Sigh.

"My beliefs don't actually respond to incentives like that but I keep getting mixed signals on how good the mindreading is, so."

"The redmage thing is - she can pick postures that I don't have triggers around yet, and I don't even consciously know that myself."

"Should I be asking her for lessons?"

"Findekáno could bounce you things if you want. It's fine, like I said, I'm trying not to get too used to it."

"Okay." He flops on Findekáno, keeping Aydanci in his peripheral vision. "How're you doing?"

"Me? Uh, both of the people I care about most in the world think I'm Thauron but the food's great."

"You're not necessarily Thauron in particular, I think he doesn't find me as personally interesting as he found Sunset."

Shiver.

"That seems borne out - he gets captured in practically all Ardas, except Midnight's variant, and it looks like Thauron usually takes a special interest. One of my alts went and looked what to expect from all the yous."

"Mes from before the year of the Sun five hundred or so will probably figure out how to have non-horrible experiences after a couple hundred years, sooner with a magic teenager to hold our hand. Later than that you should really just -"

"Later than that we're still trying the magic teenager. We might figure out resurrection."

"Okay."

"Isn't there a finite magic teenager supply?"

"We only find Ardas when the door opens on them, at least for now. And we could dunk more children who'd grow up into magic teenagers, it's just a bit ethically dubious."

"Little bit.

You should complain when I'm mean to you, I'm trying not to do that, eventually some fifteen year old will roll over and wake up from a horrible nightmare and should not additionally have any terrible interpersonal habits."

Sigh. "Okay. But being hostile to the enemy isn't mean, really, even if it hurts."

"Yes, you should consider my permission to call me on meanness retracted should you break character, if it matters then."

"Love you, Kib."

Snuggle. "Love you too."

"Can we sing?"

"Yeah, I'm only getting weepy over that once per voice. One of Sunset's alts cleared it on his account before you showed up."

Sing. Cuddle. 

Miscellaneous funny anecdotes about the new humans on the Arda and the demon and escaped slaves that recently settled in with them.

Kib snuggles and comments on anecdotes and expresses very limited amounts of curiosity about how slavery back in his homeworld is coming along with the stork-based soft coercion.