"Usually I'd say yes, but he's been eating less at meals."
"The Imperial need for control is so desperate because it is so unnatural. Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear. Remember that." -Karis Nemik
“…true.” She grimaced. “Is there anything else he likes we could get?”
"u and rina are systematically watering down the grammar of yws" - Atticus "From the fish mother to the fish death god." - lehmanf "A fish stole my identity. I blame shady" - Omni [they/he]
Bay considered it. "I'm not sure material goods are going to solve this one, Ky. Not this time."
"The Imperial need for control is so desperate because it is so unnatural. Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear. Remember that." -Karis Nemik
Ky nodded solemnly, glancing away. It was worth a shot. She was out of other ideas at this point.
"u and rina are systematically watering down the grammar of yws" - Atticus "From the fish mother to the fish death god." - lehmanf "A fish stole my identity. I blame shady" - Omni [they/he]
"The Imperial need for control is so desperate because it is so unnatural. Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear. Remember that." -Karis Nemik
“Sven is still making it,” Ky said. “I think he’s going to ship it directly home so I can give it to him there with my siblings.”
"u and rina are systematically watering down the grammar of yws" - Atticus "From the fish mother to the fish death god." - lehmanf "A fish stole my identity. I blame shady" - Omni [they/he]
"The Imperial need for control is so desperate because it is so unnatural. Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear. Remember that." -Karis Nemik
“What’s a heart box?” Jerica looked between them curiously.
"u and rina are systematically watering down the grammar of yws" - Atticus "From the fish mother to the fish death god." - lehmanf "A fish stole my identity. I blame shady" - Omni [they/he]
"It's a tradition up here," Bay replied. "A way to welcome a newborn child into the family."
"The Imperial need for control is so desperate because it is so unnatural. Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear. Remember that." -Karis Nemik
“Oh…” Jerica was quiet for a moment, mulling this over. “Wait, then who’s ‘him’ that you’re giving it to? I thought you had a sister?”
Ky blushed and pulled her coats around herself more tightly, looking away. “I’m getting one for my father.”
Jerica furrowed her brow. “Why?”
Ky blushed even more and managed, “because he doesn’t have one.”
“…which father?” Jerica asked, tone more accusatory than she meant. It didn’t make sense why the mopey one wouldn’t have one; and it also didn’t make sense why Ky would be referring to their real father as ‘my’ not ‘our’ or buying him shit when she knew fully well Zander wasn’t gonna let either of them meet him.
Ky blushed more, flustered by the questioning and feeling attacked. “Tomhas.”
“Why doesn’t he have one?”
“Cause he doesn’t,” Ky answered sourly. “Yet.”
“Why not?” Jerica pressed. “Shouldn’t he have an old one by now? If you get one when you’re born you’re not supposed to get one from your kid right?” She looked to Bay for confirmation, not sure why Ky was getting so huffy about this.
"u and rina are systematically watering down the grammar of yws" - Atticus "From the fish mother to the fish death god." - lehmanf "A fish stole my identity. I blame shady" - Omni [they/he]
Bay gave a nod, looking ahead. "...He wasn't given one."
"The Imperial need for control is so desperate because it is so unnatural. Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear. Remember that." -Karis Nemik
"u and rina are systematically watering down the grammar of yws" - Atticus "From the fish mother to the fish death god." - lehmanf "A fish stole my identity. I blame shady" - Omni [they/he]
"No, it was." He kept his gaze ahead. "The Ashes weren't inclined to give him one. He wasn't born under good circumstances."
"The Imperial need for control is so desperate because it is so unnatural. Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear. Remember that." -Karis Nemik
“Ohhh, ‘cause the whole…?” Jerica gestured vaguely with a snap, glancing over at Ky. She blushed and hid her face. Jerica nodded once. Rape. Right. She’d heard about that. “Got it. That makes more sense.”
"u and rina are systematically watering down the grammar of yws" - Atticus "From the fish mother to the fish death god." - lehmanf "A fish stole my identity. I blame shady" - Omni [they/he]
"Right." Bay dipped his head. "It's been a rather sensitive subject."
"The Imperial need for control is so desperate because it is so unnatural. Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear. Remember that." -Karis Nemik
