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royal_obligation

"Very well," says Edarial gravely. "You've whittled me down. You would like uncharted affection, I will give it to you."

He stands, and offers a hand to Iobel. "Come. We must twirl."

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Iobel giggles and gets up and takes his hand.

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He smiles, and pulls her into a very twirly dance.

"There," he laughs, when there has been a good amount of silly twirling. "Enough uncharted affection for you? Or would you like more?"

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"I hardly think that would sate any reasonable appetite," Iobel says primly.

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"Any reasonable appetite. Aha, I see. I must go further, then." He makes a 'hmmm' sound, and then carefully, carefully steps closer. Gently, he touches her chin and tilts it up to a very... kissing angle.

"Well," he begins, and then he realizes that he has absolutely no idea if she actually wants him to kiss her or not. He's not even completely sure he wants to kiss her. Shit. What does he do, he is all set up to kiss her and somewhere he'd planned to but now it's possibly about to happen and that's kind of terrifying. Does she want him to kiss her? How does he tell, he's never done this before!

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Iobel's eyes flutter shut.

royal_obligation

Well she's not - pulling away, she doesn't look like she's disgusted or like she doesn't want him to kiss her. Or - wait, was she closing her eyes to get it over with? Is she resigned to this? He doesn't want her to be resigned to their marriage, that's the entire point of -

He realizes abruptly that a beautiful, brilliant woman is right there, standing in front of him, head tilted up to the proper angle to kiss. Again, he wonders how it's fair that a brilliant woman gets to be gorgeous, too. And his mind goes blank and the nervous apprehension and self-doubt goes away and he wonders why the hell he isn't kissing her yet.

So then he leans down and fixes that.

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It is more than a little awkward - but not unpleasant. Not a bit that.

royal_obligation

Yeah, it's - wonderful. If awkward.

"I have no idea what I'm doing," he snorts, pulling away briefly and wondering what he's supposed to do with his hands.

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"Of course not. We aren't birds, so we have to guess."

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He snickers a bit. "This is what happens, when we try uncharted affection. I have a brief moment of panic over if you want to kiss me or not and then five seconds later I have no idea what to do with my hands."

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"I didn't think I was that - illegible."

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"No, I was - just being paranoid."

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Iobel puts her head on his shoulder.

"Thought we were mostly past the paranoia."

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"I - well, it's - that's an entirely normal form of paranoia, I think, it's not like I've kissed anyone before..."

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"I suppose it's different, yeah," she murmurs, and then she lifts one hand up to his cheek to tilt his face down and kiss him again.

royal_obligation

Well, that's much more straightforward!

It's still a bit awkward, but that's okay. It's part of the charm.

come_midnight

And the awkwardness decreases with practice.

royal_obligation

Hurray! Decreased awkwardness! More kissing! Both of those things are good!

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Iobel agrees completely!

royal_obligation

Good. But they do need to breathe, if they don't, they could pass out and that would mean they couldn't kiss for a while.

"We'll start to rival Ice and Cypress in no time. Flaunting with our ability to kiss."

He's grinning. It's a very goofy grin, actually.

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"And we didn't even need feathers. We're winning on the highest difficulty setting!"

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"Ha! That'll show them. That'll show them all."

Well, now that they have had time to breathe - back to kissing.

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