Waves Resort & Spa, Saint James, Barbados [Thursday Morning/Afternoon]

[shapethecentury]

Hope you weren't too hungover from any time-honored partying that may have happened on Wednesday night, because Thursday was a new day with new experiences eagerly waiting for their... experiencers.

Look, it was another great day in Barbados, was the point!

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Re: Bajan Walking Food Tour

[chef_chocobro]

"In my experience," Ignis murmured back wryly, "the only good Leviathan is a dead one that remains that way."

He certainly wasn't going to be convinced by evoking a creature that shared the name of the god at the crux of the one of the worst days of his life, Liliana.

"Now, have a bite of this fish," he said, offering out a sample of it to her, "the spicy gravy is incredible. And if satiating your hunger for good food still doesn't dampen that desire for dredging up the dead of the deep, perhaps I could sway you with a small field trip would temporarily assuage you."

Re: Bajan Walking Food Tour

[deathsmajesty]

Any leviathans she reanimated would be under her control, Ignis!

"What field trip?" Liliana asked, leaning in to take the bite. "That gravy is good, but I want to know about the field trip."

Clever Ignis. There was no way the food would have distracted her, but poking her curiosity certainly would.

Re: Bajan Walking Food Tour

[chef_chocobro]

It was almost as if he came prepared, or something, and a small smile that he wasn't doing a great job of hiding surfaced.

"Well," he offered, "a bit of research has revealed that the island is a bit lacking in the sort of tombs we've been able to enjoy on other excursions, and it isn't much by the sound of it, but there is one rather well-known for some very curious activity, indeed. It could very well just be the work of elaborate pranksters or dedicated deviants, but, in the event that perhaps it might not be..."

He offered out another bite to her.

"Hardly the spectacle of leviathans and drowned sailors," he admitted, "but surely worth a bit of investigation, wouldn't you say?"

Re: Bajan Walking Food Tour

[deathsmajesty]

She leaned into the bite on reflex, eyes wide and filled with a kind of wonder that had nothing to do with the cuisine. "My darling," she said softly, "you looked up tombs for me?"

Yes, he had brought her to Steyliff Grove for her birthday, but that was a crypt he'd already been fully aware of. It's doubtful he would have ever heard about this one unless he'd deliberately gone looking for something of the like.

Re: Bajan Walking Food Tour

[chef_chocobro]

The softness of her tone worked its way into his smile, as well. "Of course I did. At this point, one of these trips without a venture into some monumentum mortuorum would simply feel incomplete."

And if it also swayed her even just temporarily from wanting to raise whole pirate crews on a whim, then all the better.

Re: Bajan Walking Food Tour

[deathsmajesty]

The next thing Ignis would be tasting was her lips and mouth as she leaned in to kiss him, deep and fervent. "I am very glad that we broke the ice on saying 'I love you' months ago," she murmured. "It would be quite embarrassing were the first time to be in a restaurant as part of a food tour with strangers, but I don't think I could have helped myself." Her hand skimmed over his face. "I delight every day that you are mine..."

She leaned in for another kiss, the follow up "...and that I am yours." was whisper soft against his lips.

Re: Bajan Walking Food Tour

[chef_chocobro]

The kiss had caught Ignis slightly off-guard, as well as the ardent outpouring, because, for him, the effort had truly been as natural and evident as breathing, as easy as their constant dancing in step with each other. But when she kissed him that second time, he melted into it with a grateful sigh, stepping closer, hand sliding around her waist and taking a moment to breathe in the scents around him to remind himself that they were hardly in the privacy of their room or the quietness of secluded part of the beach.

It would be a while, before he responded, although Ignis liked to think he was saying plenty without words.

"And I certainly strive," he finally said, mirroring her hand on his cheek with a brush of his own against hers, "to keep it that way."

Re: Bajan Walking Food Tour

[deathsmajesty]

"This is the last restaurant, right?" she checked. "Because as delicious as all this food is, we have somewhere else to be."

Could be a tomb. Could be their hotel room. Could be anywhere without prying eyes. Liliana was flexible.