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Well, it wasn't as if Merry could ever really say no to a little fun. A few minutes after the text had been received the ghoul was headed down to the forest, sped along by a long glide on colorful wings. At the tree line she'd have to move on foot, and here she'd keep an eye out for him as she made her way down the path.

"Siiiiku~" She was sure he was hiding in her somewhere, waiting to ambush her.

A flash of white in the dimness. Merry turned, flashing a sharp smile at the boil as he reached out to her. The ghoul danced back playfully, wings flaring and hips swaying. "Oh no? And what's a proper hello, handsome?"

She was dressed in white as well. A soft sundress that flared loose around the thighs. Open at the back for her wings, it tied at the nape of her neck.

"You've been rather scarce lately. That pretty ghoulie of your's keeping you busy?" As far as the chimera knew, everything was just dandy in Siku's life.

This time she let him come to her, hand cool upon her hip, even though the soft material of her dress. A giggle followed as he drew her in, hands coming up to rest on his chest. "Maaaaybe~" Coy, she was not, but she would play it up.

She didn't miss that subtle flash of something in pale eyes. A hint, or suggestion, that perhaps there was trouble in paradise. She'd already suspected. Siku had kept conteact with the chimera ghoul, but they'd not met up since things had gotten serious between the demon and the undead. Merry, ever respectful, had kept her distance, not wishing to step on anyone's toes.

So this invitation from the boil had been a happy surprise.

Fangs flashed as she grinned at him. "Trouble, as always. You know me."

"As if they would," she countered easily, laughing as she leaned into his side. "They like me just the way I am." Not once had either twin ever so much as hinted at any sort of jealousy where additional lovers were concerned. Merry had the freedom to do as she pleased, with whomever she wanted. Her heart belonged to the grue boils, and they knew it.

She gave a soft hum as he started directing her, tail flicking around their ankles. "Where are we headed, darlin?"

"I think so." It was confidence bordering on vanity, but Merry had always worn that well. Always toed the line without crossing it.

They walked in companionable quiet for a while, the ghoul glancing periodically up at the well dressed demon beside her until he was ready to reveal to her just here they were headed. Instead of verbal answer though, she was given a gentle but firm shove towards a rather large pile of fall leaves. This resulted in a startled chirrup before the chimera went head over heels, laughing as the leaves exploded around her on impact.

"Siku!"Tricksy boil. She sat up, eyes narrowed but all smiles, and he'd feel the tight coil of a tail around his ankle a second before she was dragging him in with her.

Another high-pitched squeal as Siku almost fell right on top of him, but the boil caught himself with hands to either side of her head, knees framing her hips, and Merry was very nearly rolling in laughter by the time he was purring that awful joke down at her. She gave him the look the joke deserved before that unreadable expression had her blinking up at him. "Siku?"

Then he was leaning down, laying a chilly n** to her chin, and the ghoul smiled again. One hand coming up to smooth his hair back from his face so she could try to read the look on pale features.

It was the closest they'd been since the boil had gone exclusive with his ghoulfriend. A boundary Merry was always very careful to respect. She'd joked with him, laughed with him, but hadn't touched, hadn't leered, hadn't offered. She'd been a good ghoul. Now, the way he was holding himself above her, the look on his face, that soft n** against her chin. She didn't know what to think.

Back home things never seemed to be this serious. or at least, as a youngling, Merry had never been privvy to anything terribly serious. There were traditions, there were rules(however loose), but things there had been easy and carefree. It hadn't been until she'd left him to come here that Merry had been exposed to the more serious side of life. It had been the wait to enter the school, her time with the twins and realizing how deeply her feelings ran. Her first encounter with a hunter, and the scar that still decorated the side of her stomach.

It meant that even if she and Siku had never shared a moment like this, she wasn't a stranger to it.

He shifted to sit beside her, and she pushed herself to rest on her elbows, looking up at him. "Why do you think that?" Something was very obviously nagging at him. Originally she'd thought perhaps guilt. Guilt for meeting her when he might still have a ghoulfriend. If he still had a ghoulfriend. His answer to her question about the ghost had been very evasive earlier.