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The capital is boring.
Why is the capital boring? It's the capital! It should have interesting people in it! But noo, everyone she's met so far has been an idiot. Mostly not even an entertaining idiot, just a boring idiot who thinks she should be impressed by their whatever, like, no, in order to impress her you can start by not being an idiot.
On the plus side, the party has free booze, so that's nice.
And once they're gone and their footsteps have receded into inaudibility Siva says, "Tanaikon."
"She was--surprisingly cool about it--but yes, that'll matter a lot less in a hundred years if you or Iri doesn't figure out how to fix it."
Hug. "Anlei might help too, for that matter. She's done some pretty sophisticated magic for someone who's only had a decade at most to figure it out."
"Good point. Maybe I should get started on trying to decipher the magic books sooner than later, the odds that I'll come up with something none of the rest of you do is really low but not literally zero."
"Mm... I'm not sure if I'm okay but if I'm not, that's not really the reason."
"I - did things to her that she'd have every right to hate me for, and she barely seems to care. She just cheerfully threatened to set me on fire if I fuck with her again, told me I have a great castle, and introduced me to her girlfriend. And I... I like her, and if she hadn't turned out to be incredibly, insanely forgiving, I wouldn't get to be friendly with her, I'd have killed that chance when she hurt me and I lost my temper."
Hug. Lots of hug. "Yeah. Well, she is insanely forgiving.
I told her I was glad I met you the way I did instead of the way she did and it's so true. I'm not insanely forgiving, and I--I love you so much, I trust you so much, and the idea of not getting to have that..."
So much hug.
"Believe me, I am not remotely inclined to take this for granted, any of it."
Snuglean. "I guess you being younger isn't the only possible point of failure. Whatever, you're not suddenly going to have retroactively set me on fire or anything anymore than I'm suddenly going to have been born in the Ansati Empire."
"...Do you maybe want to go cuddle somewhere comfier than 'standing up in the middle of the ballroom'?" it occurs to her to ask after a minute.
He grins and hugs her, and up they go on the wind to her enormous cozy bed.
"You know, I was talking to Fia about what I hoped to get out of learning pain magic, and this came up. It continues to be eminently delightful," she giggles, snuggling a little closer.
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