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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
That's that, then. And he'd be happy to sit on his bed holding Kib quite tightly.
Findekáno joins them a little while later. My father knows, Maitimo says. Not about you.
Oh. And -
And he doesn't mind. In the same way he doesn't mind that I'm destined to be a murderer, in both cases he just assumes that I have reasons to do apparently evil and baffling things, but still.
Oh. And -
And he doesn't mind. In the same way he doesn't mind that I'm destined to be a murderer, in both cases he just assumes that I have reasons to do apparently evil and baffling things, but still.
secondchance
I'm not very good at pretending not to care about stuff, apparently. Might want to be circumspect about warming up to me in public.
Noted. Nerdanel's sharp, though. My parents are fairly oblivious.
I really hope that now that my father's agreed not to light Telvo on fire they'll reconcile, Maitimo says, he needs her.
More snuggles?
We'll keep an eye on you.
adebarsteine
She has finally told Aydanci what her secret project is - she feels a little silly having held it back this long, it's Aydanci - and he's predictably delighted, looking at her like she's the inventor of all that's good in the entire world, and they're talking about coordinating their work, smuggling storks with his medics, him providing her alibis as she provides him a second voice when he petitions everyone who needs to cooperate with a large-scale public health plan, and they're going to combine workshops and maybe they should just live together and it'd be convenient if -
"It sounds like you want us to get married," she remarks.
He blushes - he's so fucking cute - and stammers and: "I - that - is. ... Correct, actually. Um. Will you marry me?"
She can't resist a little speculative, "Hmmm -" And he's so nervous he's so adorably nervous, and she kisses him and says, "Yes."
And with that he beams, lifts her off her feet, spins her around, and oh the way he looks at her she never gets tired of the light in his eyes when he looks at her -
"Don't go, don't go -" He can't touch her, even if he places his hand on her head it'll bend her at the neck, touches her thigh it'll stretch the skin at her knee that last little intolerable bit, he hovers and almost smooths her hair, almost strokes her arm, but he can't hold her - "- I love you, you're too valuable, I love you, you're so strong and brilliant and please don't leave me I don't want to live without you please I'm sorry just stay with me I'll figure out a way to fix it, I just, I need more time, please don't go -" She's going faint, if she draws breath again she'll just expire of the pain outright, this is better, just - not - breathing. Oh her poor Aydanci careful even now not to cry on her. Oh she's so sorry - "I don't, I don't know what to say to make you keep fighting, I'm sorry, I'm selfish," oh honey, "you're irreplaceable if you won't live for yourself please live for me, live for the people you're brilliant enough to save, live for, for, I."
But she's not getting better.
"Honey," she breathes with a bit of air she didn't know she had, and she doesn't have to listen to him weeping any more -
They're on a beach, with a few friends, barefoot in the sand, laughing, and she loves him so much she's going to burst, and they kiss so long one of her co-prentices starts whooping -
- they have a tasteful, autumn wedding.
"It sounds like you want us to get married," she remarks.
He blushes - he's so fucking cute - and stammers and: "I - that - is. ... Correct, actually. Um. Will you marry me?"
She can't resist a little speculative, "Hmmm -" And he's so nervous he's so adorably nervous, and she kisses him and says, "Yes."
And with that he beams, lifts her off her feet, spins her around, and oh the way he looks at her she never gets tired of the light in his eyes when he looks at her -
"Don't go, don't go -" He can't touch her, even if he places his hand on her head it'll bend her at the neck, touches her thigh it'll stretch the skin at her knee that last little intolerable bit, he hovers and almost smooths her hair, almost strokes her arm, but he can't hold her - "- I love you, you're too valuable, I love you, you're so strong and brilliant and please don't leave me I don't want to live without you please I'm sorry just stay with me I'll figure out a way to fix it, I just, I need more time, please don't go -" She's going faint, if she draws breath again she'll just expire of the pain outright, this is better, just - not - breathing. Oh her poor Aydanci careful even now not to cry on her. Oh she's so sorry - "I don't, I don't know what to say to make you keep fighting, I'm sorry, I'm selfish," oh honey, "you're irreplaceable if you won't live for yourself please live for me, live for the people you're brilliant enough to save, live for, for, I."
But she's not getting better.
"Honey," she breathes with a bit of air she didn't know she had, and she doesn't have to listen to him weeping any more -
They're on a beach, with a few friends, barefoot in the sand, laughing, and she loves him so much she's going to burst, and they kiss so long one of her co-prentices starts whooping -
- they have a tasteful, autumn wedding.
Morning. You okay?
Oh, they both say,
So there's someone you can go find, Maitimo says, someone who'll have her notebooks.
So there's someone you can go find, Maitimo says, someone who'll have her notebooks.
Good guy?
Awwww, Findekáno says. ... straight?
secondchance
I don't know, probably, he married Aly - but he'd want to know I'm alive - I can't let him keep thinking I'm dead I got to the part where I died -
No, Maitimo says at once, you can't. There's a portal, you should definitely go tell him. Are you okay? Do you need someone to go with, are you going to be okay if he won't believe you or if he's straight -
secondchance
I'm, I'm kind of not super okay but I'm probably functional enough to travel to Lapis from Wrebb? - I think I can prove it?
Snuggles.
And privately, osanwë need not be directed at Kib, Maitimo says very dispersedly It would not be fair to mope at him but -
The existence of at least one human with good taste is not surprising.
I'm not surprised he - she - was fending off suitors left and right, I'm surprised that there's someone 'perfect' -
I, too, am very sad I cannot kiss him forever. If that's even the case. And very jealous of a random human. But.
I haven't said anything to Kib, have I?
If it were you -
I haven't said anything. I am not going to say anything. I am going to help him find his sort-of husband and I am going to be really upset if that's it.
Yup.
And privately, osanwë need not be directed at Kib, Maitimo says very dispersedly It would not be fair to mope at him but -
The existence of at least one human with good taste is not surprising.
I'm not surprised he - she - was fending off suitors left and right, I'm surprised that there's someone 'perfect' -
I, too, am very sad I cannot kiss him forever. If that's even the case. And very jealous of a random human. But.
I haven't said anything to Kib, have I?
If it were you -
I haven't said anything. I am not going to say anything. I am going to help him find his sort-of husband and I am going to be really upset if that's it.
Yup.