I want to ride my chocobo all day!

Prompto came home with a dog-tired (heh! GET IT?) baby in his arms and immediately handed the worn-out birthday girl to her mother with a kiss, and then promptoly banished them both from the kitchen so that he could get started on whipping up an amazing....well, okay, okay, he was no Ignis in the kitchen, let's be real, so let's go with a relatively mediocre but decidedly heartfelt Valentine's Day dinner with a wine that came (begrudgingly from Argentina) recommended by Ignis when Prompto called him in a slight panic about not knowing the first thing about that kind of thing.

The mint chocolate cake for dessert later, however, he did pick up from the bakery. Sure, he'd made plenty of cakes before, especially for Liz's birthday, but he wanted to focus on dinner, and he wanted the dessert to be undeniably perfect. And as he was finishing up, he was just going to set the table nice and romantically for two, and then pop his head out of the kitchen to check on how things are going.

"So?" he asked. "Ready for your epic romantic Valentine's dinner now?"

[[ oh, hey, it's for that wifey-type person! who'd have thought?? ]]

It was an absolutely beautiful day in Duscae. Well, actually, if he was entirely honest, it was a little too warm for Prompto's tastes, but it could be as scorching hot as the surface of the very sun and Prompto would be fine with it, because he'd managed to convince Liz (it hadn't been that hard) to be dragged back to Eos with him that weekend so that they could have a date at pretty much one of the greatest places in the entire multiverse: the chocobo farm!

Because Liz had never even seen a chocobo yet, much less ridden on one, and that was obviously a crime that needed to be rectified immediately, and, thankfully, it was a pretty easy fix. It was kind of exciting for him beyond the chocobos, too, because this was his first time out of the city without the others, which meant he was going to be particularly nervous about making sure they manage to get back well before nightfall, but they'd gotten an early start, so they should have plenty of time.

Even this early in the morning, there was some light activity going on around the small ranch, the farm hands getting ready to feed the chocobos and corral all the fat little scurrying chocochicks underfoot. A truck selling weapons and supplies had just parked off to the side, opening its doors to show off its wares to more adventurous types planning to head out into the wilds. A few people sat at some tables underneath umbrellas to have breakfast, with old Wiz Forlane overseeing it all. Overall, an excellent day for some chocobos!

Well, every day was an excellent day for chocobos, if you asked Prompto, but he was pretty sure he couldn't have asked for a better one, and he grinned over at Liz as they arrived, fighting off the urge to just instantly drag her over to the pen with the chocobos, because just look at them, Liz! They were right there, in all their chocobo glory! But they could build up to it. He could be patient! Sure!

"Well," he said, "here we are!"

And now the real challenge was going to just be ignoring the constant messages from the other guys reminding him not to lose his phone like he did the last time they were there!

Like, dang, guys, you have some weird creepy asshole pilpher your phone once, and you never hear the end of it!

[[ NBF for distance, obviously, and also, obviously, for that girl he kinda likes or something, idk ]]