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Mallyn's first concern is whether he and Rithka have been permanently lost. Rithka, on the other hand, knows exactly what's going on - "this just happens sometimes! It's okay, we can go home whenever!" - and eventually has him reassured enough that he sits down at the bar and stutters his way through asking her for potato soup. Rithka gets a walnut to nibble on companionably from her squirrely perch around his neck, but doesn't feel like shifting to eat anything substantial. She was in the snack cabinet earlier spoiling her dinner.
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"Kamai thing," says Mallyn. "In Barashi if you get caught doing something really bad, they make it so you can't, anymore."
"In Esmaar there's just prisons," says Rithka. "But, there wasn't kamai ever. I dunno if they'll change it."
"In Esmaar there's just prisons," says Rithka. "But, there wasn't kamai ever. I dunno if they'll change it."
"Yeah," sighs Rithka.
Mallyn nods once.
Mallyn nods once.
"It's just you?" Mallyn asks.
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"Family-wise? Yeah. You heard the list. I don't have any siblings or cousins or anything."
Mallyn nods again.
"There were stupid politics so Lyrrae and Renn had to be adopted by different people from Mallyn," says Rithka. "It was in newspapers and stuff."
"There were stupid politics so Lyrrae and Renn had to be adopted by different people from Mallyn," says Rithka. "It was in newspapers and stuff."
"Esmaar and Aristan had this deal that if anybody Esmaar thought was being abused got to Esmaar, Esmaar could keep them safe there," says Rithka. "Esmaar is so much stricter. Mallyn's birth parents were being illegal in Aristan too but not by as much. And Aristan was like 'well, okay, we don't think any of our kids are going to run away to Esmaar' but then Mallyn did. He couldn't take Lyrrae and Renn because he had to go a really long way and they're littler," says Rithka. "And then Esmaar was like 'okay so Mallyn stays here' and Aristan was like 'this is really embarrassing, we will look after Lyrrae and Renn all by ourselves'. But Aunt Ryll is an Aristanian senator so she got Uncle Batai and Aunt Karyn to take them so they're still related."
Mallyn gives Felicity a confused look.
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He shrugs. "You might not. I don't know if I would, if I had siblings. But I know I don't care much about seeing Mom again."
"I wouldn't've - I mean - I could have left earlier," says Mallyn. "I found out about Esmaar earlier. And I wanted to stay to keep them safe - only I couldn't, so I left in case someone else could."
"They're littler than me," Mallyn reiterates. "Lyrrae especially. She might not remember any of it later, even."
"Yeah."
"You other species are weird," opines Rithka. "I can remember all the way back to being a month old and getting named."
"You other species are weird," opines Rithka. "I can remember all the way back to being a month old and getting named."
"Yeah," says Rithka.
"Dragons do a bunch of things different," says Mallyn.
She fidgets but doesn't say anything.
"Dragons do a bunch of things different," says Mallyn.
She fidgets but doesn't say anything.
"Like getting named when we are a month old," says Rithka. "That's a thing dragons do."
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"Okay," says Felicity.
It seems like there is something being left unsaid here, but he can't imagine what. He has some more cupcake.
It seems like there is something being left unsaid here, but he can't imagine what. He has some more cupcake.
"That's about when we figure out how to talk," adds Rithka.