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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.
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come_midnight
royal_obligation
"Yes, but then he would bug me about it."
He actually has a non-silhouette version. He will never let Zevros be aware of this fact. Edarial doesn't use it much, anyway, out of politeness.
He actually has a non-silhouette version. He will never let Zevros be aware of this fact. Edarial doesn't use it much, anyway, out of politeness.
come_midnight
"Do you not have better things to do?" Iobel wonders in Zevros's direction.
royal_pain
"Only sometimes! Usually I'm busy doing things. And stuff. And occasionally people!"
royal_pain
"Besides, he needs brotherly teasing to keep him from being mopey. I have failed as a brother, I need to tease him more, and then he will stop."
royal_obligation
"... I don't even know where to begin with how wrong every part of that statement is."
come_midnight
"Do you have any evidence that teasing him helps de-mope him?" wonders Iobel.
royal_pain
"Nnnnnooope, brotherly intuition."
He is joking. Iobel might not be able to tell.
He is joking. Iobel might not be able to tell.
come_midnight
"Do you have any evidence that brotherly intuition yields good information?"
She seems like maybe she can tell.
She seems like maybe she can tell.
royal_pain
"Hmmmmmm. Hmmmmm. Nope! But I've got jack shit for other information, so, brotherly intuition it is!"
royal_pain
Zevros will just be incredibly smug, over here, about how he got both Iobel and Edarial to smile at the same time.
kindestgarden
Raney seems to have noticed that too. She's smiling herself, thoughtfully.
royal_obligation
Well, Edarial's looking less like a raincloud, at least. Victory for brotherly intuition!
come_midnight
Eventually Iobel shows her mother out of the palace, after lunch has been had. Nimmen goes too, singing in her own language from where she is tucked under her binder's arm. Iobel walks them as far as the gate and then comes back.
"So. That's Raney."
"So. That's Raney."
royal_pain
"Also she's good conversation! You can like people and still be terrible with 'em."
come_midnight
"Yeah, I mean that she channels her liking people, she doesn't just think kind thoughts in a corner."
royal_pain
"There we go. That's more accurate. You can think kind things about people in a corner all you want, people won't like you much for it. You will be the corner goblin and frighten people."