Sable strolls into her apartment after another day of university classes, closing and locking the door behind her.
"I'm home!"
She kicks her boots off into the shoe rack, hangs up her coat, and heads for the couch.
She bites her lip.
"Yeah. That. Yeah. That's going to be a fun thing to look forward to."
A slow breath out, then she captures Romana's lips in a warm kiss. "I fucking love you so much."
She really leans into it, hair cascading back as she dives into the kiss, breathing in deeply before pulling back with a dreamy little smile.
"I love you too."
Her voice is a little breathless, her ears still perking up at the wash of her Vibrant Voice, shivering and flushing faintly, goosebumps flaring a little along her arms.
"Okay, let's reward you for this loveliness with a burger."
Hailey vanishes the knife and pulls Romana close, opening the delivery service app on her phone and trying to feel out the Treat perk interface. She wants to reward her Treasure with a dinner of excellent burgers for the two of them. Does the perk have any guidance for her here?
It feels like... a lot of things, really.
It feels like - not ink, it's not quite as Sable as that. Not blood, it's not quite as you as that. Something like... polish? There's a certain sense of a metallic glint to it, of something piercing that can press through the veil of mundane reality to let things work.
It feels like Sable's sense of - cooperation, kinship, convocation with herself and the color and connection of being yourself, being Herself, being strong and spread out and and subtle and streaming through the clouds like stray sunbeams in a storm or crackling lightning cresting through the clouds and arching down below.
It feels like... ease, the little relaxation at the back of her neck that tells her that what's done is done and doesn't need to be worried about.
Poking it a little further... She could have already ordered something, some thirty minutes ago. She could order something now, and have casuality propogate backwards such that the order was already on its way regardless of incidental features of time like 'order of events'. She could just order it through the interface as normal, and have the cost for Romana's meal simply not end up net lost in her bank account without any risk of incident, in descending order of 'intensiveness'.
She can even feel how she might try to get a sense for it - the... feeling of the different grains of different blades, the light streaming across the edge of a blade or along the surface of a glistening droplet of ink, and see through to different possibilities; and shape that, filter all those paintings and possibilities for something that makes them both shine all the brighter. Though, it does feels like that might take some doing. There's a sense that it'd be simpler and less... 'energy' intensive to set things to happen at a more loosely bound time in a more loosely bound way, but there are possibilities for tighter things as well, that she could paint and carve into the surface of this power, if her will and skill are up to the task and her reserves don't fail her.
They seem fairly full, as best she can tell, though, as part of the purchase of the perk.
Okay. Okay this is kind of awesome. She really likes this. She's not picky about exact timing, or about making the perk do the ordering without her interact with the interface. The two things she really wants here are skipping the bank account and nudging her toward picking a really good place, and avoiding anything they'll do a poor job of. Spare slack after that can go toward backdating the order after she places it, a little, but that's not as important.
And with that framing in mind, she looks at the delivery app, filtering to the Burger category, and listens to the crackle of lightning in her heart.
Picking a really good place and eliding the normal process of casuality are if not intrinsically tied together in the design of the perk, something that there's a bit of a gulf between.
...That being said, a mix of memory, common sense and a vague flicking sense of blurred, blessed memories guides her order a little - a double-pattied burger with a large fries for her, alongside a smooth milkshake, a side of gravy, and a dah of peanuts for her. Ordering something for her consumption as well isn't quite as efficient as just ordering for her Treasure, but with a shared experience in mind, it can be slipped under the cover of clouds and made to work smoothly enough.
When she checks the tracking, it says that it'll be here in about five minutes.
It doesn't feel like a big decrease to her pool, maybe something like an eighth or a tenth of it depleted with the effort. Once spent, there's a slow sense of more of it seeping in - it shouldn't take too long to regenerate what she's lost - it's her right, after all, to Treat Her Treasure.
Hailey grins broadly.
"Well. This is fabulously convenient. How about a delicious dinner in five minutes or so?"
Oh she can! She can even give a silly little smile in response, too!
She fusses through her hair, and looks up into the air in thought.
"I remember ordering food in to help calm me down when I'm having a hard time sometimes, and... having food be forty minutes really isn't the same as just having it now, or close enough that you can really - get excited in the moment, you know? This is... going to be such an experience, to have on tap, even if we probably shouldn't indulge too much before we buy out all the body perks."
She nods, grinning. "There's something so indulgent about the speed, like the world feels just a little more at our disposal now. Plus, you deserve the treat. You've been so good."
She blushes deeply and glances down at her hands a little.
"...I suppose...~"
She darts up and kisses her nose in revenge.
"And yeah, I know what you mean about the - speed and... immediacy of it all. Think that's maybe the point of it - to make it easier to just - reach out and have a thing to offer your loves and give them a chance to be all excited for you."
She glances up at her eyes.
"...and... I like being excited for you."
Hailey's grin turns a bit sharper. "I really enjoy your excitement. And I enjoy having you. Keeping you. You're mine and I love it."
Then she kisses and nips Romana's neck lightly.
"Yours...~"
She stretches out, a little saucy sigh sinking out of her lips as she leans into her touch, before half-mumbling out the rest in a little sing-song sigh.
"Yours to have, yours to keep..."