post palace takeout! [week 5]

[beathollow]

( at some point a bedraggled lot in yukatas manage to make their way to the dorm, shower and patch themselves up. and then mafuyu makes a very earnest request that they all go out for dinner, and, well, apparently many struggle to refuse her.

this is how they find themselves in something akin to a denny's or an ihop at like, midnight.




as one does. )

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[cirquedesang]

[He's present and it absolutely counts for something. Honestly, they should all probably be resting, but there's something about gathering together in a 24 hour chain place that just kind of... cements the bond and helps with decompressing.

Not that that will be commented on at all, given Celeste's own hangups around letting himself make real connections, but it does make McGillis's general lack of conversation lean more on the side of "companionable silence" than "I was dragged here against my will".]

[vogelfrei]

[ Yes, we can exist in comfortable silence here. McGillis feels doubly so now that he overheard the little dumpster conversation (while in the literal dumpster). Though he denies being a pack animal, he does feel like it is a special treat to be in the presence of somebody in the same situation as himself. ]

[cirquedesang]

[He denies being a pack animal, and yet was goddess-assigned wolf, hm. And when McGillis lets on that he overheard the little dumpster conversation, well - comfortable silence can be accompanied by an understanding look. It would seem that those stealing fries aren't the only ones here sharing special little treats at the table.]

[vogelfrei]

[ Indeed, there is a reason McGillis likes sweets as much as he does. They've never quite stopped feeling like a special privilege. ]

[cirquedesang]

[Special privileges never really stop feeling special, and it is absolutely something of a tragedy that Celeste was turned before his life really started looking up. Can't even taste little treats, now.]