[hands her some fresh flour and butter for pie crusts, looking hopeful]
Taking the ingredients eagerly, she beams at her benefactor, already getting to work.
“Oh, thank you, dear! We had run out! Looks like we’ll be eatin’ well tonight after all! Now as for the fillin’… we’ll find somethin’ nice! You hungry now? These migh’ take an hour or two, but if y'don’t mind waitin’, I can start preppin’ them!”
Delilah watched her husband eat, well, he technically wasn’t her husband. There weren’t many folk in Yharnam that could officiate a marriage, but she still considered them wed to an extent. The small woman often wondered if anyone in this city was married, or if anyone actually had the authority to do so at all, but for now, she was content. They had each other and adding an official little piece of parchment didn’t seem important. It wouldn’t change anything. She loved him so dearly, and he her. This was happiness.
He ravaged the pies in front of her, much to her delight. Delilah always enjoyed seeing her food eaten so eagerly, it made her feel useful. In instances like this, however, it made her feel talented, like maybe her chattering wasn’t her only skill. Smiling as he paused to look at her, she waved him off casually.
“Oh don’t you worry ‘about me, love! I have one for m’self! You eat up, y’need it after all tha’ work! You’re a growin’ boy, hah! You need tha’ protein! Are they alrigh’? How do they taste? Can’t evah say I’ve eaten an actual person before so uh… this should be interestin’. Can’t be too bad, though, can i’? Probably just tastes like meat. Probably no’ much difference between i’ and animals, eh?”
Sitting down to her own meal, Delilah very timidly lifted some of the filling onto her fork, sniffing the morsel before poking it inquisitively with her tongue. It didn’t taste awful? It just… tasted like pie filling. Her morals were drowned out swiftly by her belly rumbles, suddenly digging into the meal hungrily. It was pretty tasty, all things considered!
Sitting back, belly full and shack warmed by the fire, Delilah just took a moment to relax, eyes closed and a content smile on her lips. Yep, this was one of the better evenings in life.
Growing? Growing in width maybe, Gustav thought to himself, flashing teeth at her in a grin. After having been alone for so long and surviving on large quantities of the most basic of meals, he would treat everything Delilah made like it was a masterpiece, because to him it truly was. He didn’t even see the need to verbally answer her question, as his actions said plenty– once given the okay, he wasted no time in devouring the last meat pie nearly as quickly as he had the first, despite his stomach’s protests. In fact, he enjoyed it so much he couldn’t ignore the urge to lick the plate, savouring the last greasy drippings of meat.
Leaning back for a moment, content with the fruits of his labour and resting a comforting hand over his belly, Gustav watched his wife investigate her meal and smiled once she got over her moral trappings to finally eat it. Perhaps most would feel some form of guilt over convincing her to try human flesh, but maybe due to his beastly nature, he felt no such thing. Times were tough, and they were doing what they must to survive, that was all. One less person in the world would hardly make a difference, he figured.
Pounding his chest a couple of times to dislodge a large hiccup, he sighed happily and rose from his seat, groaning a little bit from the effort on such a full stomach. Gustav sauntered over to behind Delilah’s chair, pressing in against her, and leaned down to give her a few thankful kisses along her neck, though the angle was painful considering the heaviness of his belly…thankfully he had a better idea after a moment. He pulled her chair out a ways from the table and dropped carefully to his knees in front of her, then rested his head in her lap, hands rubbing along her thighs. After a moment’s rest he looked up over his glasses and shot her the most mischievous little smile, hands working their way inward and up, sneakily gathering her skirt to expose more and more of her legs…
