#// this has made me realize my severe lack of volk blushing icons

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@avacynthia asked : "Valentine's Day is nearly two weeks away, you know," Cynthia mentions offhandedly, a light smile playing on her lips as she follows Volkner through Sunyshore's complex power plant. (Completing inspections, making the rounds...all of that falls under the Champion's exhaustive purview.)

"Do you have anything special planned for Roark yet? Please tell me you do--I won't tell a soul, of course..."

Refined as she is, not even Cynthia can call herself immune to a little gossip. Within moderation, naturally.

Honestly, in moments like this, Volkner is just busy trying to focus on the task at hand and get it over with to actually afford himself the luxury of drifting off lost in his own thoughts. And hey, to his credit, he's managing pretty well all things considered, even when it's taking an active effort to stop zoning out just to get through faster and move on to better things to do— and well, he's pretty certain Cynthia would agree on that regard.

He's so distracted in just his efforts to make sure he's going through all the motions correctly, in fact, that at first Cynthia's words don't really register in his mind, sort of nodding along. At first. And then he stops in his tracks, fumbling and nearly dropping the pen in his hand. Blink. That is certainly an interesting shade of red aggressively tinting his skin.

( of all the things to ask, of course— )

"I—" well, fuck. That certainly does a great job at diverting his attention from the thing they're supposed to be getting done. "Not— concrete plans? It's not like we tend to go overboard or anything, just getting him to take the day off will be an effort on its own already." Actually, he should ask about that, huh? Let's see if he remembers after this is over. "We'll probably just sleep in, make breakfast and laze around before dinner or something—"

Wait, why is he even entertaining this?!

"Why are you even asking that—?!" Oh, he's never hearing the end of it now—