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(Therapist hat: on xD) “Oh, I, um, ah—” Ky stammered, startled by the question. She shouldn’t have said what she had. This felt like a trick question. Although the rational ...

Ky smiled, falling into step next to him. “The sitting room is quite cozy.”

“Yes sir!” Ky nodded and stood quickly. She glanced up at him, feeling an impulse to apologize again, but she swallowed it. She hadn’t done anything to apologize for. She ...

Ky took another deep breath, this one a bit shakier, but also felt her body relax a bit more as she let this one out. It was so nice that ...

“Oh… right.” Ky took a deep breath and nodded, then let it out, body visibly relaxing. He was right. If they were meeting on neutral grounds, then she supposed there ...

“Yes sir!” Ky said brightly, grinning. It was a reflex at this point — enthusiastically agreeing to anything anyone suggested. It was starting to wane a bit, now that it’d ...

(Honestly I don’t really have a preference! I think Tomhas/Ky would be next up in the rotation since we just came off Pratik/Utrid but I’m down to go back to ...

(I am running out of ideas on how to keep the story going and don’t want to force you to carry it, but if you have more ideas then by ...

Aleth briefly wondered why Perseus had taken his son at all, if the boy’s mother was still alive. Seemed rather harsh to put a small child through.

Aleth smirked a bit. It seemed Perseus had more of Loquitur’s energy than Ash’s.

Aleth perked up a bit, listening closely. It was a bunch of old wives tales. But it’d be interesting if the old Lord stuck with his fantastical delusions.

“You can.” Aleth held the book out to him.

“Makes sense.” Aleth glanced back to where Arcus had disappeared. “It’s probably better to be like that, than to be too-comfortable everywhere.”

(I can’t remember… did we have Aleth in a collar when he showed up?) “Oh.” Aleth looked at it, absently touching his own neck. “Seems like it would be both ...

Aleth felt like he was on the cusp of some tea being spilled, but he couldn’t quite figure out how to phrase a question without it sounding bad. He instead ...