Lea has always liked the high places. After being friends with him for so long, Isa has learned that the redhead is just as comfortable on the rooftops of Radiant Garden as he is on the ground. Isa himself doesn't quite see the appeal of climbing up onto the roofs, risking injury and admonishment, but he does it anyway. "Because we're friends, after all," is what Lea always says when Isa wonders aloud why he so often goes along with him.
Today they've managed to find their way onto the roof of Cid's house, and the idea of irritating the town's often cranky engineer just adds to the fun of the situation, at least according to Lea. They make their way as quietly as possible across the roof, clutching the bars of sea-salt ice cream that they'd bought earlier from Scrooge McDuck, and sit on the edge of the roof to look at the view of Radiant Garden below them. The day is coming to a close; the sun is setting over the mountains in the distance, spreading red streaks across the sky as it sinks below the horizon.
"Hey, Isa," Lea says, after taking a few licks of his ice cream. "Bet you don't know why the sun sets red."
Isa only gives a murmur of inquiry as he tries to keep his ice cream from dripping onto his hands.
"You see, light is made up of lots of colors," Lea continues, adopting a mock scholarly tone. "And out of all those colors, red is the one that travels the farthest." He laughs and takes a bite off the corner of his ice cream bar, a habit that makes Isa's teeth cold at the very thought of it.
"And where'd you find out something like that?" he asks, knowing that Lea is far from the scholarly type.
"I heard the two scientist-brains talking about it," Lea replies with a shrug. "You know. Even and... what's his name. The short one."
"Ienzo," Isa supplies. Ansem the Wise's apprentices are fairly well-known around Radiant Garden, especially Ienzo, the prodigy who's even younger that Isa and Lea. "Never expected you to want to be such a know-it-all," Isa continues.
"I don't. Who wants to sit around doing experiments all day anyway?"
"Good point." Isa doesn't say anything for a moment as the two friends continue to eat their ice cream together. "Hey, Lea?" he asks finally.
"Hm?"
He stares down at his ice cream that has been part of his and Lea's daily routine ever since "Uncle" Scrooge started selling sea-salt ice cream in the marketplace. "Promise me that this will never change."
"Hey, what's got you so thoughtful all of a sudden?" Lea teases. "'Course nothing'll change. Because we're friends, got it memorized?" He laughs, slinging a playful arm around Isa's shoulders.
Isa too gives a small laugh. "I guess you're right."
"Hey!" comes a sudden gruff yell from somewhere below them. "I thought I told you kids to stay off my goddamn roof!"
"Aw, man," Lea groans, swallowing the last of his ice cream and throwing the stick down with a clatter. "Better make a run for it!"
And as he and Lea make their mad dash across the rooftops of Radiant Garden, Isa sincerely hopes that Lea is right, because he doesn't know where he'd be without these moments of friendship between them.