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Abadar uses a helm of opposite alignment on Hagan and a bad time is had by all
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"...I mean, in some parts of the world men and women sometimes describe each other as friends they happen to be sleeping with."

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"Okay. Among Osirians it is a completely different thing, maybe entirely for cultural reasons. Even men who are unhealthily jealous aren't going to care about their wife having a girlfriend. I think even the pharaoh's women are allowed to sleep with each other and they're barely allowed to do anything."

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"All right. Well. I guess if it works for you that's - fine.

"...Chelaxians land where the locals land on this one. I guess that was probably obvious."

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"Yeah. Might've been a big deal to me if we were still - but not now."

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Nod.

"Well. I guess - those are probably most of the points of confusion that are coming to mind on this particular front. - the ones that seem worth clarifying right now, anyway."

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Nodnod. "Uh, the corresponding thing - I would care if you did something that was reasonably likely to get a kid killed for no reason. I know people can change and stuff. But it'd bother me."

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"Okay. I haven't done that."

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Nod.

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She pokes the ground again.

 

 

"You said you loved me. Back in town."

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" - yeah." He looks slightly uncomfortable.

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"What's that, like, mean? To you."

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"I think you're really neat. You're important to me. I think about you a lot.  I want to take care of you and make you happy. I want you to have my children. I want to explore places with you. You bring out the best in me and I think I would be a good husband to you. I want to touch you. - once we're married."

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"Huh.

 

"I - think you're really neat, and you're important to me, and I guess I think about you a lot, and I trust you - not enough to marry you but on some axes probably more than anyone else I've ever met - and I feel safe with you, and I want you to be happy, and I want you to stick around and keep helping me look after Verita, and I think you've made me a - less sucky person, anyway, and I'm grateful to you for protecting us, and - I guess I want to touch you although maybe not the way that I'm supposed to.

"And I guess I will have to get back to you on the other stuff."

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"All right."

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"Okay.

"...should I be, like, nudging you to actually go to sleep, or something - "

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"Eh. I'm sure once the novelty wears off I'll get better at sleeping but I think it'll be hard at first."

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"Travelling with you and Verita."

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"That's not really new. It's the being alone with us?"

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"...yeah." He looks sheepish.

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"I assume it doesn't help much if I promise not to do anything weird to you in your sleep."

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"I'm not - holding you accountable for my choices, promise. I'm just not very tired."

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"All right. Up to you."

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Then he will lie down and smile and not exactly sleep.

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She hugs herself and watches the darkness and feels somewhat less terrible about herself than she did a few hours ago.

At some point she can tell Hagan that it's his turn and try going to sleep. 

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