You’d spent the afternoon cleaning up the place… well, it was sort of the 2nd or 3rd time you had done so since Kronii left on her trip
Going back in time a bit, she told you she was going to be out of town for some time impromptu one day
You asked her where to, and she coyly gave you a smile and a wink, promising she’d tell you after she’d get back
It was… weird seeing her act all excited for once about a trip; most of the time when she went on a trip, she usually wore a bit of a scowl on her face in the days leading up to it since it usually was a family thing and that meant most of the time upsetting her usual nite owl sleep schedule
You decided to not press it because seeing her in a chipper mood like this was refreshing in a way and told her you hope she enjoys her trip
”Thanks, I appreciate it. Just don’t get lonely while I’m not here, I’ll be sure to give you a status update while I’m gone so you know I’m not dead”
You bit your tongue wanting to retort with at least 3 different time-based responses to that
It hadn’t even crossed your mind you didn’t ask her how she was traveling until you noticed the suitcase she packed was gone one morning
You went about your life for a bit, trying your darndest to not miss her, and for a time you succeeded in doing that
But her hold on you was quite strong; each passing day you didn’t hear her voice felt longer and longer, and the urge to break your abstinence from pestering her with texts only grew and grew as well
You tried to do what you could during your free time to take her off the mind if only for a bit, and feeling a touch inspired by a stream she did playing a game that involved touching up other people’s houses, you finally got around to cleaning the apartment
That worked for all of a few hours, and then it turned into furniture arrangement from that point forward
You decided to take a break after some time and see that the detective was streaming karaoke, and figured why not
A few minutes into the stream, you hear a knocking sound on her end, wondering if she was able to have a yabe moment
Surprise turns into further surprise when the knocking was none other than the priestess herself in the flesh, holy shit they were actually off-collabing
You continued to watch the stream basking in the novelty of it, until you hear another knocking sound, thinking to yourself “wait the rest of Myth definitely can’t be here, surely this is an actual yabe moment”
The gears in your head finally start to spin when you catch the owl’s and kirin’s voices followed by
”Mumei, where’s my yogurt?”
This little clock…
The next couple of hours turn into euphoric blur; it goes well past the time you’d normally go to bed but you weren’t going to miss any of this for the world
You find yourself singing along to every song they sang, gosling even harder for her when she did a City of Stars duet with the priestess, and couldn’t help but chortle when she started singing a certain sexy song that you knew she initially selected as a gag but could tell she was going to own it when Ame decided to play it anyways
You knew firsthand how the last few weeks sucked ass for her, and seeing her bounce around laughing and giggling with her friends for the very first time in person filled you with a sense of unusual peace
Part of you felt a touch upset that she kept something like this underwrap from you, but partway into the night you get a notification on your phone
All it said was “;)” and the frustration melts away like it was never there in the first place
A few days later, you hear the front door open. You turn your head and lock eyes with the figure holding a suitcase in the doorway.
”Hey there handsome, long time no see... why is everything in the apartment out of place?”
You get up from the couch and walk up to her, putting your hand on her cheek just to confirm that it was in fact your Warden of Time in the flesh.
”Hey listen, I’m sorry I didn’t tell you the exact reason I was out of town, I wasn’t even sure it was going to happen and-”
You press your finger to her lips cutting her off.
”Yer’ as beautiful as the day I lost ye.”
”I’m gone for a few days and you really pulled the How to Train Your Dragon 2 quote on me?”
Your Kronium reserves on empty, you finally give into the urge to give her a big old bear hug, which she returns in kind.
”I missed you too.”
”Kronii?”
”Yeah?”
”You had a lot of fun, didn’t you?”
Resting her head in your chest, you can feel a small smile creeping on her face.
”Yeah, yeah it was a lot of fun.”
It’s a good thing your evening was free because to say she wanted to share everything with you was an understatement.
”So, Ame told me about this thing called the Batista Bomb…”
This was going to be a looooong night of catchup indeed.