[TAZ] i know i like to draw that line when it starts to get too real

[monstertea]

The problem isn't that the kid is too young to walk himself home, it was the neighborhood. Taako doesn't live in the slums, but his neighborhood isn't really a place for kids to wander around alone, either. Especially a boy detective who does't know how to keep his nose out of other people's business. That's why he's stuck with the kid in the first place, or so he reminds himself when his brain starts to think too fondly of him.

He walks at a languid pace next to Angus, knowing but not acknowledging that he's in no hurry to go home. "You keep working on that mage hand," he says as they walk through a neighborhood much nicer than Taako's. "Just don't go trying anything fancy on your own, little dude." It's a historic area where buildings have been converted into homes and quickly filled by the hoity-toity type of people who like white picket fences and employ other people to take care of their homes. It's easily the nicest foster home Angus has been in yet. So Taako could have dropped him off at the corner, it isn't a neighborhood that sees trouble. He tries to avoid run-ins with Angus's family, but he always has an excuse to see him to his door. At least with this neighborhood he has the easy excuse that it's just interesting to look at the houses, to answer Angus about what each building used to be. Yeah, he knows shit, too. He's just trying to remind the kid that he isn't smarter than him, he's not trying to impress him.

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[monstertea]

Taako gives himself a high-five mentally at Kravitz's reaction. No, he imagines a fucking majestic unicorn with two horns that gives him a high five. He does not focus on the word cute with relation to Kravitz; he doesn't do cute. But whatever Kravitz is, it's doing it for him.

"That should be all until Taako's taken a look at the place," Merle answers, sliding out of his own chair and stepping aside the desk. He mutters something about elves needing self control.

"I'll be in touch if anything is needed," Taako adds in and he only doesn't bat his eyelashes because Merle's already going to spend the rest of the day harassing him.

[solarisirius]

"Alright, thank you for making the time to meet with me," Kravitz says, giving a little bow before opening the door and making his way out of the office and then subsequently the store. While he likes to think he's above picking a place to do his landscaping because of who happens to work there, he absolutely fucking isn't, and finds himself very glad that he decided to go with Dirty Plants instead of one of their competitors. Otherwise, he probably wouldn't have ever had the opportunity to run into Taako again, which would have been the worst kind of shame possible. Instead, he's just going to remain stressed out about impressing the elf for the rest of his natural life, which is fine. Totally fine.