Eridan didn't know if he wanted to laugh or to cry. On one hand, the Pailing Drone as just a few hundred yards away from his hive, its gray metal pails gleaming maliciously from reflected moonlight. On the other, Feferi was on her way and had agreed to be his matesprit earlier in the night, long before he had known the Drone would be knocking down his door. Her promise had been a dream come true, so of course it had come just in time for his life to be in danger. Just, of course.

'Damn.' he thought, "Feferi REALLY had to hurry up or she'd be matepsritless before having the chance to consummate.'

Having gotten Eridan's string of frightened messages not even five minutes ago, Feferi had to swim as fast as she was able to reach Eridan's hive ahead of the drone.

Of course, she had known the drone would be coming for Eridan first. After all, she was the heir to all of Alternia. Sure, she had given up her right to the throne by running away and exiling herself for life, but the drones still recognized her as their superior. As such, they wouldn't come to her, demanding her genetic material. Oh hell no. When she was ready, she would call to them and they would come on bended knee. The problem was the same couldn't be said of her matesprit or kismesis.

"I'm here Eridan!" she called out as she slipped through the back door while ignoring the sounds of the drones trying to break into the hive somewhere up ahead.

Hearing Feferi's voice, Eridan almost cried out in relief. She was here, his life would be safe, and best of all, he would finally make his relationsip with Feferi official in all senses of the word. "Oh thank God, you're just in time, those things are at the front door, trying to break it down."

Even as he spoke he was clumsily trying to step out of his pants while stumbling towards the door to let the drone in. The whole situation would have been comical if not for the fact that his and Feferi's life were in imminent danger. And while lesser trolls might have broken under the pressure, Feferi and he were a different breed of troll. They were sea dwellers, they were, literally born to work under pressure.

Just barely hiding a giggle at Eridan's clumsy attempts to multitask, Feferi followed after him, completely at ease despite the impatient sounds the drone was making even as it was let inside the hive hardly a moment before it would have broken down the door.

Without making a sound, the Pailing Drone shoved its bucket at them before taking a step back. This was a clear sign they had to get going or get dying, so without hesitation, Feferi stepped forward and caught Eridan's in her hand, smiled widely and than turned his head so they could look one another in the eye.

As the drone entered and than waited in the middle of his living block, Eridan tried not to stare at it. Just about the last thing he needed to do was give the thing an excuse to cull him for stalling or some other imagined offense.

In the moments between the drone entering and it shoving the bucket at them, he had managed to get his pants down, and was trying to do the same to his boxers when Feferi grabbed his chin and twisted his face toward her.

One look at her beautiful but hungry, fuschia tinted eyes eyes was the only sign Eridan needed to know what was coming. So, after he calmed his heart after it skipped a beat or three, he began to lean in knowing Feferi was going to do the same.

Feferi smiled warmly as Eridan leaned in for the kiss, just as she had known he would

"Oh Eridan." she whispered softly her lips just centimeters from his. "If only there was someone who pitied you."

With a laugh that would have put the Imperial Condescenion to shame, Feferi turned and began to walk away from Eridan, the shocked, fish out of water expression on his face the last she saw of the other troll before the Pailing Drone descended upon him.

"It's almost tuna bad he has to go belly up." she mused to herself. "But, at least Gl'bgolyb will feed well tonight."