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[they're going to get yelled at so much if they get handsy in the new kitchen, but kissing? kissing is just fine.

Minuet can feel the faint crook of his smile again for a moment before he really melts into it, making it soft and slow and deep]

[ NO horny in the new kitchen. Non-horny kissing should absolutely be legal though.

He pulls away after a very indulgent moment, sitting back in his chair. ]

That was only one of the things you wanted to discuss.

Hmm.

[that's the noise of him taking a second to find his train of thought again, as he also settles back]

This isn't exactly--relationship-related. Or it's more general. But the headaches don't need to be that bad.

. . . ?

[ You have his Attention ]

No? 'Cause I'm not gonna keep making you feel like that, unless there's a really good reason.

[hums a little]

A reason it is so bad is because my Rune intersects with the demon's conduit directly. To avoid getting technical: it causes both physical and magical pressure, whereas the conduit mainly causes psychic pressure.

Your power will always cause me some pain, I think. But if I have warning, I can remove the Rune -- or wear the other one I have, which is meant to be set into the hand instead -- and that will decrease the effect significantly.

[ Frowns . . . ]

Is removing it difficult?

No, it's just tricky. I'm not a specialist, so it takes an hour or two for me to place or remove one.

Sounds . . . annoying.

So when you say "have warning" . . .

[ Are you asking him to. Schedule feathers. Is that it. ]

I assure you, if you want to spontaneously repeat what happened in the library without warning instead, I don't actually have any complaints.

[like. he sure wasn't feeling it until they were out of the mindlink.]

But you're concerned about it, and giving a little notice is the available solution, so.

[ what the fuck Charon ]

. . . I'll think about it.

Just seems like a lot of hassle for little reason.

You'll need to when you want to work on your own abilities, anyway...

You don't seem the time to use it casually, though.

Gonna be honest, I wouldn't have imagined using it at all, ever.

I would bet good money you never imagined turning up in a pasture full of green grass, open water, and deadly little animals, either.

[ Matter-of-factly: ]

Oh, I actually thought I was dead for the first day or so.

Minuet.

Did you come here right from dealing with your brother?

What?? No! It's been months . . .

[don't think about the fact that people are revived and get memory problems here all the time, don't think about that, do not. relaxes, but only a hair]

So you thought the time had just run out.

Well, who knows? Like I said, it's a mystery how that's gonna work out.

It's just-- I imagined Eden would look a lot like this place. Grass. Trees . . .

It is beautiful.

Seeing Styx must not have helped that illusion.

He's convinced it couldn't be that because he'd be in hellfire and I wouldn't.

[ ROLLS HIS FUCKIN EYES ]

Hm.

[quietly revises whatever he was going to say to something more neutral]

He's working through some things. Maybe some of that conviction will be worn away by the end of our time here...I hope so.

It's gonna be a process, but Lily's good for it. It wouldn't work with just one person whose opinion he can write off.

Mmh.

We also had to have a conversation about...well, conversations. I'm nowhere near as good as Perci or Lethe at having them with him, but we figured a few things out.

[then everything blew up lol]

A conversation about conversations.

[ Buddy? ]

Among other things...when he is talking seriously, or simply talking to hear himself talk.

I do not always know how to hear the difference, yet. He was unaware. We have established that I will ask, if I am not sure.

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