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Two Crows Watch from the Gallows Tree (part 8)



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Ky considered it for a moment, then sighed softly. "Probably not. At least not while I'm here. I think he likes me better than he likes Zander, so, since he has to pick..."

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"Well, he has known you longer," he pointed out.
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"By like a week," Ky scoffed.

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"Fair enough. Even so, you were the one who approached him and you bonded. He didn't do that with Zander." He envied her, honestly. Part of him even wondered what might have happened if he'd stumbled upon the Marrow Man back when he was a child. Maybe Michael wouldn't have ever become Lord.
"I’m thinking about the aurora borealis. You can’t tell if it really does exist or if it just looks like existing. All things are so very uncertain, and that’s exactly what makes me feel reassured." --Too-Ticky

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“That’s true,” Ky agreed with a nod. “And I needed him more than Zander does. I think he liked feeling useful.”

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"From the fish mother to the fish death god." - lehmanf
"A fish stole my identity. I blame shady" - Omni
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"I'm sure he hasn't felt like that in a very long time. He was lucky to run into you." And vice versa.
"I’m thinking about the aurora borealis. You can’t tell if it really does exist or if it just looks like existing. All things are so very uncertain, and that’s exactly what makes me feel reassured." --Too-Ticky

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Ky shrugged. She didn’t really improve anyone’s life by being in it — no one was lucky to meet her. But he didn’t seem to mind her. Which was nice.

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"From the fish mother to the fish death god." - lehmanf
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"I imagine he'd still be eating unsuspecting farmers if you hadn't come along," he went on. "Who knows how long it would be until he lost his humanity entirely?"
"I’m thinking about the aurora borealis. You can’t tell if it really does exist or if it just looks like existing. All things are so very uncertain, and that’s exactly what makes me feel reassured." --Too-Ticky

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Ky cringed at that. “That’s an awful lot of pressure,” she murmured before she had a chance to really think about what she was saying.

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Gaius huffed out a half-chuckle. "Good thing you had no idea there was so much on you, then. It's over and done, now." Though he supposed now she would have to maintain this relationship somehow--keep connected to Rönn or risk him snapping. He didn't seem the sort to snap for that kind of reason, but then again he must already be half mad from six hundred years as a beast.
"I’m thinking about the aurora borealis. You can’t tell if it really does exist or if it just looks like existing. All things are so very uncertain, and that’s exactly what makes me feel reassured." --Too-Ticky

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Ky offered a little smile and nodded. He was still being excessively generous with her role in all this — had he forgotten that she was making a suicide attempt when Rönn intervened? If anything, he was the one to restore a small spark of humanity in her. “And now we’re friends.”

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"And a formidable friend he is. You've gained quite a few assets these past few months." The girl didn't seem to realize how very, very lucky she was. The fortune that had fallen at her feet. Coming to the north, meeting Tomhas and Rönn...it was all like something out of a fairytale.
"I’m thinking about the aurora borealis. You can’t tell if it really does exist or if it just looks like existing. All things are so very uncertain, and that’s exactly what makes me feel reassured." --Too-Ticky

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(Ky: I am very fortunate
Gaius: stop being a kiss up, act like you deserve this
Also Gaius: bruh Ky doesn’t even know she’s fortunate)

Ky nodded, then hesitated. She didn’t like thinking of any of them as assets. That made it sound like something she managed. Used for her own benefit. She didn’t want to use anyone.

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(The King of Contradiction)

(He just wants her to do it in a not wheedly way, I think
Or I just forget everything after I post. One of those two things)

Gaius walked on. "Do you suppose he'd follow you out of the realm if he asked?"
"I’m thinking about the aurora borealis. You can’t tell if it really does exist or if it just looks like existing. All things are so very uncertain, and that’s exactly what makes me feel reassured." --Too-Ticky

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(Hahaha valid)

“I… mean, maybe,” she said thoughtfully. “But I wouldn’t ask that of him — he barely knows me. It’s not like I’m a key part of his life… besides, I live here, now.”

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"From the fish mother to the fish death god." - lehmanf
"A fish stole my identity. I blame shady" - Omni
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