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[daggering]

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[ktiseos]

[he has a hand over his face

so he does try to say it but it's like. muffled.

oh my god does he try]

[daggering]

[ sjlkwj;alkt'sh help

he scooches a little closer help ]

Gonna have to run that by me again.

[ktiseos]

....when I thought I would lose you both, I--

[god. he's only even saying this because of all this talk about-- love.]

Realized I felt similarly toward the both of you. I suppose I simply never had cause to notice, before.

... I may have kissed him.

He may have done the same when he appeared to heal me.

[daggering]

[


that

is not what he was expecting? he blinks, pulling back a little, surprised -

and then laughs? just laughs, and slaps him on the arm. ] Hey, good for you, Hades, you dog! [ DON'T TEASE HIM ]

[ktiseos]

Wh-- what do you mean, dog?!

[HELLO?? STOP THIS]

[daggering]

[ just because he can't help it, teasing: ] Did he kiss me, too?

[ktiseos]

You were the same person!

[daggering]

[ YOU'RE MAKING IT WORSE HELP HE DISSOLVES INTO LAUGHTER

WHEEZE ] Sorry - sorry. Ahh - Hades, phrasing... [ and is still gigglesnorting ]

[ktiseos]

[ughhhHHHH

he shoves at him and gets up to make tea]

[daggering]

Nnnnooo, come back, I'm sorry.

[ he's still snickering, but vax makes a concerted effort to put his arms around his shoulders as he's trying to get away. he is shaken off easily... but this is

so funny. it's cute!!! ] Did you not know that? About your friend?

[ktiseos]

...no. We always simply... were. I paid no mind to it, with him or with Azem.

[these things happen, you see, when you are emotionally repressed.]

You reminded me of-- the way I felt toward them, and then... what followed, followed.

[because sometimes you go 'ah yes this person reminds me of my terrible gremlin friends who i care about' and then you make out with that person and have to reconsider some things about friendships]

[daggering]

[ glad to be your emotional support bird and also your therapist, maybe?

he will stop hanging off of his shoulders like a dead weight of a couple of grapes, and returns to his set, instead, propping his chin in his hand. amused!! genuinely amused. ]

Guess you'll have to do it for real when you get out of here, huh? 's good for you.

[ktiseos]

--I do not know.

[should he?? what is he doing, exactly. what does he want to do-- and for that matter, what are they doing here, right now?]

[daggering]

[ a little amused: ]

I can almost hear you thinking. Come back here.

[ he pats the chair emet was sitting in a few minutes ago. ]

[ktiseos]

[he brings his tea with him, as he takes a seat. he has to pluck a few petals from it.]

Very well, then.

[daggering]

[ once emet's settled - and thank goodness for that, frankly, because it lowers their height difference to something much more managable - vax is the one to get up, resting a foot on the back of the chair and then pushing up to balance on it, so he can...

...get his fingers into his hair. it's not the first time he's done this, and it likely won't be the last, but vax's hands are steady, and the gesture is more soothing than anything else. ]

So, you're in love with your friend. Sounds like you have been for a while, maybe just didn't know how to put words to it. Is that right?

[ktiseos]

[does he HAVE to jump right to that, help. the hands in his hair help, though, head tilted back slightly into them.]

I-- well. I do not know about-

[he's about to say he isn't sure if it's love, exactly, but he's interrupted as he coughs vibrant petals, pink and soft purple.]

[daggering]

[ emet, please

he waits for him to finish, and reaches over to nudge a petal away from his face, just raising an eyebrow. like ok, bud ] You were saying?

[ktiseos]

...fine. I suppose it may be something like that, yes.

[he hates these flowers so much.]

[daggering]

If you made out with him on your deathbed, you probably are.

[ this is teasing - he has to stand on his tiptoes to lean over him and say it to his face, reaching up and playfully nudging that same hand against his cheek before he goes back to combing through his hair. Just Saying!!!


anyway. ]

You think he'd say it back?

[ktiseos]

[he just exhales a huff, at that. stopppp.]

...I do not know. He kissed me in turn, or that vision of him did, but this does not mean there is any bearing on how his true self would react.

[daggering]

Tell me about him?

[ time to listen. he's good at that, after all - just combing his fingers through his hair and starting to braid it back from behind his face. ]

[ktiseos]

...we have all known each other for some time. Hythlodaeus and I share a keen aetheric sight, although truth be told, his is more powerful between the two of us. It was he who was offered the seat of Emet-Selch... but he declined, and raised my name in consideration instead.

Azem gathered those we had assisted, when they dragged me into their travels around Etheirys, to support my nomination. I hardly think anything I did to have been worthy of such support, but...

As you well know, I now hold the seat in Hythlodaeus' place, though I've never understood why he would decline. He could have done well, had he a mind to.

[daggering]

Sounds like a good guy.

[ there's genuine fondness in the warmth of vax's voice; he listens to this description, clever fingers winding through his hair. ]

... Imagine he declined it because he saw your potential. [ aw. soft. it reminds him for a moment of percy, actually, but he won't say that. ] You're happy in your seat, aren't you?

[ktiseos]

I am. I have ever been honored to be given this duty, and he insists he far prefers his work as Chief of the Bureau of the Architect.

...still. Had he not stood by for me, I think he would serve equally well as Emet-Selch. He has ever worked better with others.

[hyth is just better with people, than he is. better at reading them, at knowing what to say, at-- making friends.]