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A momentary light shined on us

Who; Nida

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What; Gardening & tattoos
Where; Their house
When; Early March
Warnings; None, will change if needed

Ignis was outside in his back yard. The winds hadn't that bad today and it had gotten a little warmer outside so he took advantage of the warmth and had gone to visit some gardeners on the back of his chocobo. Now he was back and had plenty of coffee at the ready along with his diagrams, and the green notebook that Llewellyn had gifted him with full of notes.

As for his mount, the chocobo was grazing nearby with plenty of fresh greens and water. The bird was always rewarded well for carrying the royal advisor wherever he needed to go. Some would even go so far as to say it was spoiled and Ignis would never tell.

He himself was dressed in black pants and boots, and was wearing a black satin button down shirt with black laces threaded through the sleeves. In preparation to this task, he had rolled them up past his elbows. Various plants sat on the ground in ceramic pots, arranged as he planned to plant them. Taking another sip of coffee, he then put his black gloves on and had his gardening tools ready.

"I daresay this is going to take quite a bit of work today and I need to make dinner tonight, so I'd best get started."

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"I daresay you're over dressed."

Nida, home from a shift of guard duty, entered their little guarden, Hibiscus walking proudly at his side. She was a growing bird, the chicobo already up to Nida's waist, and with them stopped she was preening affectionately at his unbuttoned uniform coat.

It had been a long shift for him and the bird both, started the night before, and involved one of Hibiscus's first sets of training with a saddle, not that she was old enough to ride yet. But the first training saddle had been made, and she'd worn it for a few hours in her stable at the guard house, and was clearly tired. But hey, that was life sometimes.

"Give me a minute to get her cooled down and in the stable, and let me change, and I'll come help."

At the sound of his husband's voice, Ignis automatically smiled. He then saw Hibiscus walking alongside her gorgeous Dad and he took a moment to take a mental picture of them both. While photography wasn't his hobby as it was Prompto's, he still could appreciate a nice live photo when it presented itself.

He smiled at his husband. "Well you're lucky I wasn't still wearing my hat from earlier." the advisor said, gesturing to the tan hat with a white feather on it hanging behind him from the tree.

But he nodded. "Take your time, and I'll be here when you get back darling."

Is it a photo if it's live? Probably not. There were arguments to be made.

"Oh?"

He lifts his eyes to the hat and then laughs in delight. Yes, that was quite the hat. What a choice. He grabs the hat and then heads inside. Sorry, this whing would be best inside if it wasn't being used.

It takes about fifteen minutes, but he's back out soon in a linen shirt and warm pants, and he moves to Ignis's side.

"Hey my life. How can I help?"

Ignis no sooner noted where the hat was when his husband up and stole it. Of course hats weren't something he normally saw Nida in and decided that hat might be brought to bed later because his husband was sexy in it.

In the meantime while he's waiting, he's busy getting his diagrams out. One featured a wheel of herbs and an alternate was something like a shelf. Flowers were sketched in another part too and he'd carefully catalogued all of the things he'd purchased and where they were going to go.

Turning when Nida's voice was heard again, Ignis leaned over to kiss the man. He'd never been called someone's life before but he loved it. "I'm just about to start digging around in the dirt."

Oh come on now, of course he wasn't sexy. Or, at least, he didn't think he was in a way that the hat would enhance. But he wouldn't deny his beloved anything. Not a single damn thing.

When he returned he was happy for the kiss.

"Do you know where things are going?"

"Yes." Ignis replied, handing a few sketches over to his husband. They might not be perfect like Nida's were, but they were rough drawings and labels. One had the herbs more or less designed to be in a circle, and he had a patch for flowers.

There was also plans for a tree and perhaps a small fish pond as well.

"It seems like it's a lot but I'm sure once it starts, it'll go quickly." However, he wanted to check in too. "If you think it's a bit much, I'll always take your input."

They were good drawings. Nida wouldn't have managed all of this. So he was definitely impressed.

"No, it's good. It's really good. Show me where to dig, babe. Let me help your wonderful scheme."

He laughed a little and gestured with his little spade at the ground. "Well I thought to start here with the herbs, so in case it rains, they'd be the easiest to procure." And he was going to have to learn how to shelter them from storms, but that was something he might inquire with either Llewellyn or Aerith regarding.

So he turned and grabbed a few of the herbs in their little ceramic pots and set them down in a wheel shape.

"Something like this I thought might work best."

"I recognize some of these," Nida says in shock. He's learning the kitchen slowly, and seasonings. And seeing things truly growing is so interesting. He smiles and nods to them. "And we're doing them right here?"

"Why yes." Ignis replied with a nod. "Though I must confess I've never done this sort of thing before, but I thought to try my hand at it and see how it goes. " He reached down to take a sip of his coffee and then set the cup back down. "And there's nothing quite like fresh ingredients, so we'll see if it all turns out well."

"Given who you are, you'll succeed," Nida laughs, moving to start digging a hole. "You are driven to make the things you try as great as you are."

"I appreciate your vote of confidence darling." Ignis smiled. He had some experience back home with vegetables, but he'd made Noct do most of the planting. The advisor read things and loved to stand over the king's shoulder and offer advice. But here he was doing herbs which he thought might be a little more delicate than planting carrots and such.

Still, he knelt down with his spade and brought his sketches down to help visualize what he was attempting to do here.

"I will always vote confidently for you," Nida teased with a wide grin.

For now he kept working at his hole.

"You know, I'm sure there is a joke I could make here, about getting down and dirty with you."

"I know I can count on you to always have my back." Ignis replied softly. It was one of the many reasons he married his handsome husband after all. The man was simply everything he could ask for in a mate.

Still, he was a little startled as his husband made his innuendo because Ignis could just dive into something so serious and not think about much else. So after a moment he smiled. "You're certainly welcome to do so when we're done."

"And your front," Nida answered with a grin. He could have as many sides of his husband as the guy wanted him to have. Which was a lot.

"When we're done," Nida agreed. Which they had barely even begun to do. "OKay, I think this hole is deep enough. I hope?"

Ignis found himself blushing slightly even though he shouldn't. Some days he still couldn't believe anyone would flirt with him, let alone someone as handsome as Nida. Yes he was aware they were very married, and even then sometimes he pinched himself to make sure he wasn't dreaming all of this up.

"Yes of course."

But he looked up long enough to see what his husband was referring to and nodded. His mind was going other places with the hole and deep question, but he kept it to himself. So he reached up and handed a small potted plant of parsley to him." "Yes."

And then he went back to his dirty mind and digging.

Nida would flirt with him shamelessly when given the chance. He truly did love his husband and wanted the man to feel that love. TO understand how amazing he was.

"This smells good," Nida said, taking the clump of soil that was the root ball from the pot. "I think we use this to cook. This is... parsley, right?"

He's learning. Slowly but surely he'd been learning, and coming to love this.

He looked up and nodded with a smile and no small amount of pride in the man he'd married. "That's precisely what it is. Hopefully we don't encounter anything that might eat it when it grows up a little."

Ignis wasn't sure what wild life might be found around here, but he figured with a garden around, they were going to find out.

"I've a few more plants of that along with some Oregano and Parsley. I thought we might as well have fresh herbs to cook with." And he was looking forward to being able to harvest the little plants too.

"If you're worried about it, perhaps we could make light mesh nets to cover them? For safety?"

Yes, he was trying to think about how to protect Ignis's precious plants.

"It's a good plan, actually. What do we do if we don't use them fast enough?"

"That sounds like a splendid idea." Ignis replied, looking over at his husband with a smile. That was something he hadn't quite thought of, yet it would solve some pressing worries.

He had to laugh slightly at Nida's question. "Then I suppose we can simply pawn some of them off on Llewellyn and his husband."

Or he could start taking them to the Lodge. They'd be used up pretty quickly there. But then again maybe it wasn't a bad idea to try and plant a garden there as well.

Of course there might be more than a few fluffy bunnies to deal with there.

"Sounds like a plan to me," Nida said with the biggest smile he could manage for his sleepy state. Which was still rather large.

"The Lodge might benefit too I think. You should consider it."

"I will do just that." Ignis replied. He managed to get a few more holes dug and then started to get the spaces prepared for planting. "This will be quite the project both with the planting and the harvesting. But I'm rather glad we have our own space now."

"I can help harvest," Nida offered. HIs love spent plenty of hours at the Lodge which made a lot of sense. He wanted to pull his weight around more here.

Their own space is a wonder. And Nida had never expected it. He pauses for a moment and looks up at the house.

"I haven't lived in a proper house, that felt like mine, since I was a child. There are all these new memories to make. And it makes my heart swell."

Then he looked to Ignis with a smile.

"Think we could maybe do a berry bush in the corner?"

Green eyes looked up at Nida and Ignis smiled briefly. "Well I fully expect you'll want to do some of that when the time comes." He turned to look back at his current planting project and listened as his husband spoke about a proper house and new memories to make.

"We'll give you plenty of those here." And of course he couldn't help but smile back at the one he was getting. The new idea had him pause a moment and he looked over at it briefly. "Indeed. What kind of berries are you thinking of?"

"I don't know," Nida admitted, even as he started a new hole. "I don't remember actually."

He knows they were there when he was a kid.

"Berries in the forest. I remember going into the forest to gather them. I don't remember much more."

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