She's happy that he is at least is running with her joke. It brings an immediate smile to her lips, brighter than the last, and she leans over to examine the wrapped up "child". ]
Leif? I like that name! I hope he knows he's got the worlds handsomest, risk-taking daddy.
[ i'm disgusted in myself too don't worry ]
Anyway, are you going to be holding onto them like that the whole time?
[ WAIT HE WENT WITH IT backpedals furiously except not ]
Well when you put it that way, it's just what they deserve. [ Their screaming root children deserve to see her face... and to be carried the whole time. He said it, okay. ]
But, really, should we, y'know... put it to sleep?
[ Suddenly she's refusing to use harsher words because of empathy, if her hesitation wasn't that much of a hint. ]
[ His words are a little too quick with his relief. It's still just a vegetable, even if it's screaming, and keeping it from screaming if they slip carrying it sounds like a great idea.
...it's not really their child, okay!
...
It's like putting it down for a nap, maybe? Cain eyes the bundle warily. ]
Er. How do we do that? Do we... dice it up?
[ What do you even do with a screaming plant...? ]
[ They're both taking this too seriously... it's a plant. ]
Well, I... [ She reaches to her hip, finding the knife she had properly robbed after a good day's worth of dragon farming. ] I've got a knife, so... I think that's the best way to go about it, I guess?
[ But a plant with a mouth on it! How are they supposed to view it as nothing more than vegetation when the slightest bump might send it screaming again? It's too much like a real baby, Cain's not ready for this responsibility!
And on second thought, he's also not entirely sure he's ready to carve the thing up into itty bitty pieces.
He stares at the knife with dread now that he's faced with the very real prospect of having to open the bundle and have the thing screaming bloody murder while he, well, murders it. ]
Ah... Or maybe we could just wrap it up a bit more securely?
[ They don't need to really knife their child, right? Right? ]
[ The face he makes, the expression is something that she doesn't expect from him and it causes her to pause with disbelief. Drawing a silent breath, allowing the momentary pause to end, she slowly brings the knife down. ]
I get what you mean, I do, but if you're serious about not slicing it up that means you'll have to be carrying it like that. And I dunno if our employer wants to have to deal with their crying, either...
But they weren't very specific in the first place.
[ That last bit is said with a sickly sweet smile, despite her having the worst intentions possible. That were mild, admittedly, but that poor person who hired them both was going to have to face the sweet music of root crying. ]
[ Cain's shoulders slump with relief. He hadn't thought Leanne would make him, but... well, she might have teased him about it. But since she didn't, he gives her a brilliant smile and makes a show of carefully wrapping the cloth a bit tighter around the root. ]
We don't need too many, so we should have enough room to wrap them all up. Do you want to dig or bundle?
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She's happy that he is at least is running with her joke. It brings an immediate smile to her lips, brighter than the last, and she leans over to examine the wrapped up "child". ]
Leif? I like that name! I hope he knows he's got the worlds handsomest, risk-taking daddy.
[ i'm disgusted in myself too don't worry ]
Anyway, are you going to be holding onto them like that the whole time?
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ANYWAY Cain just gives her a vaguely horrified look. He has to carry all of their awful, screaming root children? ]
But Darling, don't you think the first thing they should be is the most beautiful woman in the world?
[ help, it's catching ]
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Well when you put it that way, it's just what they deserve. [ Their screaming root children deserve to see her face... and to be carried the whole time. He said it, okay. ]
But, really, should we, y'know... put it to sleep?
[ Suddenly she's refusing to use harsher words because of empathy, if her hesitation wasn't that much of a hint. ]
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[ His words are a little too quick with his relief. It's still just a vegetable, even if it's screaming, and keeping it from screaming if they slip carrying it sounds like a great idea.
...it's not really their child, okay!
...
It's like putting it down for a nap, maybe? Cain eyes the bundle warily. ]
Er. How do we do that? Do we... dice it up?
[ What do you even do with a screaming plant...? ]
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Well, I... [ She reaches to her hip, finding the knife she had properly robbed after a good day's worth of dragon farming. ] I've got a knife, so... I think that's the best way to go about it, I guess?
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And on second thought, he's also not entirely sure he's ready to carve the thing up into itty bitty pieces.
He stares at the knife with dread now that he's faced with the very real prospect of having to open the bundle and have the thing screaming bloody murder while he, well, murders it. ]
Ah... Or maybe we could just wrap it up a bit more securely?
[ They don't need to really knife their child, right? Right? ]
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[ The face he makes, the expression is something that she doesn't expect from him and it causes her to pause with disbelief. Drawing a silent breath, allowing the momentary pause to end, she slowly brings the knife down. ]
That's... not our baby. Or a baby in general.
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[ He knows that! It's just a vegetable. A very loud vegetable that screams horrible bloody murder...
But it's still just a plant!
Even if he's feeling a little sorry for it... ]
It's just... well, it's a bit hard to want to stab it when it sounds like that.
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I get what you mean, I do, but if you're serious about not slicing it up that means you'll have to be carrying it like that. And I dunno if our employer wants to have to deal with their crying, either...
But they weren't very specific in the first place.
[ That last bit is said with a sickly sweet smile, despite her having the worst intentions possible. That were mild, admittedly, but that poor person who hired them both was going to have to face the sweet music of root crying. ]
Just make sure to hold it tight.
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We don't need too many, so we should have enough room to wrap them all up. Do you want to dig or bundle?