Monday evening: 43 Unicorn

[mylandmyrules]

Nell had spent a very long day at Soulwood on Sunday, working the land and setting out everything that needed to be take care of. Today, before and after work, she'd done more planting and digging here, which meant that by the end of the day she was amazingly grateful that there was a hot tub she could sink into to ease her tired muscles and joints.

Yes, it might be ridiculously hot outside and yes, she'd be grateful to be back inside in the air conditioning afterwards, but for right now she was content. Though she'd be much more content once Gladio got home.

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[sword_chocobro]

And Gladio might've just gone and joined Nell when he did get home, but he was thinking he might need some convincing if he was going to just feel like he was going from moving around in an oven to sitting around in a soup. Still didn't stop him from going up and finding her first thing when he got home, though, and it wasn't keeping him from swooping in for a kiss, too.

And then the question:

"What? It wasn't hot enough out here for you already, huh?"

[mylandmyrules]

"I'm marinating," Nell said with a grin. "Just gettin' my bones and muscles so loose they won't complain when I work 'em hard again tomorrow."

She nodded toward the chairs, "You can pull one over and join me that way if you'd rather not marinate as well."

[sword_chocobro]

"How much longer you think you've got left on that marinade?" asked Gladio, who all the same was grabbing a chair and pulling it over, plopping down before adding, "'cause I might've had different plan with more of a long rinse in a nice cool shower."

[mylandmyrules]

"Oh, that's in my plans as well," Nell assured him. "And then dinner. Delivery, preferably, tonight, though I do have freshly baked bread and things for sandwiches."

She stretched luxuriantly in the tub. "Maybe another twenty minutes?"

[sword_chocobro]

"You keep stretching like that," Gladio warned, the tilt of his smirk and teasing lift of his brow fairly evenly matched, "and I might have to change my mind about joining you after all. And there won't be any twenty minutes about it."

[mylandmyrules]

Nell laughed, then winkled her face at him. "Now I don't know what to do."

[sword_chocobro]

"Well," Gladio suggested, that grin softening into a smile, "you could start with telling me about your day. How were things over at Covent?"

[mylandmyrules]

"Oh, it was crazy," Nell said. "Someone decided to let some of the squirrels do deliveries and I'm not sure if the problem was them or how the deliveries were written, but a lot of them went to the wrong places..."

She sighed. "Lots of unhappy and confused people, but I think I got it all sorted out finally. Then I came back here and finished redoing all the plants on the left side of the greenhouse."