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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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"Anyway. Uh. Probably not super relevant to me, so it's possible I haven't, like, edited my marriage heuristics into their best possible form."

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"Wait, why wouldn't it be relevant to you?"

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"Probably gonna keep following Verita around until she doesn't need to be watched anymore? And - I guess I'll have to do something with myself after that, but it's not like I'm planning ahead that far."

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" - wanted to say something but then we made plans to follow Verita around together and now I'm worried it'll come across as, uh, wouldn't it be convenient -"

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" - hm?"

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"I want to marry you." 

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"Um. Well. Okay. That's - uh."

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"Just - wanted to be clear about it instead of saying half things sometimes. You don't have to say anything." He waves the one arm. 

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" - okay. I just - okay," she says, kind of feeling like this is the lamest thing she's ever said in her life.

 

"So you still - we're, uh, still going?"

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"Well, unless you don't want to."

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"No, I want to, I just - I'm sorry I don't have, like, a sensible response to this."

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"You say, 'oh Hagan, my love, I have enough hands for both of us'."

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"...I think I'm gonna hold out for me to come up with something better. But - uh. No particular interest in withdrawing the offer to tie things."

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"Cool."

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"I'm - ugh, if I leave it there you're gonna be all - "

She looks kind of miserable and is blushing and looking at the sky now.

"I think you're great. Okay? I don't - where I come from you are not supposed to say that you want to marry someone until you're about ready for that to happen, and I am not remotely even a little bit ready for that to happen, and I don't know how much I like you and now I have absolutely no idea how to navigate this, but I just - gods. Sorry. I thought you - I didn't know."

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"Yeah, I figured. That's why I - sorry. This is why Fazil and Mahdi wanted you to play complicated go-between games, so everyone can always know what to say. It's okay. I love you."

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"....okay. Genuinely okay. I just - sorry."

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"- why -"

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"For - well now I feel like everything I do is gonna be either potentially getting your hopes up or potentially dashing them for no reason - I'm maybe kind of - I genuinely didn't have, like, plans, things I was hoping for, I don't - have specific things I want stored up - "

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- nod. "Well. Exploring is fun."

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" - yeah.

 

"I think - there's not anyone I'd rather be stuck here with. As long as we're stuck here."

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"I will try to feel very flattered."

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"Yeah. Well. 

"I'll - see you tomorrow? And we can head out?"

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"Sounds good."

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"Okay. I'll see you tomorrow, then."

She heads back to where she's been staying. She confirms to Verita that they'll be leaving tomorrow. She finishes packing. She hides under her blankets and berates herself for being a feelings-challenged idiot who doesn't know what she wants and as a consequence will never be able to have what she wants.

She's up at dawn and outside waiting for him half an hour later.

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