weekend mingle featuring 5 pm brunch because time is meaningless now

[pr159]

[ There probably isn't a single person among them who isn't exhausted after that trial, so it's no surprise that, like last week, there's no party when it's over. Maybe some stay out and mill about the city, while others finally take the chance to get some well-deserved sleep.

Personally, Rideaux is absolutely going to bed now, because it's fucking 10 am or something, and that was a lot.

But when he wakes up again in what is nominally the afternoon, once he's taken a shower and no longer looks like a haggard mess, he's actually going to hole up in the kitchen at the clergy housing and make some pancakes. Just pancakes and nothing else, because this mix is "just add water!" and that's the extent of his cooking skills the most effort he's going to put into anything. Some of them may be slightly burned and oddly shaped, but they're free, so shut it.

There's also some coffee and some (cheap, not his good stuff) whiskey, so if you want to make a half-assed Irish coffee, he's not stopping you.

Is this supposed to be a distraction? Is this actually all just to celebrate the fact that Cumore briefly thought he was going to die and that was delicious to watch? Maybe, but no one has to know that. ]

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[reanbeans]

...Ah.

[ Rean was definitely that type of person—he was used to being underestimated or even thought of as disingenuous due to just the way he was, so he didn't really expect much. And he never considered that anyone's fault—he always was thinking of other people's circumstances as the factor when someone acted a certain way.

It was why he did his best not to hold grudges (Ulquiorra, the Lady, and Shin were outliers and do not count.)

That being said, he hadn't anticipated Raven's reaction at all. There was that wonderful smile on her face—albeit small, it was one that immediately caught his attention. He couldn't remember seeing her give such an expression like this before at all.

So, her words, that smile, and the fact that her compliment—hell, even more than just one—was something of a huge rarity made him feel the embarrassment rise to his cheeks. But it wasn't a bad thing at all.

And there were times where he might want to humbly push aside a compliment, but knowing it was so rare of her to offer one at all made him not...want to do that. ]