After a few more minutes of silence, Basil pointed ahead at the next curve in the path before it turned once more to continue up. “Let's rest when we get there.”

“Dun wanna.” Touya pouted.

Basil shook his head. “Then you'll just have to go on alone. I'll sit down and rest. With all of the food.” Touya eyed him carefully as they continued walking, their pace slowing down equally to meet each other's line of sight. “You'll have to carry me up.”

Touya sighed after a second. “You win. Fine. We'll rest.”

It took them several more minutes of walking to reach the edge. While Touya looked around at where they had decided to rest, Basil was pulling out two small squares of fabric from his pouch. He found a bench underneath some thick branches and pointed it out to Basil, who promptly handed him one of the squares to unfold. Like a magic trick of folds, the two small squares of fabric unfolded from the original size of a macaroon to be two large blankets made of soft wool enough to wrap around their body from their shoulders to just below their knees. Basil wrapped himself up like a burrito first and sat down on the bench. Touya eyed the bench carefully to see if there was any spot that wasn't covered in water. Not finding one, he settled for sitting down next to Basil so their bodies touched.

The two sat in silence, one watching rain fall from above them down in front of them, and the other watching if there were any little bugs walking around them.

“Does it hurt?” Basil asked quietly. “Having your powers forcefully repressed?”

“Of course. That's why I need the food to break through the barrier she put on me.”

Basil's eyes fell to his toes, uneasily scratching them against the ground. “Even if you casted Wall right now to shield us, it would require food?”

“Something that's a power outside nature, and outside my own body.” Touya replied.

“I don't think I'd like it. Being limited.”

“You're too emotional. It's all from your emotions and that's why yours is weaker and stronger than mine.”

“Stronger?” Basil looked up to him.

Touya chuckled, looking down from watching the water puddle across the leaves above them. “Fire, electric fires, or whatever else I can zap, you'd be able to stop it.”

“But, Touya.” Basil paused. “Isn't your power more than just electricity?”

Without speaking, Touya reached his left hand out of the woolen blanket and pointed to Basil's nose. The soft rain that was falling around them paused briefly. It was too quick for Basil to notice. So, with a bit more force, being sure to use just a small amount of energy, Touya focused his energy on Basil's nose. The water in the air right above his nose collected and created a tiny droplet that immediately fell onto the blond's nose. Basil blinked in surprise, a bit of the splash flying up to his eyelashes.

“Whoa. What?” Basil lifted his hand covered with the blanket to dry his nose right away. “Where'd that come from?”

“What?” Touya asked as cluelessly as he could.

“A big drop just landed on my nose all of a sudden.”

“Really?” Touya drew his hand back to his body to get it warm again.

“It was almost like you...” his words stopped. “Did... You?”

“Can't say.” Touya winked at him.