitten, yes.

"Hello," she said, smiling slightly. "I am glad I do not seem to be intruding."

"Hey, it's hard to intrude on a day like this!" Zack held out a hand toward Yei, still grinning. It was hard not to, when there was such an adorable kitten nearby, saying hello. "If I didn't want the company, I'd be in the preserve or something."

A pause, and then he was reaching for the few plastic cups he had left.

"And I totally wouldn't have made so much lemonade. Want some?"

And that'd be a tiny kitty paw poking at your hand, Zack! And a kitty nose streeetching out to smell you curiously.

Hinata blinked. "I would not mind, thank you." She hadn't expected lemonade to be found on the roof, no. "And even in the preserve, well, perhaps the deer would have kept you company?"

That was Hinata's own form of mild playing around, yes.

"Oh, I'm not that prone to just talking to myself," Zack laughed, wiggling his fingers for the kitten with one hand while lifting the lemonade jug with the other. He was totally multitasking! "And the deer don't really smile or anything. They just kind of follow people around and stare."

... Okay, so maybe he'd run into the deer a couple of times. But not too much!

Hinata's eyes crinkled at the corners as she fought not to laugh.

"I would think that'd be a bit disturbing," she opined.

"A bit," Zack agreed. "I mean, they're cute enough, but they have these huge doe-eyes and when there are a dozen of them all staring at you at once? It's like something out of a freaky horror movie or something."

Lemonade successfully poured, with only a bit of spillage, Zack was now offering Hinata the cup.

Her being offered the cup meant that Yei wanted to see what it was RIGHT NOW and Hinata laughed as she took it and spent a moment juggling kitten and drink around so that Yei could stick her head in to sniff at the drink.

Before recoiling a bit at the smell.

"I'd have told you that'd happen," she informed her cat. "But you never believe me." Hinata smiled at Zack. "You sound like that's happened to you before."

Zack was now sheepishly scratching at the back of his head.

"I sort of gave up thinking out loud while I was wandering in the preserve because of that. Sometimes talking can help you think, you know? But I totally forgot my train of thought when I looked up and saw all of those little guys just looking."

Pardon Hinata for laughing. "Perhaps the beach would be better if you talk out loud to think," she suggested, setting Yei down and unsurprised when the kitten went to inspect Zack's boots.

Zack had totally awesome boots! Totally awesome, kitten-friendly ones! And toes that wiggled! Look at them go, Yei!

"And there's totally more room on the beach, too, if I want to practise," Zack agreed. "The preserve is better for just running around, if I want obstacles to avoid or something."

"I'd imagine that the island would rather you didn't practice in the preserve with your sword as well," Hinata noted, a grin playing on her lips. "Th-The poor trees!"

"There's nowhere near enough room in the preserve for me and my sword," Zack protested with a laugh. "I'd be cutting them down left and right if there was anything I had to swing it sideways for!"

Accidental clear-cut logging. Oops?

"The poor trees, and think how you'd startled the deer then!" Hinata laughed softly, sipping at the lemonade.

"You don't suppose they'd still keep staring if I was swinging my sword around while talking, do you? I'd be kind of worried about accidentally hitting one, then."

Zack's conscience worked in weird ways when it came to wanton destruction.

Hinata frowned thoughtfully, even though her eyes were amused.

"I wouldn't think they'd keep staring," she said slowly, "as most animals have a fairly decent survival instinct, I would hope...?"

Zack shrugged.

"I don't know," he admitted. "They seem kind of.. dumb. I think maybe there's a reason that they're endangered, you know? They don't really have any natural predators on the island."

Except for invasions, maybe. Oh.

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