"Hey, Willow..." Lillian greeted, curiously looking at the woman who was currently in hiding.
The dark mage silently nodded a greeting back as she stuck to the side of the tent like glue. Somehow, she ended up in the crevices of two of the set up tents while trying to conceal herself from the open. Unluckily for her, a fellow tactician just happened to pass by. They are known to take notice of their surroundings after all.
"Is something up?" the woman asked as she looked away from Willow and leaned on one of the tents.
'... No... Nothing wrong, Miss Lillian,' she said in a not so loud tone.
'She's too inaudible sometimes...' Lillian sighed. "If you say so, but if there is something the matter, please note Robin, Chrom, or I. Hopefully you aren't becoming another Lon'qu..."
'Do not fret.. This is an important matter to me, I say beg of you to not say a word to Henry,' the woman requested, a look of worry in her eyes.
Lillian noticed Gaius looking at her and decided to send a note flying over to him after writing it down on a piece of paper. Thank gods for her skilled levitation she didn't have to throw the note or head over his way awkwardly. Quickly reading the note, the man nodded at Lillian and hid the paper.
"I promise," the female tactician replied as she left.
'Thank you,' Willow thanked as she watched her get called out by Stahl.
"Willow! Hey, Willow, are you still in camp?" Henry called, sounding a bit worried.
Again, no actual change in his face expression, but a new step forward for Willow when she noticed the differences in his tone now to the usual.
"Gaius, have you seen Willow anywhere?" he asked with a large grin on his face.
"Dolly? No, I haven't..." he replied as he stuffed handful of candies into his mouth. "Pulheash ashk Worggaholick."
"Repeat?" the man asked Gaius, confusion written in his word.
Gaius held up a hand for a moment as he swallowed and sighed in content.
"I said ask Workaholic. Maybe she knows."
"Oh. Yeah, okay," Henry replied, walking off else where.
'... He's still not upset..' Willow thought, examining Henry.
After waiting a minute longer, Gaius walked over to the woman's hiding spot and motioned her out of there. Willow silently stepped out and looked around several more times until she heard the sweet toothed theif chuckle at her.
"He's gone already, Dolly," the ginger assured her. "Did something happen to you both? I've never seen you run away from Sadistic before.."
"Nothing happened," the woman replied. "I assure you."
The man hummed curiously as he dug out a piece of candy from his pockets to hand over to her, sending a smile as he held it out.
"For you. I don't know what's up between you both with Sadistic running around looking for you and you just suddenly disappearing from our sight, but I hope everything goes well, unless I am wrong."
Willow blinked and ate the candy in a clueless manner as the theif stared back, suddenly going red and noticing that he was off a minute later.
"Sooooo... It's not that kind of way?"
"What way?" the woman asked innocently.
"I'm sorry.."
Patting his shoulder, the woman shook her head slightly and silently sighed.
"I don't know why you're apologizing for, but it's okay."
And with that, the dark mage turned and left in the other direction Henry disappeared off to. Well, except as soon as she left, the male dark mage suddenly came dashing back and tackling her to the ground with him underneath. Gaius stared a little awkwardly at the two and scratched the back of his head nervously, just slowly slipping away from their sight.
'I didn't expect him to get back here so quickly...' the theif muttered.
"Lilli, wouldn't tell me where you were, but I found you!" Henry exclaimed as he chuckled.
The woman struggled to get out of his grip but gave up after knowing that she was locked into his tight grasp, giving out and laying on him.
"Again, are you uncomfortable being tickled?" the man asked with a wider grin.
'No,' she mumbled into him.
"Oh? Heeheehee... If you say so...!" said Henry who excitedly began poking her all around.
The girl flinched and blushed at his touch around her waist and neck, her eyes widening and then shutting them closed tightly. She was ticklish, yes, but she needed to keep it in until she finally get him to frown at least once until she gave up. Burying her face into him to hide her flushed face, Henry giggled and sighed as he stopped and pat her head.
"I've never seen anyone resist as long as you do...! They always give out on the very first day!" Henry told her as he sat up and let her go.
The short woman looked up directly into his face and blinked shyly which caused Henry to feel a tiny flutter in his stomach.
'Hm? ...I think I'm sick... Oh well..' he thought as he kept up his grin.
"Hey! What are you guys doing sitting in the middle of nowhere?" a short blonde haired girl called, her messy pigtails bouncing around as she trotted over.
"Just playing around, nyahaha!" Henry laughed.
"Playing? Playing what?" Lissa asked excitedly, her blue eyes glimmering a bit.
'Errr...' Willow said quietly as she looked at Henry.
"I don't really know actually, nyahahahaha!" he cackled, causing Willow to sigh and shake along with his heaving chest.
"Eh? Well okay then.." the princess said, blinking at them blankly. "Sooo why are you playing around here?"
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The two dark mages looked around to see a few of their allies pass by and smile at them both brightly or as for Virion, who is still going around flirting, not noticing them at all.
'How awkward...' Willow commented meekly as she got back up onto her feet. 'Please excuse us...'
"There you go again apologizing for no reason, dear!" Maribelle called as she walked over to the small group. "Chin up! There's much more you need to learn about yourself!"
'... I...'
"Uhpupup! There you go again!" the troubadour interrupted.
Willow immediately snapped her mouth shut and looked down at her feet.
'...'
"Don't look down. It's okay!" Maribelle chuckled.
"Hey, you can stick around with us! Maybe we can help!" Lissa suggested, grabbing Willow's wrist.
Willow slowly nodded until Henry also decided to reach out and grab her free hand as an instinct.
"Sorry, but she has plans with me today. Hexes and curses, ya know?" Henry somewhat lied, smiling calmly.
'I do?' the female dark mage thought.
"Oh... Sorry!" the cleric said, letting go of Willow. "Maybe later then!"
Maribelle only suspiciously eyed Henry as he stood up and brushed himself off.
"Didn't you do that yesterday too?" asked the woman in pink.
"We didn't finish," he chuckled. "She'll be free tomorrow however, nyahaha!"
"Then we can stay at my tent for tomorrow!" Lissa exclaimed as she clapped her hands together.
Maribelle nodded as they began to leave, however, she was still giving Henry a suspicious glance back as she departed.
"Hm..." hummed the suspecting Maribelle.
"Henry, you just lied to them, didn't you?" Willow asked curiously.
"Yep!" said he.
"Why is that?"
The woman was clearly fine with what he did since it didn't hurt anyone, but she just wanted to understand why he did it.
"I don't know! Why did I?" he laughed, making her sigh. "You're not going anywhere until this is over!~"
'I can see that..' she muttered softly.
The woman turned away from the male dark mage and rubbed her arm to calm down a chill that suddenly ran down the limb he held on. Without knowing, Henry, still smiling of course, reached over to one of her loose wavy locks and brought it up to his face, stopping about an inch away. Just what was he doing? Even he was unsure about himself.
"Henry?" Willow called as she turned to face him.
"Ah. Yeah? he replied with a grin, quick to hide what he was about to do earlier.
"My wrist..." she told him nervously.
"Oh. Sorryyyyyyy!" he apologized childishly as he let go.
He allowed his hand to slip off instead of suddenly pulling away from her though.
"What to do to make you smile, hmmmmmm," he hummed, rocking back and forth on his feet. "Crows? I attract many so that wouldn't be a problem at all!"
Willow shook her head silently as for she had always thought of crows as black birds who carry death around. If crows surrounded him so often, did that mean he was near death? Then again, she's just overthinking things once again. The woman didn't notice Henry disappearing else where as she thought to herself until he called her.
"Willow, look!" he exclaimed.
The woman snapped out of her thoughts and looked over to where she heard his voice. Henry, from head to toe, was covered with black puffs of feathers, crows to be exact. He was laughing and smiling as he ran around like a child playing around in a pile of leaves during fall. Willow raised her eyebrow as she watched him roam around, scaring others along the way not for what he was doing but for the cloud of birds.
"Wheeee heeheehee! Roarrr!" he exclaimed playfully.
"H-Henry..." Libra called nervously as he passed by caustiously.
"I'm sorry.." Willow apologized as she bowed to Libra.
The feminine looking man only smiled in response and pat her head to get her back up.
"It's quite alright," the priest chuckled as he looked at the entertainer.
"Oh! I can't see!" Henry said as a crow flew into his view. "Ah, oh well!"
Willow sighed as she watched Libra walk over to the cloud of black and waved the birds away. Henry now had scratches around his body where his skin wasn't covered by any sort of cloth.
"Ahhhh, pain...~" he said quite blissfully.
Chuckling nervously, Libra held up a healing staff over the male dark mage, bright light taking over the small wounds. Willow headed over to Henry as she thanked Libra quietly, grabbing Henry's big pale hand in her smaller lightly colored one. The man was still laughing to himself as he lapped up his own blood that the tiny cuts left back on his free hand after being recovered which slightly bothered Willow.
"Henry, please don't do that.." she asked him.
"But it's blood."
"All the more reason to not lick at it...!"
Henry then stopped and wrapped his arm around her small shoulders, leaning over her carefully.
'Then should I lick at you instead?' he joked quietly, his face near her neck. "Heeheehee! Just kidding! Don't be so tense!"
The flustered woman released her breath as she turned around to frown at her ally who was still smiling as always.
"Those kinds of joke won't make me laugh you know?" she said sternly.
"I'm well aware..!" Henry confirmed, letting out a laugh again.
Robin then came over to the two as he watched Henry laugh to himself with Willow looking at him tiredly and just standing there.
"Hey, looks like you guys are having fun," Robin chuckled.
Willow looked up at Robin with a face that told him, "Please don't encourage this man any further..." in which he understood immediately.
"I'm looking for Libra right now. Have you seen him anywhere?" the male tactician asked before Henry said anything, going straight to the point.
"We were just with him a moment ago!" Henry annouced. "Oh, and how was the night with Tharja?"
Robin cringed a little as his brown eyes darted around the area to look for the said woman.
'I didn't even get to sleep...' he muttered disappointingly. 'I also devised a plan to sleep over with Chrom or Lillian, but I'm afraid she'll hunt them down for this if she finds out... Most likely.'
Willow shook her head and held a finger up to her lips as her eyes scanned the campsite.
"Might as well not say a single thing about it," said the woman as she looked at the same dark figure of the busty dark mage. "Besides, I don't think she'll really attack her own allies just like that. I may be wrong."
Robin was now sighing a heavy one as he looked behind him to see what the woman was looking at.
"Need a curse?" Henry suddenly asked.
'Anything to get me relaxing and stress free again...' Robin sobbed.
"Then please get a blood sample of hers and yours for me. Just a small drop would do fine!" said the smiling man. "Oh and don't forget the galds..."
"Wait, what?!"
Willow then jumped in and shook her head, disapproving Henry's idea.
"Don't do it. Please don't do it.." Willow requested shakily.
"I won't, don't worry. But that's crazy... From her? I think she'd make me do something before getting it!" Robin exclaimed with wide eyes.
"Awww, too bad! Well, I'll be returning among my businesses with Willow here, but if you ever change your mind, I'll be around!" said Henry as he walked off with Willow.
"They make a weird team..." Robin commented as he scratched the back of his head. "No.. more like a weird couple..."
"Day two... Another failure!" Henry said excitingly instead of mad. "This is fun... but we're both failing hardcore, nyahahahaha!"
'Why do you get the easier job...?' Willow asked herself quietly.
"I heard that...~" Henry cooed, causing her to jump. "It'll be all over if you smile!"
"It'd be over immediately if you frown now...!"
"As if I'll do that! That's too easyyyy! Besides, it doesn't even fit me!"
It was true. It certainly didn't fit him, or so Willow thought. He then decided to pick her up off the ground again and giggled. She knew what was coming up next. Their newly planned run around camp Henry decided to do at least nearly everyday.
"Time to train! Another round around the camp for day two!" he declared.
"W-wait, no! Two rounds yesterday was enough!" Willow said as he dashed off. "Henryyyy! This isn't trainingggg!"