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That's clearly not a response he was expecting!

"...oh." He considers her. "I guess, maybe, you look a little younger..." He trails off, drooping, "I'm sorry. You look like my friend, Luna," he explains. 

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Avaline nods, slowly. Anxious. He's so sad. Can feel it from here, adding to her and Tenebris' emotions both. Hurts.

"My name is Avaline. A door stole you?"

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"Mm!" He nods, "I was coming out of the bathroom. It's supposed to lead to my bedroom, but it lead to Milliways instead."

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...Tenebris slips his long snakey body into the table shadow attached to hers, angling towards the boy's table again.

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Avaline follows him on instinct, before having second thoughts and pausing and stopping his movement.

"Milliways. That's what this is called? I was in my cupboard and the outside changed and it opened here."

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He diffuses out of shape, petulantly.

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"Yes that's this place. It's a restaurant! What were you doing in a cupboard?"

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"Sleeping. I can't turn off the lights in my room, so I sleep in the small cupboard in my desk. It's just big enough." Which is true, just not the whole truth. The cupboard is the only place she and Tenebris can properly snuggle. It's small enough and dark enough that he can stretch himself out and surround her. "Milliways is a magic restaurant?"

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"Mhm. The bar is a person, she gave me spiced apple cider and burrimund." He waves towards his plate, "It's really good! She also said time is paused while I'm in here, so the crownsguard won't be worried."

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Her eyes flick down to Tenebris then back up. Knows he wants to try it, the way he wants to try all new foods, but they can't just ask. And they don't have any money.

"She can freeze time? What are the crownsguard?"

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"No, I think the door does that? When it's closed, anyway. Outside the door it's the same time it was when I came in," he nods. "The crownsguard protect father and I, they have father's magic and they're very strong and they're everywhere, especially since we came back from Tenebrae."

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Tenebris perks up a little. That was almost his name!

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That's a lot of information. But she can feel her shadow's excitement, so she starts on that.

"Tenebrae like... dark? In Latin."

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"Latin? I don't know that. It does mean darkness, though," he nods, "In Solein."

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"I don't know Solein. Do you know the Solein word for 'night'?"

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He brightens, "That's me! Noctis. My name means night," he nods.

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"Nox is night. Noct too, when it's at the start of a word, I think. Like 'nocturnal'. They're Latin."

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"Mhm! Maybe Latin is like Lucian? Or like the old Lucian, that's on all the old statues and in the old old books in the library. You can call me Noct, if you want," he adds.

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Little nod.

"Where is Tenebrae? I'm from Yorkshire."

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"It's on the western continent. Luna lives there, her mother is-" he pauses, forehead furrowing, wrapping his arms around himself.

"Her mother was the Queen."

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"The Queen of... England?" Avaline is pretty sure the Queen doesn't have a daughter named Luna. "Or another western country?"

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He squints at her, "The Queen of Tenebrae. What's England?"

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"It's.... England? Part of the UK. Is Tenebrae in Europe?"

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"No... Oh. I guess... Bar said something about other worlds? I wasn't really paying attention to that part."

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"You're from another planet?"

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