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[wutaiheart]

It'd been one of those nights where she'd kept herself up, running and jumping and flipping, training until she couldn't even stand. The last thing Yuffie remembered was letting herself flop down in the sand with a water bottle not far off, feeling the warm pressure of Cloud the chocobo settling himself down next to her for the night. They didn't

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[lily_ofthefield]

Lily had only been walking on the beach, but she came to an abrupt stop at the sight of the two bird-like creatures, only pleased that there was someone -- and someone she knew, no less, if under slightly dubious circumstances -- was there with them and that they weren't running wild on the island. She had a tendency to get nervous around strange animal-type things, even ones so presumably innocent as these. It wasn't her fault.

"Woah," she said, eyes wide, as she somewhat hesitantly approached Yuffie. "Are both of these yours?" She was pretty sure she'd seen one of them around before, but definitely not two.

[wutaiheart]

"You bet! One's named after Cloud and I haven't named the other one yet," Yuffie said. It was black, so maybe Zack? Of course, naming it after Sephiroth would be the funniest.

Huh, she'd never noticed before that her two favorite brooders were dating women of the chocolate persuasion. Maybe that was just some kind of thing they had.

[lily_ofthefield]

Knowing that they were Yuffie's, Lily could relax a little, if maybe not as much as she'd have liked. She'd been warned, after all, to be careful around her. She smiled, though, stepping a little closer. "Got any ideas?" she asked, glancing over at the two bird-things again. "They're kinda cute."

[wutaiheart]

"They're not just cute," Yuffie enlightened her. "They're also extremely useful, smart, and clean. Way better than horses, and better for the Planet than cars and motorcycles." For someone who'd gone on and on about stopping Shinra, Cloud sure did forget there were other threads to the Planet, like his penis-enhancement-mobile.

[lily_ofthefield]

"So you can use them like vehicles," Lily guessed, her voice lilting up almost into a question. While they didn't have people riding on giant birds back in Manhattan, Yuffie had listed some pretty good reasons for why to use them. "That does sound pretty useful. They have these a lot back where you come from?"

She hadn't questioned Cloud too much about the place herself. They each knew enough: she about where he was from, and vice versa, especially now that he'd seen the end of that video they'd taken.

[wutaiheart]

"Yeah, depending on where you go. You didn't always use 'em in the depths of Midgar, but sometimes. They were pretty helpful in cleaning shit up after Meteor."

Cloud butted his beak into her shoulder, and she patted him.

"This guy was one of the ones I used for that."

[lily_ofthefield]

Lily didn't recognize the names of any of the places named, but she shrugged anyway, smiling crookedly when Yuffie patted the animal. "And that's the one you named after Cloud?" she asked, just to be sure. She was pretty certain, though, that it was the other who had no name yet.

[wutaiheart]

"Yep. On account of how they look alike," Yuffie said. In which case, it would only be fair to name the other one Zack. "But he's way friendlier than then the Cloud you know, I promise. More... outgoing."

[lily_ofthefield]

"But I bet he doesn't talk more," Lily quipped, lightly teasing, her smile broadening. She didn't have much of a problem with how quiet Cloud was. It was a pretty big difference from Jason, and she liked that. She had no reason to want to hold on to what she'd left, and what she hadn't, back in New York.

[wutaiheart]

"Just barely," Yuffie snorted back. "Man, if Vincent ever gets here... he's the only guy ever who could beat Cloud at being moody and broody! It's really pretty amazing. I guess that's what they learn at Shinra training...."