Okay, but are they dating?

Donut 2026/04/07(Tue)04:39 No. 1124719 ID: 89e385
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The tiny adventurer's guild room is strewn with stitched clothing and a few non-urgent, cheap-postage, non-urgent mail and packages. They’ll get delivered soon, right, Apricot?

Autumn and Apricot snooze atop their latest bean bag advertised as talon-proof. Truth is often somewhere in the middle.

The pre-dawn light hasn’t even begun to creep up the horizon. New delivery envelopes have already been pushed under our sleeping contractors’ door.

Who awakens first?
1. Fairy College graduate Autumn, with honors in horticulture! Responsible, caring and nurturing. Tends to let things slide to keep the peace. Has been called a shrinking violet (and worse). Responsible for enchantments and planning.

2. Sparrowlark wing-kin Apricot, deliverybird and daring dive-bomber! Earnest, expressive and spry. Tends to underestimate risks. Has been called a scatterbrain (and worse). Responsible for speedily transporting her cargo and companion.

Autumn
Time to get culturing some hortis! (That's what doing horticulture is called, right?)

apricot. proceed to divebomb autumn as your nature calls for.

autumn

Apricot wakes up thinking she just claimed the Orb of Happiness when she ends up throttling Autumn by mistake

Definitely Apricot, we've followed plenty of fairies, but only one bird.

Autumn wakes up from a nightmare in which Apricot tries to eat her! Shocks her so much that she wakes up flying away from Apricot, and hits a window. Ow!

Apricot

apricot

>>1124719
Daww.
Cute.
Autumn is an honours graduate and definitely the kind to wake first and get things ready for her partner

Autumn!

Apricot

Apricot, they don't call em early birds for nothing!

Autumn wakes up first

An unrelated third party who has yet to be introduced!

Yay, the adventure returns!

Autumn, she's the responsible one.
The only one who remembers how to handle nagical artifact known as the Fedex.

It is said that if the Fedex is mishandled even ONCE, it will curse the deliverer, who will no longer be able to work with that or any Fedex again, and is relegated to lesser deliveries from then on.

Such a clumsy, cursed deliverer is apropiately known as... an UPS!

Apricot 2026/04/08(Wed)05:03 No. 1124836 ID: 89e385
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I wake up at exactly the same time as my fairy companion. Gosh, we’re so in sync, it’s why we make such a good team! That and the contract, but that’s just paper. Autumn is such a nice fairy, and none of the stuff my friends back home said I should worry about ever came true. I’m so glad Autumn and I are friends!

Big streeeeeeeeeeeetch… today’s gonna be great!

I hop off the bean bag, being careful not to catch my talons on it. I can’t afford another one… not right now. I need to save up to buy another pair of snip-proof shorts after Aífe stole my last pair. She’s NOT my friend right now. Maybe Taranis can convince her to give them back to me if I ask nicely. I shouldn’t have spent so much money on this nice nightie… but it’s so cute!

“I’m gonna go take a shower!” I chirp to Autumn. She doesn’t respond. What’s up with her? She’s holding a new envelope that got shoved under the door.

“Ah… um, c-could you wait a minute, please?”

I pause halfway out the door. “But it’s so early, I’ll have the shower all to myself. I’ve got super bedhead”

“Well, I guess, but…” Autumn clears her throat. “Um, no! This is… really important, actually!” She holds out the letter and it’s marked:

EXTREMELY URGENT

“Whoa, nelly!” I gasp. “That must’a come in overnight! No shower for me. C’mon, gimme! We gotta deliver that before the sun comes up so we can get the overnight deliver bonus! We just gotta go inter-city, right?”

“Well, yes, but… do you want to go out like that? In… your nightie? And…”

“C’mon!” I urge. “Really, how many people’re gonna be out before the sun even comes up? And you don’t know any godmothering spells, it takes forever to help me get dressed.”

Autumn wilts at that. She hates when I bring that up. I feel a bit bad at that, but it’s true. I really do appreciate the help she gives me getting dressed, it would take even LONGER than forever to get dressed in fancy city clothes without her help.

But WE GOTTA GO! It’s URGENT!

What do I say next?

1. “C’mon, the more time we spend talking, the longer it’ll take! No one’s gonna see us! Grab on and let’s go go go go go!”
2. “I’m sorry, I didn’ mean to make y’ upset. Could you please help me put something on? Working t’gether we’ll be quick n’ be done in a jiffy!”

1, EXTREMELY URGENT means there's no time to waste.

1. wrap blanket around shoulders for extra cape fashion. you'll still be fancy!

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1! Urgent is urgent! No time to waste!

You need the traditional delivery uniform: A cap, and a purse worn on the side.

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Explain to her that not only it’s too early for people to wake up and see you, you will both be flying! Who looks up often anyways?

2) You're a team, and there's always someone about even at night. It only takes one sighting to start a reputation.

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