Pearl has drawn Willow on an adventure... an adventure involving a dragon and a party hat... El is at a loss for words. She's written "happy birthday!" on it. Pearl is going to find out Willow's favourite cake by offering her 15 different cake tasters while singing happy birthday!
willow’s birthday thing! | accepting! | @shesnotmyship
Willow’s not expecting anything -- never really is, honestly. Well, I mean. I guess you could say she’s expecting something. Just never really anything... y’know. Good.
After all, this is Willow sky we’re talking about. Things don’t seem to go so good in her life.
But Pearl and El, so far, seem to be two good things. Two good things that are becoming, for better or worse, pretty important to her. ( Important enough to think about blinking out into the stars and not coming back, that is. )
Because she tumbles into Pearl and El, smiles all around, and a picture, and food, and she’s in awe, staring around her so slack-jawed she almost looks emotional for a second.
Just a second, though, before she breaks into a beam. “Holy s--” Looking at El. “S-- skies! Did you draw this? This is so stellar! I love this! You gotta teach me how to draw this... like... y’know, uh-- stellar-ly. How -- how did you know it was my birthday?” She doesn’t even know, of course. But it seems she’s moving too fast to really hear the answer. “What is the little food! Can I have some? Can I have all of it? Okay maybe I’ll share, like, a little, itsy bitsy bit--...”