Outside MCA #9, Monday afternoon

[magnusrushesin]

Magnus had gone out to select the best Candlenights tree he could find to share the holiday with Octavia.

"Man, fruitcake aren't really what i was hoping for as a fun fight," he grumbled, hefting the tree up over his shoulder. His big, buff, beefy boy shoulder. "Octavia! I really hope you're home..."

Oh, he really should have checked that first.

[for the gal in question, but hallways are open!]

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[magnusrushesin]

"Okay," Magnus said in a way that somehow conveyed disbelief and the fact that a couple pieces of furniture might show up in the near future.

[okteiviakom]

"Mm-hmm," Octavia hummed in response, sounding like she had her suspicions about his 'okay'. But she wouldn't air them right now. "So. We have a tree. What else?"

[magnusrushesin]

Because it was a fight she would lose!

"So, we get it set up and we put stuff on it to decorate!"

Again, no decorations on him.

[okteiviakom]

Octavia nodded.

"Stuff like what?"

[magnusrushesin]

"Candles, but like fake ones so nothing catches on fire." So, Christmas lights.

[okteiviakom]

"And did you bring any with you?" Octavia prompted. "Because we don't have anything like that."

[magnusrushesin]

"...shit. Do you know any transmutation magic?" Magnus, no.

[okteiviakom]

"Do you think I know any?"

That sounded very unimpressed.

[magnusrushesin]

"You could be multi-classing!" There was even a wild magic barbarian subclass put there now.

[okteiviakom]

"I'm not."

She was pretty sure, anyway.

"So I'm guessing we don't have lights for the tree."

[magnusrushesin]

"Well then. We make 'em! It'll be a crafting project and that way they're extra special."

Lemonade from lemons. There.

[okteiviakom]

"Okay," Octavia replied with a tiny nod. She'd decided to try and just roll with things today. "From what? We might have something for that, but I don't really know about this stuff."

[magnusrushesin]

"So, shiny stuff. Oh! Popcorn! Taako once lectured me about how tacky it is, but he's not here to say no."

Suck it, Taako!

[okteiviakom]

Octavia looked in the general direction of the kitchen, considering it. "Pretty sure we have popcorn, at least," she said, after a moment. "And maybe that... tinfoil stuff?"

[magnusrushesin]

Magnus beamed at that. "See, now you're getting creative!"

[okteiviakom]

Octavia shrugged. "It's just the only shiny thing we have."

Leave it to her to downplay any creative thinking on her part that wasn't directly related to doing battle.

[magnusrushesin]

Magnus would totally cheer for her, though. "So, we can make stars with that. Because those are pretty and festive."

This tree was going to be adorably janky.

[okteiviakom]

It'd be the best Octavia had ever had, either way.

She nodded towards the kitchen. With its sad set-up of a table and just two chairs, yes. "Come on, then."

[magnusrushesin]

"And maybe I can show you how to carve an ornament," he suggested.

[okteiviakom]

"I think I'd like that," Octavia said, as she went to look for the foil. And the popcorn.

It was a knife skill thing, of course she'd like it.

[magnusrushesin]

Yeah, but would she learn the same way he started out? By just viciously attacking some wood.

"Oo! You can turn them into gifts next year!"

[okteiviakom]

This was Octavia: it was only a tiny bit of an exaggeration to say she took any excuse to attack something that she possibly could.

She snorted. "I'm not really thinking that far ahead."

[magnusrushesin]

"But this way you don't have to worry about shopping!" Magnus, seriously. "Also, you're pretty anti-consumerism, so this is good."

[okteiviakom]

Octavia gave him a half-heartedly withering look as she set a packet of microwave popcorn on the table.

"I have never worried about shopping. Ever."

[magnusrushesin]

"Not even a lil' bit?" He teased, utterly unrepentant.