Festival of Petals

After Julius's sudden appearance back at the company it had the youth thinking on many things, such as how the two had never bonded. It wasn't like he was the most social person in the company, sure he could sell ice in the glaciers but that was his job; socially he was inept and he was fully was aware of this but had been trying his best to change this. Biting his lip he stood from his spot at the back of the company which others have come to call his space and so avoided it almost like he it was a personal space, where this may have been the case to many people to Ruvel it wasn't his. He still didn't believe he owned anything that he was given or earned, the only pay he had ever spent was on a bundle of flowers, a hair pin and some material to make clothes. It was yet another thing he was working on but that was an on ongoing issue and not valid at the moment. It was only a moment or to later but he had made his way into the company, he was wearing his normal clothing which was of a white mandarin suit his name, rank and the company symbol on his arm in ice blue silk thread and white shoes.

"Perhaps a job?" he spoke to himself as he headed to the large board of requests, sure they where a traded company but they where still mages and so accepted jobs like any mage guild would. 'What kind of job little brother?' came Maera's voice, in honesty he had no idea what the other would like, he didn't know much about the other. He was once a vice president like he was now and a water user but that's all he had to work on. 'I don't know, perhaps something easy? He might be rusty since his vanishing act.' he sent back to his summon his hand moving forward, he didn't have to worry about much these days but still he wasn't wanting to take anything to hard. "This?" he whispered to Maera 'That's an A rank, the one above it is advertising a flower festival in Rose Garden... why not just socialise instead of using a job as an excuse little brother. You're being silly.' she sent to him biting his lip he nodded and headed to the home the company had provided for Julius.

It had been around a ten minute walk before he reached the gate, as he got to the gate he internally felt anxious and stopped feeling like a fool. "What am I doing?" he scolded himself turning to walk away but stopped walking back only to turn and walk away again. This happened a few times before he paused at the gate once more "This is ridiculous..." he sighed trying to centre himself and before to long it worked and so opened the gate heading to the door, another deep breath later he knocked on the door. He wanted to leave but it was to late to turn back, didn't stop him hoping the other wasn't home. "Mr. Seas are you home?" escaped his mouth before he could stop it, he was now wondering what the hell he was doing, it was just plainly stupid.

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Ruvel stood at the door for a moment longer, his heightened picking up the slight noise on the other side of the door though couldn't make out what exactly what it was or even if it was a person. he was sure that the other would just have ignored the door if he was in fact home, after all he had the day off and given he had been away for so long he was sure the day to day tasks would be taking their toll on the elder male. It was when he had turned and was about to start walking off that the door began to open and he heard Julius's voice making him stop in his tracks and turn to face him. Moving his hand to his chest he moved forward a little in his normal manner, he was still not fully broken from the bowing thing but Cirven and his summons were at least happy enough with this as a compromise as it wasn't as bad as what he once had done. "Good morning Mr. Seas, I am sorry for disturbing you so early." he said calmly unsure if he was doing it right but he was trying, that counted for something right?

"I realised earlier that we didn't get to know each other when you had been here before..." he trailed off his eyes glancing away, he had never been good at making eye contact, he only ever remember making eye contact with Cirven once in all the time he had known his elder brother, even Masha the girl he had met at the wedding that they protected from being crashed had only had his eyes contact hers once. He had no idea why this was the case, he knew it was something to do with his past, the smaller male just had no idea if it happened before or after he ended up at the hell that he was raised in. "I didn't want to make the same mistake again." he confessed looking up just a little "I was thinking a job would be a good idea but my big sister thought a social event would be a better setting..." he said holding out the flyer that had been on the job board by accident "It seems Rose Garden is having the festival petals soon, I was wondering if you would like to go." his tine was neutral as he spoke, he would understand if the other said no, he had tried so his summons could tell Cirven he was at least trying to get better outside work.

'What the hell am I doing?' he thought to himself, he felt like a fool asking but nothing could be done now that things had been set in motion. Had the other sensed the other for magic it would be almost like he had not changed a single bit, his magic would still seem none existent. As much as Ruvel would like to say that this was because that he was holding it back it wasn't, it was due to how the magic he possessed worked, well that the experiments and the fact he was born flawed. Not that he could tell anything about the others strength or magic had he not been told in the past. 'You're doing fine little brother, have a little faith.' Maera sent to him breaking his train of thought a little smile creeping across his face for a nano second before it was emotionless once more as he awaited the others answer. 'Thanks big sister.' he sent back to her, he didn't feel that much better but he knew she was trying to put his mind at ease so that helped a bit to know he wasn't doing this alone.

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The trading company did have a reputation to uphold and so where those in higher management hated the formalities it was something they had to deal with for the good of the company. Ruvel realised that he himself was always overly formal but his mind had set ways of dealing with things, rarely did they ever venture far from those much to the dismay of the others he worked with. Julius had known him from her for his extended absence and had even held the position he had now as Cirven's first in command, it made the youth wonder if he was rolling his eyes internally at how he was acting or even screaming at him to stop it. Outside the formalities required to keep clients happy everything was relaxed, then again he was formal with everyone in the company only calling two people by their first names. The two being his elder adoptive brother Cirven and the man he had come to have a suicide pact with by the name of Rasparov, on hearing Julius's voice he came out of his mind and looked to him a faint smile on his face as he was glad to hear his sudden early morning attendance at the others door was fine. He did feel rather bad having disturbed him though.

Hearing that the other was just about to have some coffee and offered to give him a cup he brought up his hand, facing the palm towards the other he shook his head "Thank you for the kind offer Mr. Seas but I do not drink coffee. I have only ever drank water." he explained his voice warm and calm as he did so. it was his last sentence that seemed to catch him off guard 'Did he just call me hun?' he knew it was a word for endearment but why would the other be using it with him? Wasn't that something saved for a person's significant other? perhaps used on the opposite gender? What ever the reason it had confused him that was for sure not that he had shown any signs of this externally. He had explained about the festival of petals and even about wanting to get to know the other better, so now all that he could do would be wait to see his reaction. How dumb did he feel right now, it would be beyond humiliating if the other declined his offer just for the sake of it, but then it was his day off and he may have had other things to do or plans. "Sorry, perhaps I should have called ahead instead of turning up unannounced." he said his voice sincere as he spoke.

Ruvel nodded as the other agreed that they never had spent any real time outside of work, internally that made him glad as the other had noticed also. Ruvel still hadn't made eye contact with the other, several members of both the company and guild had noticed the same thing when it came to him. He could pretend that he was making eye contact but that was in a more formal setting, this was informal as far as he was aware so wasn't going to bother to try and hold the pretence that he was keeping eye contact. He wondered if the other was going to call him on it like he knew that many others had wanted and Cirven had on quite a few occasions, if he did he would explain vaguely why he didn't but he didn't want to get into to much detail about his past. He knew to much information would likely lead to questions and those questions wouldn't be good in the long run for the youth. "I was thinking that we could visit the Rose Garden and enjoy the festivities." he said with a content smile, internally happy the other was taking the time to speak to him at current when he knew he had disturbed him.

He scratched the side of his head as the other seemed to think it was a job flyer he handed him and not an advertisement for the festival itself. "We are just going to enjoy things, it's your day off after all." he chuckled lightly, it however came to an abrupt end as he heard another voice and though he had disturbed him while he had another guest, that was until he seen squabbles "Hello squabbles. I am fine thank you. I'm glad to see you are in good health also." he said calmly his attention turning towards Julius once more "We should get to the airship as it leaves soon Mr. Seas." his voice showed no real emergency and he would wait until the other had done what he needed before he moved towards the company airship boarding without any issue knowing that the other would have followed.

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