Rouge stretched before launching into her morning kata. It was a good thing that she wasn't the delicate lady she played at being. She was quite capable of roughing it when the situation called for it.
She was also grateful that she was a bat-mobian. (Not that there were many of them. She knew she wasn't the only one... but she'd never met another bat, herself.) She was quite comfortable sleeping while hanging upsidedown from a tree. A neat way to avoid possible sleeping the wrong way on hard ground. Although she probably surprised Knuckles when he found out she wore contacts for myopia...
Of course, she also knew better than to contradict Knuckles when he insisted he leave to go forage for something for them to eat this morning. The last of the Echidna was in a foul mood. And worse, Rouge had only herself to blame for this mess. Not the best way to start a relationship, either a professional or personal one.
Of course, she thought, if Knuckles had been approachable by normal means, she wouldn't have had to go to such lengths to inform him she was interested. (Neatly ignoring the fact that if he had been so easy to get too, she probably wouldn't have been interested...)
It might have been a mistake to explain all the details of her vision to Knuckles... but she thought not telling him might be a bigger mistake. Still, Knuckles did not take the idea that some higher powers thought he was doing a terrible job at his life's work very well.
With a sudden burst, Rouge finished her kata with the Screw Kick, spiraling upward in her most powerful martial attack. Flipping and landing - perfectly, as always - she realized Knuckles had returned.
Knuckles' face was impassive as he threw some red berries to Rouge. "Eat up. We need to get moving. I felt a Chaos Emerald nearby, so lets get this over with."
Rouge frowned. Well, fine! If that was the way he wanted to play this, she could accommodate him. "Certainly," she replied, equally brief.
The berries, she found, fit the mood perfectly.
They were sour.
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