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It was a nice night out In Brightwing Lane as Rosalyn got ready for her dinner with Shiya, and with other guests that could be coming as she finished up making dinner, all vegetable and plant related, all she did was just follow instructions instead of doing regular cooking since she was bad It at. Once she finished she put all of the food In her latest invention, a mega freezer. "That was exhausting, now to wait for Shiya and the guests to get here." Rosalyn said as she left her kitchen and headed out to the tree she lived on before climbing down Into the barn, wearing a large green dress with a smaller red one over It.

She climbed down Into the ground floor of the barn, most of the plants were either Inside there stables or were outside star gazing, Rosalyn walked to the entrance and waited for people to appear.

"Now to wait for guests...If there are any."

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    As Shiya made his way down Brightwing lane he had a spring in his step. Earlier today he had finally gotten something to eat (a shop keeper took pity on him and gave him some of their leftovers) so now his EnerGy was full and he was even getting to have dinner with a nice girl. Sure he had originally meant to come for the food, but not going now would just be rude. He'd make it up to the girl somehow, feeling kind of sorry for agreeing to come by the decision of his stomach.

"I hope this wont be awkward." He sighed to himself as he made his was towards the place Rosalyn specified.

    Looking over the large barn, it seemed to be the right place. "I mean, how many large barns in Brightwing Lane with a tree sticking out of it could there possibly be here?" He mused in his thoughts before spotting his hostess ready in front of the abode. Waving towards her in a friendly manner, Shiya gave her his best apologetic smile. "Hey Rosalyn. Sorry if i'm a little late." Shiya wasn't the best with social interaction, so the way he was talking now was the consequence of listening to his best friend's advise.

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    "Alright Shiya, step one to talking to girls. Don't talk to girls." His hypocritical friend, Kazuto's, voice rang in Shiya's ears. "Step two, if you do have to talk to girls, agree with everything they say. Always start a sentence with a complement, chicks dig that. And most of all, always show up to a dinner late so that you can apologize for it; they love being apologized to!"

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    *Sigh* yup those were the days. His friend happened to be dumped by his girlfriend later that day, to Shiya's hilarity. However, it was the only methods he knew of so might as well stick with it.

"Um.. Your clothes look good on you!" He hastily complemented Rosalyn, feeling like he made the conversation even more awkward than earlier.

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Rosalyn watched Shiya appear to her. "Welcome to the barn Shiya." Rosalyn said to Shiya who complimented her dress. "Thanks, I haven't wear them for awhile, well, since nobody else Is probably coming, lets go In." Rosalyn said as she entered the barn. "This Is the stables where most of the plants live In, but were going up here." Rosalyn said as walked up some small stairs towards the upper levels of the barn...And then climbed up a ladder towards the tree she lives on.

"This Is where I live...And a few defences." Rosalyn said as she pointed to two groups of plants, the first of which were sleeping and the second of which consisted of mushrooms scanning the areas while hanging on tree branches, Rosalyn went down a path towards the kitchen and dinner room and quickly entered.

She knew what Shiya was planning, which gave her an idea.

Rosalyn sat on a chair and pulled another beside her out for Shiya.

"Here, sit here...Beside me."

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    Shiya mentally fist-pumped huraah'd that his complement actually worked; maybe Kazuto's advise wasn't bull after all. Giving a warm smile at Rosalyn, Shiya followed her through the rooms of the barn. It certainly was an expansive sort of place; like a barn it had stables for... plants? Up until this point Shiya had been fine with all the weird stuff in this world, but why did the plants live in stables? Were they like horses and cows? This was a matter that would need some pondering...

    It wasn't long until he had followed her past the barn's limits and up a tree into what he assumed to be her take on 'home expansion'. There were plant securities of some sort standing guard in shifts, all in all seeming like a very efficient system compared to Shiya's own "trip-wire-on-a-bell" back home. "This is a really cool place. Did you build it youself." He exclaimed while admiring more of the structuring before they had finally approached the dining room.

    Rosalyn sat down in a seat... and offered Shiya one right next to her for him to sit in. Yup, teenage awkwardness kick in, in 3-2-1...

"U-um, t-thanks." He stammered out, slight blushes appearing onto his cheeks. 

    For a second, Rosalyn looked like she had a glint in her eye but when Shiya looked again she was normal. "Don't look at her weird. It's just a dinner. Not a date. There's a bunch of people coming here to-" His own memory interrupted Shiya mid-thought as he remembered something that Rosalyn said a few minutes earlier. Nobody else were coming!? Urgh, this is why stabbing things with a sword was so much easier than social interaction; especially with females.

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"Thanks." Rosalyn said when Shiya said It must of taken awhile for her to make the barn what It Is today. "That was the first thing I did when I got this barn when I came to the Life Sphere, I upgraded It Into something more on the lines of where everyone sleeps today." Rosalyn said to Shiya as a small cart with the mega freezer rolled Into the dinner room. "And there's our food." Rosalyn said as the mega freezer moved closer to the two as Rosalyn opened the fridge and took out a giant pea, she then put It on her plate and began to eat.

"You can choose anything there If you want, It's all plant related." Rosalyn said, If Shiya looked Into the freezer there would be giant peas, some peppers, cucumbers, mushrooms the size of jawbreakers and healthy drinks In the bottom, Rosalyn soon questioned Shiya.

"So Shiya, how are you, tell me more about yourself?" Rosalyn said as she suddenly opened a secret hatch In the fridge, and took out a big delicious chocolate cake and placed it on the middle of the table.

"That's for desert."

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    Shiya was quite surprised by the large freezer full of giant vegetables. Even for an alternate universe, this must seem like an anomaly. Cautiously picking a large pea out of the freezer and placing it on his tray like Rosalyn, he began studying it and poking it with from a number of angles to figure out how to start eating it. Finally, he just decided to put down his fork and wait to see how she ended up eating hers.

    Rosalyn's sudden question though surprised him. "Tell her more about myself? Huh, well should I tell her all the sad and bloody details or give a general explanation...?" He pondered for a few seconds, unknowingly breaking off a piece of the pea with his fork and chewing on it as he thought of something to say. "Well, like you can probably tell, i'm just a regular old human. No cyborg attachments or godly powers or anything. I can do a little magecraft by manipulating my EnerGy and that lets me make virtually anything physical." To demonstrate, he briefly projected a dagger in his hand before taking a second and dispelling it back.

    "Oh and I can cook pretty good. My best dish is a mushroom curry stew!" He added that last bit with a proud smile, his cooking skills being something that Shiya was very happy at forming over the course of many hours of practice. "But that's enough about me, I don't wanna bore you. U-um... what are some things about you?" He added as an afternote, the awkwardness returning after speaking so fluently just seconds before.    

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Rosalyn continued to eat her pea as the cake smell started to fill the dinner room suddenly, Shiya explained his powers...And that he was a great cook, the first part made Rosalyn interested. "I see, your...EnerGy must be the source of all your powers and the reason why your able to fight outside the Life Sphere." Rosalyn said as she continued to eat. "At least It's not magical, I hate magic and most of the people of this sphere are living a lie using It." Rosalyn said as she sighed.

"What do you think of magic?" Rosalyn said to Shiya, she quickly took out her notepad and wrote something on It before looking back at Shiya, hoping he didn't notice.

"Opinions matter at this table."

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    Shiya was kind of stumped by Rosalyn's question. What did he think about magic? He could tell from her tone easily that Rosalyn despised it, though he couldn't really share her views due to his own. Taking another bite out of his pea, Shiya decided to answer truthfully. "This'll probably sound pretty crazy and hypocritical coming from me but..." He started before swallowing his bite.

"I honestly hate the idea of magic." He said truthfully, his gaze unwavering. 

    "Magic is just the word that people use to try and pass off a phenomenon that they can't explain as a mystical occurrence happening through miracles. I don't claim to use magic, because I can pretty accurately explain what EnerGy is and how it allows me to do what I can do (for the most part). People that say they use magic are just being ignant, or choosing to willfully be ignorant and rely on the simple stupid explanation 'It's magic!'. It's an asinine concept that I don't entertain. Willful ignorance is something I detest..." He finished his explanation with a scowel on his face, but it soon faded away after realizing the tangent he had broken off on.

"Oh, sorry about that. I must look like a real condescending jerk now huh?" He apologized before going back to picking at his food.

    "So why do you not like... 'magic'?" He asked, wondering the reasoning behind the questioning earlier.

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Rosalyn looked at Shiya impressively, he then went on a speech about why he hated magic, impressing Rosalyn even more, before he apologized for sounding like a jerk. "Actually your not, that's actually a pretty good reason for your hatred to magic." Rosalyn said to Shiya as she spoke again. "People use magic as an excuse to explain there powers and why strange odd things happen. magic Is just a fiction element In books people make to profit themselves to unsuspecting teens and children that most people In this sphere copied out of to explain there powers due to living the moment." Rosalyn said as Shiya wanted to know why Rosalyn herself hated magic.

"I hate the fact that I see people showing off there so called powers and happily explain It's magic, It's not...It's just some kind of science there using that they don't want to admit that It's magic. Speaking of science most people who use magic mostly treat people who are Into science like myself and people who don't have powers almost the same as them as lesser beings that are just there to get themselves Into trouble and need rescuing and praise, It makes me angry knowing there's people out there who act so idiotic with there powers." Rosalyn said as she spoke again. "And there's why I hate magic...Oh the cupcakes are ready!" Rosalyn said as she quickly got up and looked down at Shiya. "Pardon me." She said to Shiya as she quickly ran Into the kitchen, If Shiya were to quickly notice, Rosalyn was holding a pen and notepad as she entered the kitchen.

As Rosalyn got out two cupcakes out of the fridge she quickly wrote something In her notepad, she had a page which she divided Into three groups, social, romance & food, so far she had written one thing In the romance and food part of the page.

Romance

Subject Shiya acts like an awkward teenage boy around me, I wonder If It's because he was never that close to a girl before? either way It's annoying me.


The next step Is to use the cupcake test on him.

Food
He mentioned he was a cook In his conversation, why did he bring It up? Maybe he wanted to eat food then actually talk to me...But then again, he seemed to ignore some of nanobot made chocolate cake I brought out of the mega freezer, so that's good.

But what If something happened to the cake and I brought out more food?

She soon began to write something on the social group.

Social

He...Actually shared his hatred with magic with me, and he had a non magical power, so we appear to be getting on the right terms...And his power seems Interesting, I need to get a hair sample.

After writing, Rosalyn took out two cupcakes, one blue and one pink and put them on a plate, unlike the chocolate cake the two cupcakes were not made from nanobots, she had to get Sunny's help on making them but that was the only food she needed help baking, she quickly took the two cupcakes Into the dinner room. "Got the cupcakes, let me get out more desert out of the freezer." Rosalyn said as she placed the cupcakes In the middle of the table like the cake and opened the hatch In the freezer again, this time bringing out hot dogs, pancakes, waffles & popcorn, the sweet smell of the four foods soon filled up the room as Rosalyn also placed them on the table.

"Let's have the cupcakes first, you can choose first Shiya since your the guest of honour, which one, Pink or Blue?"

Which cupcake will Shiya choose?

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Shiya sighed to himself as Rosalyn went into to fetch her cupcakes. Good job going on a tangent bro. It was a good thing though in at least he seemed to have loosened his tongue to finally talk normal with Rosalyn (for the most part). He did initially think it wierd when she went into the kitchen and had a notepad with her, but he ultimately dismissed it as probably nothing concerning him. What was she psychoevaluating him or something!
When Rosalyn finally came back with the cupcakes and even more food, shiya was especially surprised. "Wow, you really pulled out all the stops on dinner. I almost feel guilty for being treated so well." He exclaimed before eating more of his pea, realizing just how little he had actually eaten and spent so much time talking. Wierdly though, something about the sudden mass of meat and junky foods seemed odd and out of place at the table.

"Isn't kind of strange to have all of these veggies and healthy food then a bunch of meat and junk foods?" He asked truthfully, not trying to appear ungrateful. It just seemed out of place, and they hadn't even started on the cake yet!. 

    "I mean, i'll eat some since itd be rude not to. You put work into this meal and I'll be a good guest by eating as much as you bring out to not let it go to waste! " He cheerfully finished before reaching out to pick up the pink cupcake before setting it back onto his plate and getting back to his pea that he had barely made a dent in.

"Thanks again." He said before flashing a friendly smile.

    "So how did you make all this so quickly? You must be a botanical genius or something!" He asked, still thinking that it was amazing how great and well put together this dinner was, not even getting into the giant vegetables.

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Rosalyn was starting to warm up to Shiya...Until he started to talk about food again and choose the pink cupcake, pink...the colour of romance, that means Shiya might have feelings with Rosalyn which made Rosalyn stare at her as she grabbed the blue cupcake and ate Into It, all the while Shiya said he was surprised that Rosalyn made all this different kind of food all by herself. "What can I say, I'm a good cook." Rosalyn lied as she finished eating the blue cupcake.

Soon Shiya wanted to know how Rosalyn built the barn like It was today. "Well If you got friends like the plants, It's actually pretty easy to do this kind of thing In under a week. And with good leadership, all of the plants are so happy here." Rosalyn said happy that Shiya changed the subject and not just about food. Of course, she still needs him to do the final test before she could spend the rest of the night with her new possible friend.

"You know." Rosalyn said as she pointed to the food she placed on the table. "I'll let you eat all that food by yourself, If you do one thing." Rosalyn said as she suddenly took out something from a pocket, which was an apple.

"If you eat this juicy red apple, or we could do something else, like go up to my boat balcony, after all who needs food since we already ate." Rosalyn said slowly putting the apple back Into her pocket. Shiya better think fast on what he wants to do, does he want to eat the apple and all of the food or go with Rosalyn to the balcony?

The choice Is on Shiya's hands...Again.

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    Shiya was starting to warm up to Rosalyn... until she started acting extremely suspicious. First the notepad, then the food, now he felt like just because he picked up a cupcake she was angry at him??? "This is starting to make me feel uncomfortable again... oh I only wish that it were still because she was a girl." He thought while listening to Rosalyn talk some more about her friends and how they built the bar, while noticeably not going into any detail at all as to how. "What am I thinking?" He interrupted his thoughts suddenly. "Rosalyn's just being a good host, and I'm sitting over her calling her suspicious. I'm being silly." He finished his thought before settling down.

    Shiya suddenly did a mental double take at what Rosalyn just said. She wanted him to eat all of the food by himself?! He could barely get through a single pea! Eating all of this was sure to make him explode with food, and not in the good way either. Rubbing the back of his head with his hand with an apologetic grin, Shiya excused himself. "I'm not sure I could eat even half of this if I tried honestly. I guess we've eaten enough if you wanna do something else..." He concluded but stills something was on his mind. "Wait, what's so special about that apple?" He asked as she put it back into her pocket. Something about the way she described it to him gave Shiya flashbacks of a fairy tale he had heard as a kid about an old witch giving a red apple to a girl and making her fall asleep forever... Yeah, better stay away from mysterious apples, even if they were from friends(ish).

    "What's a boat balcony again?" He suddenly asked as he realized this was a new term to him. 

    He paused before taking a few last bites out of his pea, still sadly not finished with it; nor any of the exquisitely delicious looking cakes or desserts left on the table, before pushing the plate lightly away from himself. He really hopes that she wouldn't throw it all away after all, though even with eating so little he was already almost full!

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"Ok, suit yourself." Rosalyn said as she placed the apple on the table instead of putting It In her pocket, she spoke again to Shiya explaining what was so special with the apple. "Nothing...It's just an apple." Rosalyn said as she got up. "So, since your not eating now, we should go to my boat balcony, It's basically a small boat moved at the edge of my tree, like a balcony, I always hang out there with a few friends." Rosalyn said as she walked towards the exit of the tree...Before looking back at Shiya.

She wanted to know If he was coming.

"Coming?"

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    "Yeah, okay." Shiya assured before pushing his chair back slightly and standing up to follow Rosalyn. He smiled at her in thanks once more before walking over to where she hung next to the exit. "I wonder how she got the boat up a tree anyway?" He thought to himself as Shiya followed her, not voicing his question for suspicion that she may be getting fed up with his constant inquiries. All in all though, Shiya was glad that he had come today as he was having an overall great time with Rosalyn. He could tell she was a really nice person and this night was getting to be really fun and interesting.

    "Lead the way."

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Rosalyn lead Shiya out of the kitchen and towards a ladder leading higher In the tree, she started to climb. "The balcony's just up there, It's the only thing up here further In the tree, well that the Mega Sunflower who's lying on the very top of the tree." Rosalyn said as she soon stood on the wooden path towards a small boat on the edge of the tree, she walked towards It and sat on one of the chairs that was on the boat.

She looked out at the rest of the Life Sphere happily.

"Yup, I think you can see all of the Life Sphere from up here, that's what was so great about this balcony, that and I can look down at the plants from down here and see If there doing anything shady." Rosalyn said as she looked down at some plants stargazing.

"Nothing...Yet."