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Temo was having trouble keeping his mirth contained within himself as he tickled her ear along the edges. His lips were contorted in a smile as he fought to not bust out giggling. Every time her ear twitched, he would almost bust out laughing, but he managed to keep it in.
When he stuck the feather into her ear and wiggled it around, he knew she would react, but Temo did not expect her to react so violently. He snatched his hand back and let go of the feather when Jace turned her head and with a squeal, snapped at it. When she smacked him, his ears drooped a bit and then they drooped further with her tirade. Although he did not understand a word she said as she was speaking in her native tongue, he did understand the tone that she was using in her voice.
Quietly, he went back to the sink and cleaned up the area. He wiped the blood off of the counter and basin with a rag and put the feathers in a pan for taking outside to dispose of. It was a few minutes and with her attempts at glaring at him, he could read in her body language and her not trying to smile, that she was not actually mad at him. His ears slowly returned from being drooped as his humor returned to his eyes.
Having finished cleaning up the area of blood and other remnants of the bird from the counter and sink, he rummaged through the cupboard for the bowls and the drawers for the cooking tongs. With the bowls and tongs in hand, he went over to the fire and set them down, ready for when they would be needed. Temo placed several pieces of wood onto the fire and poked them down into the hot coals to build the flames back up and then sat down next to Jace on the sofa to bask in the heat put off by the fire.
"Yes, we should go to bed after we eat," he replied to her yawn with the tiredness of being up all night and all day laced through his quiet voice. He sat quietly on the sofa as he watched her manipulate the tongs in handling the hot stones into the water to make it boil. He watched the steam rise from the surface of the water and billow about her head making swirly patterns through the air.
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