"Tell me again how this is a game?" Alice asks hating the empty feeling she felt as soon as Robin's hand left her own

"It's not really I'm trying to help you learn how to focus your magic." Robin corrects unzipping the gym bag shed brought with her.

"Okay but why can't I do that and be closer to you at the same time?" her girlfriend wonders "To give you some incentive to concentrate on what you're going to do." Her archer answers taking the lighter from the pocket of her sweatpants.

Alice had to admit as strange as Robin's clothes are sometimes, they did complement her curves in the most distracting of ways. What Robin had told her were called yoga pants and a form-fitting shirt sleeve shirt that when Robin stretched up when one of the lanterns floated a little too high making her shirt rolled up giving Alice a nice view of a strip of Robin's toned back.

When Alice didn't stop pouting, Robin expanded not realizing the pout was for the loss of the view of the glimpse Alice had had of her lower back than the blonde girl really being upset about what they were doing not being a game. "I saw this in a movie back in Storybrooke and I thought it would help you." She explains walking in a wide circle around where Alice is standing lighting every one of the paper lanterns she had her aunt enchant for her so they floated on their own. "Actually, now that I think about it, I think Mulan was in it."

"Really? Hang on what's a movie again?" Alice questions with a laugh of her own.

Robin giggles tucking a lock of hair behind her ear as she answers, "It's kind of like a play except the actors aren't in the same room and you can watch them even ever you want to."

"Got it." Alice nodes her eyes following Robin's every move as her girlfriend lights the last of the eight lanterns circling around them in the wooded space. "So, what are the rules for this game of yours Nobin?"

Robin pretends to be annoyed at the sound of her nickname as she unpacks an old rifle case she'd converted to carry her bow and a few arrows. "How many times…." She grumbles testing the weight of her bow against her hand.

"Eight hundred and seventeen." Alice says before she could finish "Nobin." Alice adds flashing that smile Robin loves so deeply. "Rules love?"

Robin takes a steadying breath fixing the carrier she'd fastened to her belt "It's easy. All you have to do is keep the flames from going out."

"That's all?" Alice laughs

Robin nodes "And for every lantern, you 'save' you can take a step closer to me."

Alice's smile widens at the news "So after this, I'll be close enough to touch you?" again Robin nodes ducking her head to hide the start of a blush at Alice's enthusiasm "What's from keeping me from getting closer to you right now?"

Robin wasn't ready for the flirtatious question, but she did her best not to show just how much she was affected by how dark Alice's ocean colored eyes got as they met her own. "Cause that would be cheating and it would spoil the game." The outlaw's daughter says gripping her bow tighter at the half smirk Alice gives her making Robin's clothes incredibly hot and itchy against her skin.

"How could I pass up a chance to best the most talented archer in the realm?" Robin rolls her eyes at the taunt while quietly cheering at the praise, but Alice wasn't finished speaking "Only question if there are eight lanterns I'm meant to be protecting then why are we twelve paces apart?"

"You're not besting me I'm helping you find your center between your emotions and your magic." Robin corrected spinning an arrow between her fingers. "Ohh you noticed that huh?" she asks as if she's just realized that herself. "Well, it would be rude to just jump in without letting you practice just a little before our little game."

"Fair enough." Alice agrees rolling out her shoulders "Let's do this."