Nico's voice was shrill, annoyed. Maki glanced up from her phone. Nico was pacing back and forth in front of the windows in their apartment, the lights of Tokyo in the background, her phone about to be thrown violently into furniture. Maki recognized the mood. Overexposure to social media. Time to distract the petite powerhouse.

"Seen backstage: Nico Yazawa doesn't use color contacts. She actually is a red eyed freak…these are the worst pictures Maki-chan, plus on this one they put a flare filter on my eyes…Alien…or vampire…I look great in black and red, how did they manage to wash me out…urrrr…lesbian? Lesbian?"

"Good guess?" Maki winked.

"Why does that have anything to do with eye color?"

Maki chuckled and placed her phone on the table, "You're right. Lesbian eye colors are jewel tones, everyone knows that. The Book Of Nico Ni, Apocrypha, may use red eyed freak as your epithet, but The Book of Yazawa Nico uses the more accurate, Yazawa Nico, ruby eyed goddess."

Nico stopped, arms dropping to her sides, "Goddess?"

Maki glanced down, "Ummm…no…umm, I meant person, cute person, sexy person."

My sexy, silly person, Nico thought, enjoying Maki's blush, moving behind her to rest hands on her shoulders. Maki was fidgety. Nico pulled her into a hug.

"What about flower colors? Lilac. Violet?"

"Apocryphal." Maki announced. Her only move at this point in a conversation like this was doubling down.

"Apocryphal?"

Maki nodded. "A false trail. Or for other orientations. Bisexuals maybe." She could still win this. "Instead, go with a more traditional precious stone. Nishikino Maki, amethyst eyed…"

Oh. Maki's brain breathed in her ear.
"Goddess?"

"No…ummm…not uh…"

Nico squeezed, laughing. "Oh, Maki-chan, you're adorable."

Maki leaned back into Nico's embrace. "I've been listening to the Fate/Apocrypha soundtrack."

"That's why you pulled out that word. Nico frowned, fast forwarding through recent conversations, "You're working on that game soundtrack commision."

Maki nodded.

"We are all still Muses." Nico popped a kiss on Maki's cheek.

"Always." Maki reached up to caress Nico's.

"Let's hit up the group chat for dinner. See which jewel eyed goddesses are hungry."

A/N: Apocryphal came up and I went with silly.