— himself from any further embarrassment.

"Woah, for real? That's--"

Silver stopped, the sarcasm—and the fact that it wasn't Rouge's voice he'd heard—finally registering.

"Oh. You're Surge...
Hey, you could've fooled me! Sometimes people wear those fake ears, y'know?"

Too naive for his own good sometimes, but he'd at least saved —

" . . . "

He's staring. Observantly—puzzled by something.

Eventually, he speaks up.

"Is this Rouge going as Surge? Or Surge going as Rouge...?"

????? No??? What are you talking about???

THESE, SAGE.

Wh— no.

The little, blue, baby things.

Cream takes care of one.

No, no. Chao. As in the little guys.

//: mfw sage from the hit game sonic frontiers appears again (its peak)

And join the princess, he did! Taking a seat right across from Blaze.

The bread smelled as good as it looked. Heat was the only thing keeping Silver from giving it a taste test.

"It's cool to see you take up something like this, Blaze! So what other things have you cooked? Or baked?"

— the loaf of bread.
"That looks great!"

Silver had been elated to hear that Blaze would be visiting. Her home away from home became his destination the first chance he got.

"Hey, Blaze!" As he joined her in the kitchen, his tail wagged with excitement. What had she been making?

An impressed "Oooh.." left Silver as his friend presented —