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In the morning, Sylvi's up first, having suffered no worse in her second chunk of sleep than eighteen-year-old Lu tripping and skinning her knee because the pet zebra she usually rode was getting reshod and she had to walk to the theater to meet her friends. Charp sets about making breakfast as soon as she stirs. It puts a kettle on to boil for Avedan's tea and fixes eggs and toast with jam for Sylvi. She reads more of her notes while the food cooks, and Charp delivers to her at her desk. It's all just how she likes it.
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the_charm
"Oh, please don't tell me you've been getting all - childhood and the part before he met Kib, or something, that would just be positively unfair -"
do_over
"I also remember Aydanci being married to a boy called Kib, and a woman called Aly," adds Kidan.
the_charm
"Right, well - those were me, and I remember some of it and I've caught up on their notes about the rest and I have to admit I wasn't expecting to be greeted as a stranger, not with the age gap like this, not when - I'm sorry."
the_charm
"Can I even talk you into coming to Lapis and reading your old notes - oh, and your math, all your old math - or do you not want to go anywhere with me because you think I'm out of my mind, or - what?"
the_charm
"I'll - go get a hotel room, I guess," she says with a weak laugh. "But - will you tell me where I can find you later? And how long a bit is?"
do_over
"I -" He takes a deep breath, and then rattles off an address. " I don't know how long it'll be? I'm - in the middle of things here and didn't even think the dreams were real, just bizarrely specific, and I was extremely busy and real people matter more than whatever strange things my head spits out at night, but - apparently the dreams are real, too. And I need to think."
the_charm
Lu writes down the address.
"I'll - drop by in a few days, I guess. I'm sorry for - I'm sorry."
She turns around before it is more than a medium amount of obvious that she's trying not to cry. Her zebra kneels for her and she climbs on and trots away.
"I'll - drop by in a few days, I guess. I'm sorry for - I'm sorry."
She turns around before it is more than a medium amount of obvious that she's trying not to cry. Her zebra kneels for her and she climbs on and trots away.
do_over
Well that's absolutely heartbreaking. He's - frustrated, though, he can't just - jump aboard the zebra and go running off with a strange woman he just met and go be married with her because his dreams said so.
"I'm sorry, too," he sighs.
"I'm sorry, too," he sighs.
if_at_first
Sylvi dreams about Kib etching instructions onto Charp and Lu chasing the dead end of self-programming golems and Aly affixing wings to the first storks -
Sylvi wakes up.
Sylvi wakes up.
do_over
And Avedan dreams abut Aydanci organizing quarantines and Kidan looking up at the sky while cuddled with his wife and wondering if there's an end to the reincarnations or if it just goes on forever, and then Aydanci again when he's alone and in a dark, cold house and all he can feel is a cold determination to fuck up the pox for touching his wife.
He's still asleep, when Sylvi wakes up.
He's still asleep, when Sylvi wakes up.
if_at_first
Sylvi is yawning and sitting up. She peers at Avedan; still asleep. She wanders into the bathroom.
do_over
And, eventually, Avedan comes wandering down the stairs. He has tea, and then he looks at Sylvi with a complicated expression.
if_at_first
"...Morning?" Blink. "...I got Kib discovering Aydanci was not straight, and some work on Charp and recursive golems and storks, what'd you get?"
do_over
"Lu finding Kidan, and then some more of Aydanci being depressing, and Kidan snuggling with Lu." Wince. "... The first meeting was - I'm sorry."
if_at_first
"Well - Kidan apologized, already, but - apology accepted from you too. She was coming on too strong, for that matter, I'm sorry."
if_at_first
"I didn't say her behavior was incomprehensible, I said I was sorry. Any future instances will have guidelines on how not to spook you."