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It didn't happen often, but Zeke needed a break from his research. He'd been at it for hours, the text on the pages was beginning to swirl, and despite his glasses, everything seemed annoyingly blurry. It left the Mist irritable and restless, and all at once he was pushing away from the desk(dropping his glasses onto a note pad) and heading towards the door.

The route he took was automatic more than it was planned. He ended up in front of Ever's door, and after a second or two one large hand was rising up to knock.

Usually he sent a text, announced himself in someway. Then again, usually he was there for a pretty specific reason. Today, however, he had something else in mind.

Not that things couldn't eventually head the way they usually went when they two spent any significant amount of time together.

The door opened to reveal a very sleep tousled Ever. Zeke blinked, pale eyes taking in the mussed hair, the boxers, that unfocused look before pale lips slid into a teasing smile. And for just a moment Zeke forgot why he was there, distracted, as he considered pushing the blonde back into his room and closing the door behind hem.

Instead, and exercising more restraint than he usually bothered with, he passed a quick glance up and down the hall before reaching up to curl fingers along the back of his neck, drawing him in for a quick, thorough kiss. Commanding, almost possessive.

"Not why I stopped by, though oh so tempting." He flashed a grin, patting Ever's pink cheek. "Come do the Sun run with me, I need to hit some s**t." A little of the irritation he'd been feeling previous to Ever's appearance crept back into his voice.

Zeke decided to take the lingering unfocused as a result of the kiss, and he grinned. "s**t," he finished with a low chuckle.

He'd linger in the doorway as Ever pulled on pants, aware that if he actually crossed that threshold they probably wouldn't make it to the training course. "Yeah, have you done it before?" He was curious what to expect.

Zeke grinned, watching Ever try to tame the fluff of his hair.

"Something about a corridor and shadowlings, I don't know." He'd heard, but it was hard to keep them straight when he'd on;y checked out the life course so far.

"Not so far as I know," he confirmed, gaze dipping as Ever slipped past him into the hall. Zeke Fell into step beside him, hands disappearing into his back pockets.

At the mention of sharpies the Mist made a face, half amused, half irritated. "I really hope there's no sharpies involved, I didn't fair so well last time."

There was no fight to the arm that looped around his shoulders and pulled him in. He went with it, hip bumping Ever's hip, and glancing down at the other man's hand as he patted his arm.

"You are such a condescending s**t sometimes." He just sounded amused, and before Ever had a mind to slip away again, he turned his head to graze teeth along the edge of a pale jawline.

"What would you write?" If the Life didn't move away he'd feel a hand on his back, high between his shoulder blades.

"Ah, what else." He laughed, letting his hand fall away as they made it out onto the training grounds, heading over the grass towards the Sun course.

"I suppose if I was going to go back in that damn course with another person, it'd be you." If Ever did scrawl bible verses along is skin in neat lettering he wouldn't mind it so much, because it was Ever doing it. If not? Well, then he'd walk out of there marker free.

As they neared, he turned his head, looking up at the blonde. "If get taken out in there, you gunna be my knight in shining armor? Be there when I wake up? All that noble s**t?" He grinned.