Come the hell on, I'm not going to flat-out say "why don't you just come to this dark alley and wait." Meet me by the library and we'll go find a scenic date spot once we've met up.
[The nice part of Friday nights is that he doesn't have to sleep; there's plenty of time to bother with that later, when he doesn't have to work. So he works on something all night, and once it's finished, he heads over to Ryuunosuke's place.
It is five in the morning when Silver knocks, and when knocking doesn't work he sends Honchkrow up to bang on windows.]
Hey, Ryuunosuke! Let's go!
[For someone with a pretty much flat toned voice, it sure can carry.]
[It's definitely going to take Honchkrow banging on the windows to get Ryuunosuke out of bed, and once he's got the door open he looks much grumpier than usual. He hasn't even bothered to comb his hair into place and it's sticking out everywhere. His pajamas are a plain white shirt and the most hideously patterned pants he could find, but it's obvious he literally just crawled out of bed.]
What.
[It's not even a question. HE'S SO DONE WHY ARE YOU HERE AT GODAWFUL O'CLOCK]
[Good morning oh god Silver is way too bright for this hour of morning, but here he is, crackling and sparkling and not even skipping a beat at Ryuunosuke's reception.]
[Ryuunosuke drags his hands down his face and makes a few other undignified noises while he tries to figure out if it's too late to claim he's feeling sick. Probably. Dammit.]
Why can't we go later? Or not at all. That sounds good too. I just want to sleep...
[He won't even shut the door! He will shut the door to his bedroom though so he can get changed. There's a lot of muffled complaints going on and they all seem to be about how it's too damn early in the morning to do anything, especially not move.
But he'll eventually return, properly dressed and in something surprisingly sane. He's not going to freeze to death, at least.]
[...Congratulations, you know how to dress yourself.
In the meantime, Silver turns around and actually picks up the pot he'd intended to give Ryuunosuke earlier; by the time he heads out, Silver just holds it up for him.]
I made you this, by the way.
[After more than enough tries. It's... There's definitely a cactus under there somewhere, but there are all kinds of flowers blooming out of it, and none of them match, let alone look like they're supposed to come out of a cactus.
[Ryuunosuke takes the pot and turns it as he inspects the flowers, then the cactus. The previous irritation is completely gone and while he still looks sort of sleepy, he's definitely more awake now.]
This is really cool, Silver! Wow, look at all the awesome flowers! It's incredible!
[He's sparkling a bit as he turns toward the back wall, where there are several other potted cacti. The one in the center obviously came from Tsukiyama given how bright the area around it is, but the others appear to have been made during The Great Cacti-Making Party. There's even a few clean gardening tools scattered nearby, so it looks like Ryuunosuke actually picked up a thing or two from Cilan.]
Thanks a lot, this is so great! It can hang out here with the others.
[In the one lone non-apathy portion of Ryuunosuke's apartment.]
[Look he couldn't make any cacti that one day so he practiced and this is the closest thing to a cactus that he could manage after all this time, and- Oh. Ryuunosuke likes it.
Well, if it's good enough for Ryuunosuke, it's good enough for him. It's nice seeing them all lined up like that; they really stand out in contrast to everything else.
...But they have adventures to have today, and Silver is all too eager to drag Ryuunosuke onto them.]
I'm glad you like it. Now come on, let's go.
[The temptation to grab Ryuunosuke's hand and tug him along is pretty high, but he can resist it for now.]
[Ryuunosuke sighs, but once he's set the cactus down he really can't think of any other reason to stall, so. Here we go? He'll follow, though he's kind of quiet the entire time why did this have to be at five in the morning.]
[Silver moves quickly- Weavile's out with him, as usual, and while he's content to run eagerly along with Silver, he moves behind Ryuunosuke once they get out of the city.
Getting into the woods isn't particularly exciting; there are trees and some birds are waking up, but the real excitement is some distance from here, and it will take quite some time to get where Silver wants to go on foot. By the time they're there, the sun hasn't quite started to rise, but it's definitely less pitch black than it was when they started.]
We're here.
[Where "here" is is anyone's guess, but Weavile's still watching the rear.]
[It's good to have Weavile keeping watch from behind, because Ryuunosuke is way too tired to pay much attention to his surroundings. He'll follow though with only minimal complaints. At least there's that?]
...Where's "here", exactly?
[He glances around, trying to wake up a bit more and pulling his coat tighter around himself.]
[He's already on it. Weavile would be on it as well, but he's on babysit Ryuunosuke and make sure he doesn't get eaten by anything duty, so he goes at his pace.]
[Despite the muted complaints, he'll uh. Try? He hasn't climbed a tree since he was a literal child. Goddamn. WE DON'T HAVE TO GO TOO HIGH UP, DO WE...]
[Luckily, the tree is actually pretty easy to climb; there are branches absolutely everywhere. Pine trees!
Less fortunately, the tree is absolutely gigantic... In fact, it seems to be significantly larger than the trees around it. Silver's making his way to the top- as high as you can climb before the branches get too flimsy to sit on.
And then he glances down from where he is and spends a long time just thinking about how much it would suck to fall out of a tree and die.]
...How many bones do you think I'd break if I fell from here? All of them?
[Despite the question, he has no intention of finding out and he makes sure he's careful getting further up. He'll stop a few branches below Silver anyway.]
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