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[featherduster]

i preemptively know i'll need this

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Re: cw gore, torture

[featherduster]

[ He doesn't argue the point, since he doesn't actually disagree ]

Maybe, but... he fell in love with someone very unlike himself. That couldn't be an accident.

[ He shrugs, a little lopsided since Frost still has his hand ]

It doesn't matter now. It's just- something I think about, sometimes.

Re: cw gore, torture

[endsjustified]

You’re not as different from “Minuet” as you think, either. And “Charon” is as greedy as I am.

Rather than being disgusted, he’d just want both.

Re: cw gore, torture

[featherduster]

[ That startles a laugh out of him ]

That's comforting, actually.

Re: cw gore, torture

[endsjustified]

I guess it might be.

He’s a lot less of a coward than me, about wanting things like that.

Re: cw gore, torture

[featherduster]

[ A small smile ]

I think you've been pretty brave, in-between a couple fits of cowardice.

Re: cw gore, torture

[endsjustified]

Trying to unlearn bad habits.

[a tiny quirk of his mouth]

Now you don’t have to worry about Charon’s opinion, at least.

Re: cw gore, torture

[featherduster]

Mm. Only yours.

Re: cw gore, torture

[endsjustified]

I want them both, too.

As much as I can have, I want it.

Re: cw gore, torture

[featherduster]

I'd say you've already succeeded at that.

Re: cw gore, torture

[endsjustified]

[Frost’s breath hitches, visibly]

And you? What do you want?

Re: cw gore, torture

[featherduster]

[ He looks surprised ]

It's not obvious?

Re: cw gore, torture

[endsjustified]

I don’t…want to make any more assumptions about anything. Even if it seems obvious.

Re: cw gore, torture

[featherduster]

[ He sets the drink aside so he can loop his arm with Frost's ]

Well, I want all three.

Thankfully, as you've said, all three are right here. As long as they'll have me, anyway.

Re: cw gore, torture

[endsjustified]

[he gets very fluffy (literal)

fidgets for a moment, then picks something out of his pocket, puts it around Aloe’s wrist one-handed, and draws it snug]

Re: cw gore, torture

[featherduster]

[ ,


Lifts his wrist to inspect it like ???? ]

Re: cw gore, torture

[endsjustified]

[it’s a near-perfect replica of the thin collar from the one performance, looped twice around his wrist like a black leather bracelet.

the silver banding on the scale marks it as one of Frost’s actual ones and not the scenario dragon’s though]

Re: cw gore, torture

[featherduster]

[

He turns very red suddenly ]

This is...

Re: cw gore, torture

[endsjustified]

[slightly stifled]

I was going to wait. But.

Re: cw gore, torture

[featherduster]

[ He disentangles his arm from Frost's, but only so he can gently run his flesh-and-blood fingers over the edges of the scale ]

You must have done this once we disembarked...?

Re: cw gore, torture

[endsjustified]

[he’s slowly going pinker and pinker]

It was—an impulse. I passed a—well, anyway, I commissioned a pair.

Re: cw gore, torture

[featherduster]

[ Looking up at him intently ]

What's on yours?

Re: cw gore, torture

[endsjustified]

[he takes it out to show him; there’s a little silver tag shaped like a feather on it, but]

…a placeholder. I thought I’d ask for one of yours later, or…whatever you felt was appropriate.

Re: cw gore, torture

[featherduster]

[ A small smile

And a feathery tendril appears from his forearm, hooking itself toward Frost invitingly ]

Re: cw gore, torture

[endsjustified]

[‘-‘

politely closes his fingers around it]

Doesn’t it hurt to pull these?

Re: cw gore, torture

[featherduster]

[ His lips twitch slightly ]

I've caught bullets with them. It's fine.