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RESPITE GENERATOR - MORNING
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Cavro has been slowly breaking his word to Erika, though while their time together means a lot, he feels both could use some time to themselves as well. Well, he mostly seems to vanish when Fiora is expected to be around, despite actually wanting to meet her. Today he's opted to follow up with May, knocking on the door to the generator room with a mild smile on his face.
Maybelline answers fairly quickly, looking a little haggard and clutching a ceramic mug filled with coffee strong enough that Cavro can smell it. She slowly smiles as she recognizes the badger, though. "Hey, Cavro, uh..." She looks up at the sky, "Good morning? Uh, yeah. Morning."
Cavro indeed catches the smell of the coffee before the door is fully opened, tilting his head a bit as he sees May come into view. "Ah! Good morning miss miss miss May... You sound a a a bit tired, have you not been sleeping well?"
Maybelline shrugs, "Nah, it's fine, just stayed up late... uh, working on stuff. What's up? "
Cavro scratches the back of his head, chuckling a bit. "Nothing much, I I I was just curious about how the generator is working, and maybe a little curious about the the the progress on your grand project."
Maybelline grins, waving Cavro inside. "Oh! Sure! You haven't seen the finished product yet, have you? The plans are actually what I was working on last night, as I'm working on the final draft now."
Cavro nods, entering the large room. "Ooh, that does sound like it it it's healthy!" He looks to the temporary generator, listening to it thrumming along.
Maybelline sets her hands on her hips, staring at it in pride. "Sure does. She's putting out three point six percent higher output then my estimates too, at last measurement."
Cavro grins, nodding. "I'm proud to have been able to to to help create it. Really, it's all your design, though." He steps up to it, peering closer at the generator from different angles as he walks around it. "Nothing's loose or cracked, good!"
Maybelline grins, "A mix of good design, high quality parts, and and no short amount of effort on all our parts... but the next step will be a lot more impressive." She chuckles, walking over towards her drafting table.
Cavro follows May over to the table, nodding. "I'd say it it it was better than just a good design... Ooooh~" His eyes widen as he sees the considerably more complex plans lying on the table.
Maybelline motions across the current blueprint, an almost finished layout of one of the larger components. "Heh, like that? I'm taking my time to actually lay it all out properly. Proper plans and everything. And I'm thinking I can supply a proper build order too that'll let us go step by step."
Cavro leans over the print, taking in the details, a glimmer in his eyes. "Oh, this is going to to to be an interesting challenge! I'm looking forward to seeing the rest! I... Just don't know when I'll be able to start on any of it."
Maybelline frowns, "Right... Erika?"
Cavro feels his smile slip a bit, nodding. "I ah... Reacted very poorly when I I I saw what had happened to her... But I don't want to leave her side for very long, she deserves the support. Even the guard are supporting her, they're supposed to to to be sending a group soon, I think."
Maybelline nods, "Th-they've left. Yeah..." She glances away. "I'd heard she was sick or something from Louma, err... the Captain in charge of this expedition."
Cavro nods, thinking for a moment. "Ah... Captain Louma is the the the snake lady, yes? She's very hard to please, I couldn't make a a a spear she liked. I didn't know they had already left, though. Hopefully they can find something out there."
Maybelline chuckles, "Hard to please...?" She shakes her head, "I hope so to, both for Erika's sake, and so she can be back soon." She swallows, "Uh, Louma and I started dating recently, so... I've been worrying a bit since she left."
Cavro blinks, grinning. "I guess I'm even more out of of of touch than I thought!" He loses the grin though, making the connection. "I I I mean, she's a guard captain. She's got others with her, right? They'll be fine." -Probably.-
Maybelline nods, "I know at least one of them. She said she was taking her best trackers along. I just... wish I could have done more to help them prepare, or supply them better, or something!" She sighs, "Sorry, here I am worrying about Louma when Erika is sick. They know what they're doing out there way better then I could."
Cavro sighs, shaking his head. "Yeah, I I I know how you feel... I've been worrying about Erika so much... About how this is is is going to affect her if she's cured." He looks to the side, speaking quieter. "How the whole thing is going to affect us."
Maybelline hesitates a moment, still not very good at all of this stuff, but trying really hard to be strong. She shifts away from her drafting table and steps closer to Cavro, awkwardly holding out her arms to hug, "Hey... it'll be okay. They'll find what they're looking for, they'll be back before we know it, Erika will be cured, and you and she will be fine."
Cavro looks to May for a moment before accepting the hug. "I hope so, for her." He wipes at his misty eyes, shaking his head. "I just feel kind of of of useless. She appreciates me being there, but it it it feels like I could do more."
Maybelline hugs Cavro for a moment before letting him go. "I've got some of the plans finished with full breakouts if you want to take those with you and review them alongside her?" She shrugs, "I uh, this whole relationship stuff is still new to me, sorry. I think knowing you care, knowing you will be there when she needs you, that's plenty."
Cavro smiles weakly, nodding as the hug ends. "Maybe you're right. I I I worry too much. I'm sure that Louma will be be be back and very happy to see you, too." He chuckles, glancing aside. "Maybe I'll take another try at at at making that spear for her as a thank-you gift for for for helping Erika."
Maybelline gives Cavro a thumbs up, "I'm sure she'd appreciate the attempt at least, even if she is uh, hard to please." She manages to giggle at that last part. "None of these generator parts are on a timer like the temp generator, so no overworking yourself either this time. Goes for you, me, and Brun."
Cavro tilts his head, then chuckles nervously and blushes as he catches May's meaning. "Ah yes... Ahem. And I appreciate knowing that, I I I'll take my time this time around, I promise." He looks to the stack of plans, "So which ones are you finished with for now?"
Maybelline walks around to the side of the drafting table, pulling out a few blueprint tubes and walking them back to the table, "Well, these are the ones I've got finished. I can walk you through the design and we can pick out a few places to start..." She opens one up and spreads it on the drafting table, beginning to talk through how everything should work and the parts needed.