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Ash snapped his fingers.

"You got it!" he said, quickly stepping out of the room.

"Ohhhhh boy." Lindsay mumbled.

"I forgot JUST how excited he gets when he has someone new to cook for." he told Rowena with a chuckle.

"Then again, it's far better than his previous method of trying to impress people." he then said further. "Trying to hunt down the things he did, just to prove a point? Scares ME, and I have less reason to be scared." he mumbled.

"SO glad he has a nicer way to brag."

"You're very welcome." Ash responded.

Leo then nodded at the Fyranes there.

"All right, talk to you later, Lunet! Bye for now!" he said.

When she responded in kind, she heard what sounded like sand, before silence.

"And he's gone." Lindsay said.

"You want any food or dessert to take home with you?" Ash then asked Lunet.

"Ah." Leo said.

"I don't think there's anything left for me to do there, actually..." he realised. "I should really seriously start on my designs for Lunet's ocular aide." he then reasoned with a nod.

"Lunet, you okay to be sent home alone?" he asked Lunet.

"If so, I'll head on back to my own home." he told her.

"If you'd rather I went with you, that's fine too."

"Excellent." Leo responded.

"Anyway Lunet, I'm good to go when you are." he told Lunet.

"Don't be stranger." Ash told her.

"I'd love to see you meet everyone else that lives here." he said sincerely.

"I think that'd be a wonderful idea." Lindsay agreed.

"Maybe you'll meet our Aunt Rocky as well." he posed.

Leo sat down in a chair next to Lunet, and looked at Rowena.

"Thank you again for helping with her hair." he said.

"Would you mind terribly being Lunet's go-to hair stylist?" he asked her.

"And Lunet, would you mind that?" he then asked Lunet.

"You DO do good work." Ash told her.

There was a bit of a stunned silence throughout the room.

"...woah." Ash finally mumbled.

"Yes! Right then!" Leo exclaimed, making his way over towards Lunet and Kitt.

"Kitt, Lunet has to be going now." he told the feline.

"Thank you for taking care of her." he said with a smile.

"...eh?" Ash muttered.

"San Diego?" he asked.

"Never would have guessed." he said further.

"Would have assumed you're from Hollie's neck of the woods." he went on.

"...Wales." Lindsay clarified.

Ash laughed again.

"Challenge accepted!" he responded.

"All right, all right." Leo said, as Lindsay took the dessert tray from her so she could move a little more freely.

"I get the feeling that Kitt would like to see you again as well." Lindsay commented.

"So if you want to just come and drop by for a visit, you're more than welcome to do so, as well."

"Be sure to give him a call to let him know you'll be heading back really soon." Leo told her.

"And know you're always welcome here." Lindsay then said. "Whether it be having an appointment with Mom, or decided that you want Ash to try and fill that bottomless pit of yours." he chuckled.

"I'll do it, too." Ash commented.

"I'll make SURE you're full by the time you leave." he laughed.

Ash paused at her 'messy' comment, but Lindsay interjected before he could say anything.

"I helped sort things out, don't worry." he said.

"Got it." Ash muttered.

"But yeah, it's truly awesome about cheesecake." he chuckled.

"Regardless, perhaps we should be headed back soon, Lunet." Leo then said.

Lindsay raised an eyebrow.

"Your tone and phrasing speaks more than your words." he said.

"But I shan't pry." he said further, as Ash returned and dropped the fish by Kitt's mouth.

"So!" he said.

"How was the cheesecake medley?" he asked Lunet.

Lindsay scratched at his chin for a moment.

"A bottomless pit, huh?" he asked.

"She IS a mage with VERY potent passive mana, after all." Leo told him. "And when they get to be teenagers, their stomachs really kick into overdrive." he said further.

"...teenager?" Lindsay mumbled.

"Hang on, you're a teenager, Lunet?" Lindsay asked.

Lindsay chuckled again.

"Hey, you're always welcome to come back here." he told her.

"You heard it before, Ash loves having someone new to cook for." he reminded the girl. "So if you ever feel like you want to broaden your culinary horizons, give us a call." he suggested.

"Just... we need to make sure Ash will be here." he then said.

"His job takes him away from the house, and has him gone for sometimes weeks at a time."

Lindsay was silent, before shaking his head.

"Ash, you..." he muttered, making his way over and getting closer towards her.

"You did." he told her.

"Sometimes Ash gets so excited he loses track of certain things." he said further.

"That was the chocolate one, yes." he repeated, before handing her a napkin and helping her wipe her hand. He then made sure she had the small fork, and guided her to another piece.

"This is the raspberry one." he told her, as she went through each small piece of cake one by one. When she finished the last one, the pain-jane, Lindsay took the tray away and set it down on the nearby table.

"So how were they?" he asked.