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Iobel writes to both parents with the news.
Kalars writes back; she has his utmost sympathy, but if she doesn't want a visit he doesn't need to be there for his own sake.
Raney doesn't write back; she just turns up the next day, dwarf caiman familiar tucked under her arm.
She wants to meet her son-in-law.
come_midnight
royal_obligation
"Though if you ask her if she wants to cuddle she'll deny it and say she doesn't like cuddling. She likes warmth. It just so happens that if someone she likes is warm she'll just - curl up on them." He looks at Berathyme. "All the time."
kindestgarden
"Well, Nimmen likes warmth too, but she doesn't cuddle, though she'll let me carry her. When she wants to warm up she goes out in the sun or curls up near the fire."
royal_obligation
"Berathyme does both of those, too, but - this way she doesn't have to move and can still understand what's going on."
come_midnight
"And Cricket has the fortune of being a mammal, although he does like to nap in patches of sun and he is quite snuggly, which he freely admits."
royal_obligation
Edarial nods. "Berathyme's also not usually this attached to me, it's only lately that she's felt the need to."
He doesn't expand on the why.
He doesn't expand on the why.
royal_obligation
He's pretty sure it's for similar reasons that Berathyme is constantly around his shoulders. Cricket's kidnapping and Iobel's marriage, and all. He nods.
royal_pain
"Your familiars make up the independent cuddlers squad who have decided to spend absurd amounts of time with their binders," says Zevros.
come_midnight
"So it would seem."
Cricket asks a question; she catches him up on the developments of the conversation; he snorts and snuggles up to her.
Cricket asks a question; she catches him up on the developments of the conversation; he snorts and snuggles up to her.
come_midnight
"They can't really talk to each other. I'm not sure what the meetings of the independent cuddlers squad could accomplish, considering."
royal_pain
"Eh, maybe it's growing up with Berathyme being all - 'I am a royal familiar, I don't give a damn about anyone or anything, leave me' and then having her spout out curse words."
come_midnight
"Well, he appreciates it, even if I don't especially. He likes to know what what he's saying means and makes me explain it every time he has a new phrase."