Embers of Sun and Flame (Fuegoleon Vermillion x OC)

Chapter 47 "I'm happy" / It'll be hell...

"[Here,]" Selena stated while handing Solara a large bag. "[But don't expect me to be your errand runner,]" she smirked.

"[If you didn't want to bring it over, you could have just said so,]" Solara rolled her eyes.

"[Naaah... I didn't say that. And besides, I was in Thea still, so it's fine,]" Lena shrugged, cocking her head as she did so.

A brief moment of silence, lasting only for a few seconds, passed by them.

"[Tea?]"

"[I thought you'd never ask,]" Lena mused with a playful scoff.

"[And I thought that you'd tell me that you actually want to talk to me,]" Lara scoffed with amusement, while putting the bag away, and beginning to lead Lena towards the living quarters of the base, just around the corner from where they stood.

"[I wouldn't be here if I didn't want to talk to you. Plus, I thought that you'd know me better than this... If I come over then-]"

"[We'll be having tea and talking about nothing and everything in particular?]" Lara stated while pointing towards a teapot on a small table, between two arm chairs.

"[Ah, and here I thought that I'd have to start worrying about you getting old.]"

"[I fail to see your logic, you were out in the world before I was,]" Solara rolled her eyes.

"[But only because they had to fish me out via C-section. You were always supposed to be the eldest,]" Lena shrugged. "[Which is why I'm still glad that they gave you the title of first born. Because you were meant to have it.]"

"[...And you're free to do your own thing?]"

"[.... That is... an added bonus yes,]" Lena admitted as they sat down.

Solara only scoffed as a reply, rolling her eyes, and yet pouring Lena a cup of tea.

"[But jokes aside,]" Lena began, her tone changing into that of a flutter. "[How are you doing?]"

"[I'm...]" Lara paused for a moment, thinking about what to answer with a smile tugging her lips up. "[I'm a lot of things.]"

Lena quirked an eyebrow at her. "[That's not an answer,]" she insisted. "[Lexi did dirty on you. Sil is... not happy. Though who cares what he thinks, and Val...]" a scoff escaped her. "[Well, Val is Val. Right now, at least. He doesn't seem actively threatening, but who knows.]"

"[Lexi... I have a bone to pick with her. Sil... honestly, who cares what his scrawny little ass has to say, and Val... I-, 'm not sure how to feel about that. I mean. He needs help. And he needs to accept that help, and I just-,]"

"[Have Val conduct an experiment on Lexi's magic, by having her and Sil get locked into a room together, until Lexi gets bored and decides to have some fun with him. Lexi would hate being made into a comprehensible report, something to be reasoned out. Sil would hate the emotional torture of not being 'ready' to admit his crush for her. And Val would have to deal with Sil's anger of being put into that position for research purposes.]"

"[... That... honestly doesn't sound all that bad.]"

"[But-]"

"[But. It wouldn't be ethical.]"

Lena hummed in agreement while taking a sip of her tea.

"[So...]" Lena continued.

"[So... I'm... I'm-,]" she paused for a moment as a smile crept onto her face. She gazed into the depths of the amber coloured liquid in her cup, and smiled. "[I'm... happy.]"