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November: the time of the year when people start to wear oversized hoodies, woolly sweaters, and many layers to keep themselves warm, and cosy.
And that is exactly what The Time Warden was doing, keeping herself warm in an oversized brown hoodie that she has stolen from her girlfriend’s closet - Mumei wouldn’t mind if one of her favourite pieces of clothing went missing, right?
glasses sitting on top of her nose, a book resting in her lap, and a warm cup of honey tea placed on the table. While the raindrops were heard hitting against the windows of her apartment, it was relaxing, soothing even. She let out a sigh as her head sunk deeper into the soft material of the hoodie, the smell of sweet berries enveloped her nose, and before she knew a smile grew on her face.
Her head suddenly turning around as she felt a hand softly ruffle her neatly done hair, the dark-haired woman was about to complain about how her perfect hairstyle got ruined but immediately decided against it when big owlish-like eyes looked into her sapphire ones.
“Kronii…” her owl said softly giving her a weak yet affectionate smile, she hummed in acknowledgment letting her girlfriend continue on what she was about to say “I’m tired, come to bed?” the hand that was ruffling the dark fine locks dropped on her shoulder lightly squeezing it for encouragement, she chuckled to herself, closing the book that was resting on her knees, placing it by the cup of tea while standing up without a word.
“You are wearing my hoodie” Mumei stated. Her eyebrows knitting slightly, arms crossed as her Time Warden sat down on the bed, “so what if I am?” Kronii said looking up into her girlfriend’s eyes “it’s pretty great” she said almost nonchalantly while pulling the shorter woman into her lap.
“It suits you” Mumei whispered as she wrapped her arms around Kronii’s neck.
A huff left The Warden’s lips “Everything suits me” The older woman said with confidence earing a giggle from her partner and a light slap on the shoulder.
“You are such a dork, Kronii” words left her mouth.
It’s been 2 days ever since the older woman came back from her break, it’s not like she didn’t want to bring her beloved with her it was more the fact that she couldn’t, she still had to take care of time related matters and bringing Mumei would simply get in the way, she would get distracted and that was not something she would like to happen during her work.
“Mumei” she said while lazily dragging her fingers across her girlfriend’s spine “you good?” all she could feel was a lazy nod of a head that was placed in the crock of her neck, with that The Time Warden shifted her own position on the bed so the smaller woman would comfortably lay on top of her, that’s how they usually slept, the owl nicely nested in her embrace letting soft snores fill the room.
And Kronii would lie if she said she didn’t love it, and she would definitely lie if she said she didn’t feel at peace, because no matter where her owl could be she would always call it home.
She slipped her glasses off and carefully placed them on the bedside table, slowly as she thought the woman cuddled up to her already fell asleep, with her left hand she reached for the little lamp switch, a click that usually was barely hearable almost echoed in the quiet room, head placed on the pillow eyes fixated on the boring white ceiling, a soft sight left her lips and the hand that was occupied with the switch now slowly playing with the long brown strands of hair.
Moments like that made her feel more like a human rather than the eternal being she was, and before meeting the concept of civilization she spent millennials closed off, maintaining the perfect flow of time, she witnessed many catastrophes, ones such as fall of Atlantis, but before she could yet again fall into her monotonous circle of thoughts, she felt the lips she could recognise even after hundreds of years place a soft kiss upon her neck.
“You are thinking again” her owl said quietly, making the dark-haired woman chuckle to herself “you caught me, Mumei” she whispered with uncharacteristic soft tone, the time warden felt the woman on top of her move slightly and a moment later she could see brown almost glowing in the dark eyes bore into her.
“what about?” she said, chin now resting on Kronii’s chest blinking slowly out of tiredness, the older woman reached her hand and caressed softy her girlfriend’s cheek, dragging her index finger across the not so sharp jaw “You” she said simply as the finger that was running back and forth her owl’s jaw made its way to put a strand of hair behind the other woman’s ear “I always find myself thinking about you” she mumbled sheepishly, smiling to herself and hoping the darkness of the room would hide it, yet the fact that owls tend to see well in the dark slipped away from her mind.
“ohh Kronii…” Mumei said while pulling herself slightly up, her face inches away from Kronii’s “I always think about you too” she whispered while leaning in to close the small gap between their faces, the lips that always tasted like berries met the ones that were always rather cold, a shiver ran down her spine as the older woman placed a hand behind her neck pulling the owl impossibly closer.
And their kisses always felt like a dance, a dance underneath the starry night, a dance that did not require music as their heart beats created rhythm loud enough for them to follow, a simple yet beautiful dance that could be only performed by the both of them.
Mumei’s hands cupped her warden’s face, thumbs running across the sharp cheekbones, a soft innocent and rather whiny moan escaping her mouth as Kronii pulled away, already missing those cold lips.
“sleep” the dark-haired woman blurred out making Mumei just stare at her for a second before she once again dived in
“don’t want to now” she mumbled under the kiss making Kronii smile ever so slightly, she grabbed her owl by the waist and with a swift motion flipped her so the places would change, the brown-haired woman now laying flat on her back with time hoovering above her. Kronii pulled away looking at her owl’s flushed face: that she only assumed considering how dark the room was.
Kronii wanted to say something, mouth half open ready for the words to spill but before that could even happen Mumei pulled her back in gripping tightly the collar of her favourite brown hoodie.
“You needy owl” The Time Warden mumbled between the sweet berry like kisses.