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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
secondchance
Oh hell two decades of Aly being dead have not been good for Aydanci have they.
"Um. Hello. My name's Akibel Mowar. I have an extremely implausible story and no idea how to start and if you don't believe me it's going to sound like a cruel joke, forgive me if I don't have a very elegant way around any of that please -"
That's when a magpie flies out of the house and lands on Kib's shoulder and starts eating his hair. "Stop that," Kib tells the magpie.
The magpie stops.
"Um. Hello. My name's Akibel Mowar. I have an extremely implausible story and no idea how to start and if you don't believe me it's going to sound like a cruel joke, forgive me if I don't have a very elegant way around any of that please -"
That's when a magpie flies out of the house and lands on Kib's shoulder and starts eating his hair. "Stop that," Kib tells the magpie.
The magpie stops.
ounce_of_prevention
Aydanci's eyes flick from Kib to the magpie, then back.
"... Go on?" he prompts, hint of a frown around his eyes.
"... Go on?" he prompts, hint of a frown around his eyes.
secondchance
"Um. So a while ago I started having peculiar dreams which stick like memories and all take place before the stork dropped me and - there is no way to gracefully lead up to 'I am Aly reincarnated, but I don't remember everything yet', is there. But I didn't want to - wait until I remembered more, I thought you'd want to know."
secondchance
"I have Aly's exact personality and am dreaming her life in randomly-ordered chunks and I occasionally refer to her in the first person and I thought you'd want to know."
ounce_of_prevention
This person is probably completely insane, or very ill, or something, but Aydanci is pathologically incapable of closing the door in his face if it is at all possible any part of Aly is alive.
"... I see," he says, sounding like he doesn't. "And - what parts of her life have you dreamed?"
"... I see," he says, sounding like he doesn't. "And - what parts of her life have you dreamed?"
secondchance
"Random stuff. I didn't get anything much about you until very recently and then I got engagement and death and wedding in that order all in one night that was fun. Mostly childhood and I did get the eclipse before but only for a few minutes and I didn't put it together, I got enough to be halfway competent at speaking Harthanic which I have never learned this time around, I could probably replicate her scooter design, I know the three questions?"
ounce_of_prevention
Aydanci goes very still and quiet. He eyes the magpie again.
"And those are?" he murmurs, voice suddenly rather hoarse.
"And those are?" he murmurs, voice suddenly rather hoarse.
secondchance
"Not actually something I dreamed first, I had them independently - what do I want, what do I have, how can I best use the latter to get the former."
ounce_of_prevention
He opens his mouth, then closes it. He doesn't dare look hopeful, just - vulnerable.
"Could you please tell the magpie on your shoulder to lift a wing?"
secondchance
"You think it -?" Blink. "Left wing up for a sec," he tells the magpie.
The magpie complies, then refolds its wing.
"That didn't even occur to me. I knew I - I knew she invented storks, I didn't think I'd be able to just yell one down and get it to show me who'd been making the new ones, I was waiting to dream it -"
ounce_of_prevention
"I noticed earlier when you said stop. I gave up trying to get him to stop nibbling on my hair years ago."
ounce_of_prevention
What are the chances that this is actually happening and isn't an elaborate prank or a very vivid dream or if he didn't expire in his sleep -
"... Would you like to come inside?" he asks, because he doesn't know what else to say, but it should probably be said inside.
"... Would you like to come inside?" he asks, because he doesn't know what else to say, but it should probably be said inside.
This is heartbreaking and sort of encouraging and very very weird at the same time.
Yes, Maitimo says.
Yes, Maitimo says.
ounce_of_prevention
Aydanci has couches. They are the same pair that he and Aly bought - before. He picks one and sits.
"You mentioned you had the eclipse?"
"You mentioned you had the eclipse?"
secondchance
Kib sits on the other one. Doesn't want to make it weird. "A little of it. Talking about getting apprentices to teach. Ones who could already read."
ounce_of_prevention
"I, you, what's. Your life been like, are you okay? Happy?" That last part seems to be of the utmost importance.
ounce_of_prevention
"Okay," he murmurs, relaxing a little. Because that was the most important thing.
secondchance
"...the story of my life actually gets even more implausible than that but I thought I'd start with the important part."