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Annie is sitting with Ice and Phix in the Belfry. (Phix has determined that neither she nor Max knows near enough about runecasting to hope to approach Aya's little problem in the next, like, year at least, but she's taking notes to deliver to Iobel, who has not yet abandoned so much hope yet cannot be at this meeting for queen reasons.)
"If you could just say more about the subjectivity of it, it might give me an idea of something new to ask the alethiometer," says Ice. "Obviously having it look directly at Aya is an option, if it just can't get enough information off the necklace, but ideally we'd exhaust the possibilities first."
"Or Prime would just give her what she wants," mutters Phix.
"Let's not be weird and pressure-y about that," says Ice. "Annie?"
"...Sorry," says Annie. "I just had a mental image of Aya holding a soul bird and the soul bird looking at Prime and wanting to be petted and him refusing to do it. I think I would sooner let the alethiometer look at me than give her another - thing to pine about. I should work just as well, shouldn't I?"
"You might," says Ice, "unless reciprocated necklace arrangements look different or are different forms of breakable than one-sided ones, in which case you might not."
"Poor hypothetical soul-bird," murmurs Phix, scribbling.
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castmyown
"Then we should tell her that he's not going to lie to her about it."
keep_busy
"I suppose she'd probably believe us. Still. Good to have caught that one in advance, unless he's, like, tried to say it while they're away..."
darkest_evening
"Mmrmgh? ... What?"
Apparently Prime's sleepiness manifests as grumpiness.
darkest_evening
"... Okay?"
He nudges Aya, offers her the mirror, and then... flop. There he goes, out already.
He nudges Aya, offers her the mirror, and then... flop. There he goes, out already.
shesepankh
"Hello. This is a - not a public service announcement, I guess, but we have been gossiping terribly about you behind your back and thought you might like to know that it is Adarin-general-consensus that if Prime ever tells you he loves you he will not be lying to make you feel better or anything."
castmyown
"... Also probably let her know that he likes her more than a little."
shesepankh
"They also strongly suspect that he does, in fact, have feelings for you, quite a lot even, but is - it's not really funny, so I won't say 'hilariously incompetent' - decidedly incompetent at doing anything about it, or at least expects to be, so he's not even trying."
shesepankh
"I don't think it hurt, anyway, except for interrupting Prime's sleep."
dark_light
"Okay, so that will presumably cut down on certain particularly unpleasant scenarios under certain conditions. I do still want a plan for what if another - week or two goes by and they're still doing - that."