Clover: [awkardly] So…uh… why don’t you tell me a bit about yourself?

Granite: I’m a big lover of animals. I sometimes even rescue wildlife.

Clover: That’s really amazing, actually.

Granite: Well… it was really just once. A raccoon. It may not have need rescuing so much as… I thought it was cute and cuddly.

Clover: A racoon, huh? They are nature’s alley cat. What was that like?

Granite: Uh… he didn’t like to be hugged as much as I like hugging him.

Clover: So… he clawed your face up and you had to release it back into the wild?

Granite: Pretty much.. 

Altair: Welcome gentleman, and thank you so much for giving my dear friend the change to find love. She really needs all the help she can get.

Clover: Altair, I swear to berry–

Altair: [clears throat] We’re going to give you the night to settle in, but tomorrow we’ll jump straight into it! First, up will be a chance for each of you to get to know my favorite gal a little better with speed dating! Then we will all be hitting The Roller Rink for a group date. So sleep well, gentleman, and I wish you all good luck!

Clover: [hushed voice] Altairpleasedon’tyouleavemeIcan’tdothis– 

[Altair elbows her in the side]

Clover: I look forward to getting to know all of you!

Eilif: Hello little bird. It’s so nice of you to join me in the realm of the living. Does this mean that you have reconsidered my offer?

Flora: Perhaps. I have a condition.

Eilif: A condition? How bold of you.

Flora: There is someone… I need you to promise me that no harm will come to them no matter what.

Eilif: A member of The Rebellion, I presume?

Flora: Do I have your word?

Eilif: Hmm, you are an intriguing girl. Fine. I will give you my word. 

Slap.

Flora: Just what the hell do you think you’re doing?!

Rune: I don’t know. You said… you thought about it. That we kissed in the dream so I just thought–

Flora: Well you thought wrong!

Rune: I get that now. I’m sorry!

Flora: You better be! I can’t believe you would misread the situation so horribly. I’m heading back. Don’t follow me!

Flora: Don’t be stupid, of course not. I… think you were there on a mission or something but we were being watched and [talking really fast] so you got really close to whisper to me but when you touched me I was taken somewhere else where you kissed me and now every time I’m around you I can only see that and–

Rune: Did you like it?

Flora: Excuse me, that’s entirely beside that point–

Rune: I guess you aren’t giving me much of a choice here.

Flora: Wait, don’t you–

For a moment, her whole world fell away. Her skin was on fire with excitment and she wanted nothing more than to wrap herself up in the warmth of that moment for eternity. But that moment was fleeting at best and in the back of her mind she heard the whisper of words spoken to her not long before. 

“The moment that this becomes more than a locked up dream inside of my head is the moment is the moment it becomes her death sentence.”

Her heart dropped into the pit of her stomach as she realised exactly the consequences of this action. 

Flora: I’ve never seen Millhaven be so quiet before… 

Rune: Most people aren’t crazy enough to walk around in the middle of a snowstorm.

Flora: They’re missing out. It’s beautiful here.

Rune: As much as I enjoy talking about the weather… how long are you going to avoid talking with me?

Flora: Geeze you really get to the point, don’t you? [sighs] After

Rune: It wasn’t mine, was it? That would be…embarrassing… 

Flora: No! It was someone else’s. W-wait? Why would it– ohmygodRune. That’s not it at all!

Rune: Hold on! I think you have the wrong idea. I just mean… [awkward groan] it would be embarrassing to have someone know your innermost thoughts. So… if it wasn’t mine, whose was it?

Flora: …It doesn’t matter. But you were there… at a party… human. 

Rune: I wasn’t always a vampire… is this why you’re avoiding me? Because that seems silly.