The Photo Hut - Thursday

[flamesburned]

Even though Noctra seemed to be doing better than she had been the other day, Liz had been rather reluctant to head downstairs at first but since next week was Thanksgiving, she thought finishing up what work she had left before the holidays probably wasn’t a bad idea.

She didn’t have much work left, thanks to Prompto doing some work on the reports for her so she decided to only work for a few hours that morning before she headed back up stairs.


[the Photo Hut is open]

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[deathsmajesty]

It was a good thing Liliana decided to head to the Photo Hut before work instead of on her lunch break. She poked a head into the store and called, "Hello?"

[flamesburned]

Liz looked up and smiled when she saw her, "Lilliana, come in, how have you been?"

[deathsmajesty]

"Well, thank you," Liliana replied as she swept into the store. "I've been taking care of some business on another plane recently--" since Griselbrand refused to come out and be murdered like a decent person and all "--and between that and assisting with some classes at the school, I've been keeping quite busy. And yourself?"

[flamesburned]

Liz blinked a bit, “that does sound rather busy,” she said, “Noctra was sick earlier in the week so we were busy looking after her, she’s fine now,” she added quickly, “but it was still worrying,”

[deathsmajesty]

"Glad to hear she's feeling better," Liliana said. "One of the benefits of having an order of healing clerics living in our family manor when we were growing up: there was always someone on hand to check out a sickly baby."

She looked around at all the pictures and frames in the shop, smiling slightly. "Anyway, I thought I'd come by and see if you'd had a chance to do...whatever needs doing...for the pictures from Halloween?"

Look, Liliana understood that Liz had taken pictures with one device and somehow they would become pictures on a wall. The interim steps remained ??? however.

[flamesburned]

"Thank you," Liz smiled softly at that and then she looked around for where she had placed the photo order, "I was actually meaning to come by and give these to you," she said as she took out the package with the photos, "the photos have been printed out and I've included an SD card with the photos as well in case you need to print different copies,"

[deathsmajesty]

"An essdee card?" Liliana asked, taking the tiny...card?...and peering at it in confusion. "Print?"

[flamesburned]

"Oh," Liz blinked a bit as she realised the confusion, "um ... an SD card is basically where you have digital copies of your photos, if something were to happen to your physical print copies, I would be able to print these off your SD card for you," she explained.

[deathsmajesty]

Sorry, Liz, Liliana still wasn't following.

"...Digital?" Liliana asked. "And how does one print?"

[flamesburned]

Liz wasn’t exactly sure she was the best person to explain since Prompto definitely understood the technical side of photography better than she did, “oh um … digital is basically electronics … um like technology?” she tried, “like your cell phone or computer? We’ve got it set up in here that we can basically set up your phone and we can print the photos of your phone for you,”

[deathsmajesty]

"Oh! Okay, my phone!" It had been a full year of living on the island sorta before she'd learned about phones from Ignis, the topic of computers still had yet to be broached and, honestly? She was fine with that. "So this little card can put all of these pictures--" she gestured to the package "--onto my phone and if I want more I can come to you and ask?"

[flamesburned]

“I could definitely do that for you, or I could use the SD card on the computer here and …” Liz had been about to start talking about airdropping but realised that might be a bit harder to explain, “there’s a few ways we can do it but basically that card holds backup copies of the photos and I’ll be able to replace your physical photos for you,” she went with instead.

[deathsmajesty]

"Can you make them different sizes?" Liliana asked. "I'm thinking of possibly hanging up up a portrait or two, perhaps."

She opened up the package and started to flip through the pictures. "These are lovely," she said. "And so beautifully realistic. I've never seen pictures this clear."

She was used to paintings and the occasional picture sent to her from Ignis. None of them were like this.

[flamesburned]

Liz smiled, "I'm glad you like them," she said, "and I can definitely print photos in different sizes if you'd like," she added.

[deathsmajesty]

"I shall need frames as well," Liliana murmured thoughtfully. She smiled at one of the pictures, a picture of Nell and Gladio, smiling at each other in the foreground and surprisingly mirrored by Liliana and Ignis in the background. "I believe some of these might be excellent gifts."

She glanced up. "Has Prompto seen these, as well?"

[flamesburned]

Liz nodded, "I showed him the photos when they were printed," she explained, "and we have plenty of frames in stock and in a variety of different colours and sizes," she added.

[deathsmajesty]

"I think this one would be nice to give to Nell and Gladio," she said. "A pity that he couldn't come with you; it would have been nice to get one with the three of them, I think."

[flamesburned]

"That is a nice photo of Nell and Gladio," Liz smiled, "it would have been a good opportunity to get one with the three of them, I'll make sure the next time we're all together that I'll get a photo of the three of them," she promised.

[deathsmajesty]

Liliana chuckled. "I'll hold you to that," she said. "Is that something you all do a lot? Get together? The three of them and the two of you?"

Beat.

"Three, I suppose, counting the baby."

[flamesburned]

Liz smiled at that, "we used to a few times after they got back from Insomnia but after Noctra was born, its been a bit harder for us all to do something together,"

[deathsmajesty]

Weird how those things worked sometimes, you know?

"Babies do complicate things," Liliana said with the vagueness of a woman who had no intention of ever being a mother discussing the effect of children on a life. "Perhaps when she's a bit older it will get easier again."

That made sense, right?

[flamesburned]

Liz smiled fondly at that, "we hopefully will be able to start taking Noctra out a bit more as she gets older," she said, "she's going to be 1 next February, I can't believe how fast this year's gone,"

[deathsmajesty]

Liliana pulled out her phone to see when 'February' was. She was still pretty fuzzy on things like 'dates.' "So what do people on this plane do for birthdays?"

[flamesburned]

"It depends on the birthday," Liz explained, "sometimes you can have a party or if you want to go out for dinner, Prompto and I like to go out to Cafe Fina for our birthdays, if its a birthday like a first birthday there tends to be a birthday party,"

[hashtag_chocobro]

And when Liz did head back upstairs, Prompto was in the middle of preparing lunch, the kitchen all a-clutter without the benefit of him being able to clean up well before she came home, although the loud and boppy music he was usually blasting was something much quieter and chill to be more restful for Noctra, although she seemed anything but as she banged along to the song arrhythmically with a spoon in her high chair. Definitely quiet enough for him to hear the door open, and, frowning, taking account of both baby and cat, who abruptly stopped grooming herself to look toward the sound, stood a moment to listen before poking his head out of the kitchen.

"Babe?" he asked, at first with a wave of relief that it was just Liz, and then with a swell of worry that it was Liz, "everything okay?"

[flamesburned]

Liz nodded, “I thought I could finish my work early this morning,” she said as her gaze went over to where Noctra was banging the spoon on her high chair, “and I wanted to check on Noctra,” she admitted, “how has she been?”

[hashtag_chocobro]

The worried expression on Prompto's face smoothed into a soft, gentle smile, a grateful and understanding one that Liz would be worried. "She's been great," he assured her. "We've been kind of chill this morning, so she can just rest up and stuff, but she's definitely feeling more like normal self again. We were making some broccoli mac'n'cheese for you today! Speaking of which, if you'll--"

He gave her a quick kiss as a beep from the oven sounded to cut him off and he quickly hurried over to pull the garlic bread that was going with it from the oven before it burned...only to then have to quickly toss that down as the pot of pasta started to threaten to boil over and he had to take care of that before it turned quickly into a disaster.

But he managed to salvage it all with a sheepish, almost nervous chuckle. "I swear, it's not usually this chaotic!"

Oh, but it really, really was, it was just far less obvious with an audience that consisted of a cat and a baby.

[flamesburned]

Liz was relieved as she saw that Noctra was fine and then smiled at the kiss as she gratefully returned it.

She watched fondly, “broccoli mac’n’cheese sounds wonderful,” she smiled, “is there anything I can do to help?”

[hashtag_chocobro]

"Maybe grab Noctra's food from the fridge and get her going while I finish up with the pasta?" Prompto suggested, after a second to consider. "I moved some of the stuff Iggy made from the freezer, one of them is the one with squash and kale that she seems to really like."

He snorted, making a face, and then laughed.

"She didn't get that one from me!"

[flamesburned]

Liz couldn't help but giggle at that as she went to get Noctra's food so that she could start feeding her, "I'm not sure where she got that one either, I know I don't tend to eat much of either of them," she admitted with a grin.