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Akibel Mowar is on his way home from the blacksmith's when he spots it. People are shrieking and fleeing from it, which seems reasonable, as it's a fuckoff huge snake with a mirror for a face. A big mirror.
Kib can't so much flee. He can shriek - he can lurch in the direction of the nearest house and try the door - it's locked. He can amble briskly...
He can break into a run when the snake gains on him and fall flat on his face.
And he can get eaten up.
And it's too bright too bright too bright and he flings his arm over his eyes.
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secondchance
So a lot of people who look vaguely like mixes of Fëanáro and Nerdanel gather around the table and ask each other technical questions, quite competitively. He meets the Ambarussa, both of whom look to be about the age of humans of 10. Macalaurë gets bored of the conversation and starts singing and everyone switches to osanwë. The baby is passed around and doted on.
It is the Mingling by the time everyone abandons the dinner table. Maitimo puts his baby sister to bed. Shall we head home?
secondchance
(Singing the grace song all the way. So useful. Kib is pretty sure it works when he does it at least well enough that he can, like, walk.)
Music magic is really very handy that way! And they reach the palace and Maitimo wishes him good night.
adebarsteine
(Aly reads. Aly lies on her back in bed swirling shines around on the ceiling. Aly gets sucked into a stupid argument with her creche friends about Lapis politics. Aly brushes her hair, picks a nice outfit, she wants to impress Ayd-)
secondchance
- Kib wakes up. It's weird how the memories slot into place: he remembers them when he wakes up like they're fresh but they don't fade like normal dreams, they fade like old memories, like they're things that happened to him (her) twenty or thirty years ago.
Well. Another day.
Well. Another day.
In the afternoon Findekáno sends instructions for getting from not-often-occupied parts of the gardens into a window that he assures Kib will be left open.
He's there by then.
The best way to make Maitimo happy about this rather than dramatically jealous and grouchy would be to say to him 'I got you a present, it's the boy you like' but he is unwilling to do that without Kib's approval and uncertain how to acquire Kib's approval without, well, saying. He doesn't worry too long on this because Kib is cute and the only relationship rule he and Maitimo have are 'if you don't like what I'm doing you can manipulate me into not doing it'.
The best way to make Maitimo happy about this rather than dramatically jealous and grouchy would be to say to him 'I got you a present, it's the boy you like' but he is unwilling to do that without Kib's approval and uncertain how to acquire Kib's approval without, well, saying. He doesn't worry too long on this because Kib is cute and the only relationship rule he and Maitimo have are 'if you don't like what I'm doing you can manipulate me into not doing it'.
He gets a kiss on the other side. We're safe here unless we're very very loud, I have a known preference servants not come in my rooms.
