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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.
secondchance
secondchance
Squeeze. "I thought I was doing a reasonably good job of not checking you out or sighing conspicuously. I was not aware just how many tells there were to watch out for."
"Are those things you are frequently tempted to do? And my mother is extraordinarily observant of people - she has to be, it's how she can capture them so convincingly."
"You could always," Fëanáro says, "abandon politics and do something meaningful with your life, and then it would not matter what people said about you."
Maitimo stands. "I'll keep that in mind."
"We love you," Nerdanel says.
"Love you too."
Maitimo stands. "I'll keep that in mind."
"We love you," Nerdanel says.
"Love you too."
My decision to start a relationship with someone who wouldn't have had any practice at concealing one. You also don't need to look protective at me. My father doesn't really hurt my feelings. We just grate at each other like sandpaper if there's not a common cause in between us as a protective layer.
secondchance
I think you may be overestimating your share of responsibility in the existence of the relationship.
When I had interacted with you enough to conclude that I desperately desired you I could have offered you one of my brothers as a go-between and translator and offered you a place to live not in the palace and then avoided you entirely and been very demanding of Findekáno for a few years. It would have worked fine.
secondchance
I would have been all 'wait, what, why am I moving, what happened, is there some reason we suddenly cannot communicate in person'.
You wouldn't have had to move because I'd reached that conclusion before you moved in in the first place.
Anyway, becoming involved with you was definitely under my control enough I can express my very restricted regrets.
That's why I said 'very restricted'. I have no intention of ever letting you go.
Unless you want that. It's not in fact true that men attracted to men have a deficiency in caring about that.
Unless you want that. It's not in fact true that men attracted to men have a deficiency in caring about that.
Hmm? I thought you knew about that one, Findekáno said that the first time he took you up the walls you made a joke about it.