[There is alcohol in the house - Kaeya lives there after all, and Venti is a frequent visitor - but Diluc does not partake in it and he thinks that right now, with Lumine's emotional fragility and the late hour, drinking would not be the best of ideas.
But he smiles a little when she makes her choice, nodding once in acknowledgement.]
You know... when I was a child, Adelinde would have to deal with Kaeya and I arguing over which drink we would have before bed. [He doesn't think he has ever spoken much about his childhood to Aether, so it stands to reason that the same would go for Lumine if she had walked his path.]
Hot chocolate was always my favourite. [He wonders if she knows he likes sweet things.] Kaeya preferred milk and honey. I would usually win the argument.
[Lumine feels her expression soften into a small smile as Diluc talks about himself and Kaeya as children, filling her in on parts of his life she'd never heard about before.]
Did you argue every night? [It would make sense to her if they did, really. None of the arguments would be big ones she was sure, but they were both strong willed and that probably meant they were both so cute as children.
Hearing that Diluc usually won, though, is enough to draw the smallest laugh from her. The sound isn't as bright as she often tried to be...but it was clear that she had attained at least a small measure of stability. Honestly, she was sure the company was helping more than she could express...so maybe she wouldn't talk about that just yet.] Usually huh? That means Kaeya probably won a couple times. It wasn't your favorite, but does that mean you also enjoyed milk and honey?
[To be fair, he and Kaeya had barely argued at all when they were young. Diluc had been so thrilled at the prospect of a playmate that he had accepted the younger boy immediately and the two of them had been all but inseparable until... that night.
It's easier to divert his thoughts from that night than it used to be.
Their steps echo softly around them in the quiet, empty street and Diluc keeps a keen eye out for trouble, as he always does, though he isn't really expecting any. Between the two of them he imagines they could take on anything in any case.]
I let him win sometimes. [There's another of those smiles, small but warm, and he shakes his head.] I can tell you more about how we were growing up, if you're curious to know.
[She does hesitate just a little when Diluc offers to tell her more about their childhood. They had never gotten so close as to speak about that back in Teyvat, and Diluc certainly didn't owe her the familiarity here when he knew her brother instead of her... but he had offered. She wanted to get closer to the people she considered friends again...she wanted that so badly.
There's a slight worried quality to her voice that she mostly manages to hide as she speaks up again.] I'd like that, if you don't mind.
[That was the big part of it though, wasn't it? If Diluc didn't mind. She was still in a considerable amount of pain that she'd done incredibly well hiding before reaching out to Diluc tonight. She sort of felt like...like something of a bother, really. She'd troubled him at this hour of the night and for all she was grasping at the stability his presence offered...she likely had a bit more crying ahead of her before she fell asleep that night.]
[It had always been hard to talk about it because of his strained relationship with Kaeya, but that is a thing of the past now. Thinking about how they were as children is no longer tainted with the way they had parted on Diluc's eighteenth birthday, and he shakes his head when she answers him.]
I don't mind.
[Silently he gestures ahead of them, pointing out a house set a little ways back from the road. There's a large maple tree in the front garden, showing over the wall.] I'm sure you've heard me say before that I don't like to keep things that I have no use for. [The reason he had sharply given to Kaeya for the way he had sold off their childhood home and so many of Crepus' possessions... and a not so subtle dig into his abandonment of their brotherhood.
Harsh. Unnecessarily harsh. But he was so stubborn, especially with his grudges.]
But memories are not so easily put aside. I spent ten years of my life almost inseparable from Kaeya, though I never fully realised how much of a shadow I cast over him.
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Date: 2022-05-14 09:53 pm (UTC)But he smiles a little when she makes her choice, nodding once in acknowledgement.]
You know... when I was a child, Adelinde would have to deal with Kaeya and I arguing over which drink we would have before bed. [He doesn't think he has ever spoken much about his childhood to Aether, so it stands to reason that the same would go for Lumine if she had walked his path.]
Hot chocolate was always my favourite. [He wonders if she knows he likes sweet things.] Kaeya preferred milk and honey. I would usually win the argument.
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Date: 2022-05-15 12:24 pm (UTC)Did you argue every night? [It would make sense to her if they did, really. None of the arguments would be big ones she was sure, but they were both strong willed and that probably meant they were both so cute as children.
Hearing that Diluc usually won, though, is enough to draw the smallest laugh from her. The sound isn't as bright as she often tried to be...but it was clear that she had attained at least a small measure of stability. Honestly, she was sure the company was helping more than she could express...so maybe she wouldn't talk about that just yet.] Usually huh? That means Kaeya probably won a couple times. It wasn't your favorite, but does that mean you also enjoyed milk and honey?
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Date: 2022-05-18 07:08 pm (UTC)[To be fair, he and Kaeya had barely argued at all when they were young. Diluc had been so thrilled at the prospect of a playmate that he had accepted the younger boy immediately and the two of them had been all but inseparable until... that night.
It's easier to divert his thoughts from that night than it used to be.
Their steps echo softly around them in the quiet, empty street and Diluc keeps a keen eye out for trouble, as he always does, though he isn't really expecting any. Between the two of them he imagines they could take on anything in any case.]
I let him win sometimes. [There's another of those smiles, small but warm, and he shakes his head.] I can tell you more about how we were growing up, if you're curious to know.
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Date: 2022-05-23 11:35 am (UTC)There's a slight worried quality to her voice that she mostly manages to hide as she speaks up again.] I'd like that, if you don't mind.
[That was the big part of it though, wasn't it? If Diluc didn't mind. She was still in a considerable amount of pain that she'd done incredibly well hiding before reaching out to Diluc tonight. She sort of felt like...like something of a bother, really. She'd troubled him at this hour of the night and for all she was grasping at the stability his presence offered...she likely had a bit more crying ahead of her before she fell asleep that night.]
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Date: 2022-05-26 04:26 pm (UTC)I don't mind.
[Silently he gestures ahead of them, pointing out a house set a little ways back from the road. There's a large maple tree in the front garden, showing over the wall.] I'm sure you've heard me say before that I don't like to keep things that I have no use for. [The reason he had sharply given to Kaeya for the way he had sold off their childhood home and so many of Crepus' possessions... and a not so subtle dig into his abandonment of their brotherhood.
Harsh. Unnecessarily harsh. But he was so stubborn, especially with his grudges.]
But memories are not so easily put aside. I spent ten years of my life almost inseparable from Kaeya, though I never fully realised how much of a shadow I cast over him.