Now that the hoverboard was finally fixed, [Name] grinned brightly in pride of finally finishing it. No, thanks to Ekko's....distracting actions.

[Name] let out an incompetent scoff at the thought of what he pulled off earlier, muttering incoherent words of displeasure. At least, Ekko wouldn't gloat or anything over the fact that he caused [Name] to take so long on this hoverboard, now that he was out from the room.

Holding the board up, [Name] tilted the board to the sides for a while and narrowed their eyes, nodding silently from seeing how the hoverboard was ready to go.

...

Hoverboard underneath within [Name's] grasp, they walked out from the weaponry room and let out a small exhale, softening their eyes at the children happily playing about, looking around the area.

Walking down the steps, [Name] let out a breath of relief and sent a small wave to Scar, to which he responded to wave in return, all the while; he was soothing a baby in his arms to sleep. But, it seemed that the baby was more interested in gnawing off Scar's claws and was biting at one of them.

The [Hair Colour]-haired [boy | girl | person] was about to make their way out from the Sanctuary for their yearned-out ride, but they happened to be stopped by some tugs on the hems of their clothing.

An etched look of confusion was formed upon their face, looking down to see some kids looking at them eagerly; some with brightening smiles. One of them from the group of children, managed to utter out something,

"Can you play with us, [Name]? We would ask Ekko, but he's busy."

[Name] smiled softly, nodding and breathed out through their own nose. They raised a brow at the comment on Ekko, letting out a small hum of consideration. "The Boy Saviour, huh? Just, come straight to me next time first, instead of him. I am way more better than him!"

A mischievous grin formed onto [Name's] face from the sight of the kids giggling at their comment. It was most likely from the last remark they made, making them swell within pride.

"Can we try your hoverboard, [Nickname]?"

"Yeah! Can we use it?"

With all the sudden ongoing requests to use [Name's] hoverboard for a sweet ride, caused the [Hair Colour]-haired [boy | girl | person] to clutch their hoverboard closely, like one would do with their own purse.

'Oh, hell no. No, way am I gonna get this shit damaged again.' [Name] thought, their lips twitching downwards in displeasure. They got this hoverboard of theirs just fixed up today, it wasn't likely that they are going to put it in the hands of these kids.

Sure, [Name] is quite close to them, and enjoys messing around with them; every now and then. But, on occasions, like this: it's where [Name] will just put their foot down and, then say;

"No, kiddos. No can-do, just got my beauty fixed up and I can't afford to have 'em busted-up again. Took me so fu-- Uh...." [Name] stopped themself from going on any further, trailing off on purpose and cleared their throat in realising that they were about to cuss out in front of the kids.

'Ekko would probably get pissed off at me if he knew that they learnt cuss words from me.'

[Name] pondered on in thought, perking up and grinned, looking back down at the kids looking up at them.

'He'll be pissed off at me. Yes! Fuck, yes! This'll be payback to him, for distracting me back in the weaponry room. Cocky bastard.'

"What were you about to say, [Nickname]?"

"Is something wrong?" The children interjected in a curious and concerned manner for [Name], furrowing their brows with those depicted feelings.

The mischievous [boy | girl | person] was brought away from their thoughts, a smirk appearing upon their face. "Nothing's wrong! I was gonna say that, this lovely hoverboard of mine took so fucking long for it to be fixed-up properly. It got messed to absolute shit because of the bastard Silco."

They had to suck in their breath a bit, to hold in their oncoming laughter, upon seeing the looks on the kids faces from the cuss words.

"What do those words mean? Like, the word; shit?"

"Can we know what they mean, [Nickname]?"

[Name] leaned back, propping themself to sit on a staircase step and laid the hoverboard to the side. "Alright, gather round." Clearing their throat, they had to calm down the laughter that would soon uprise out of their breath, if they didn't calm themself by now.

...

By now, the kids were rushing away from [Name] in a flurry and they went back to playing about. Except, they were now spouting swear words, every now and then. [Name] could only stand by the staircase, cross their arms and smile proudly at what they've caused.

"Now, to await the ice-cold bastard to come on out here, in...5."

As they started counting, they glanced around to see people hoverboarding around the giant tree and the kids running around at the bottom of the tree, cussing out loud.

"4."

Some people had confused looks upon their faces, growing quite concerned for the kids mildly swearing even more with each word passing by.

"3."

Eurin, one of the caretakers, walked up to them and she asked what was going on with their explicit language. Ah, she was more gentle on the topic of asking them, the others watching seemed to be quite aggravated with this whole cussing situation.

Once one of the kids explained that a certain someone taught them those very words, Eurin could only frown deeply and shake her head. [Name] could only be thankful that the kid didn't exactly expose them, but it seemed that Eurin already knew who it was and glanced at [Name] with a deadpanned look.

[Name] could only contain a nervous grin, hesitantly waving at Eurin and then whistled nonchalantly to look less suspicious. Didn't work.

Someone caught on with the glance Eurin gave to [Name], going off to tell Ekko about this.

"Well, shit. Oh, I was supposed to be counting. I was at, 3, so...2 now!" They scratched their right cheek within thought and gulped silently, awaiting for Ekko to pop up, so that they could immediately bail and then piss him off once again.

"Uhm...1?" [Name] perked up, looking around to see if Ekko was around. No sign of him. This caused them to merely shrug, letting out a breath of relief.

"Oh, guess he isn't going to come in. I can just relax now, I gu--"

Unfortunately, the relief was short lived by a sudden burst of loud noise that had surprised [Name].

The noise was caused by the one and only;

Ekko.

And, he looked pissed off.

"Oh, shit."

"[Name]. You want to explain yourself?" Ekko's eyes were narrowed at the [boy | girl | person] and let out a noise of irritation.

"Explain myself for what?" [Name] brought their arms up in exaggeration for how confused they were, though they knew full well why Ekko was most likely here.

"You know what I mean. So, explain why you brought it upon yourself to personally piss me off now?" Ekko raised a brow, awaiting an answer from [Name].

Silence.

Ekko was getting quite irritated with the response of silence, leaning closely to [Name] in a threatening manner.

"I asked a question, at least answer it."