shaker, meet stranger

[mrglam]

Sadde is home; it's a Friday evening, his shift is over, and there's no school. He's reading a book, lying on his bed in his small-but-tidy apartment.

He is also quite naked, because it's his place and why not?

Comments

[first_and_final]

Ooh. Neat.

[msglam]

She lands. "Told you I could fly."

[first_and_final]

"You did. Were you expecting me to disbelieve you? The evidence seems conclusive. Although I could try it if you insist."

[msglam]

She giggles. "That's just an expression."

[first_and_final]

"I know."

[msglam]

Another kiss.

[first_and_final]

Kisses! Can they maaaaaaaaybe be floating kisses? Floating kisses are cool.

[msglam]

Yes! Yes they can!

Eee floating kisses!

[first_and_final]

Giggly floating kisses!

The joke about disbeliieving her amused him enough that he spends an idle moment figuring out what disbelieving in her blatantly obvious flying powers would even look like.

[msglam]

It looks like they're not flying anymore, that's what it looks like.

And she is Alarmed.

[first_and_final]

"What'd you do that for?" says a very puzzled Ashras after a hard landing on the floor.

[msglam]

She pushes him away, taking a couple of steps back. "What did you do?"

[first_and_final]

"I didn't... do..."

He pauses, rapidly recontextualizing some things.

"...anything," he finishes slowly. "Oh."

[msglam]

[first_and_final]

"...If my guess is right, I can see why you didn't tell me. But if you genuinely do want to save the world together, I'm glad I know."

[msglam]

"What's your guess."

[first_and_final]

"That other people's expectations affect the things you do with your power."

[msglam]

Sigh. Sit on bed.

[first_and_final]

"That's a dangerous secret to have," he says. "...But the possibilities... how much do you know about how it works? Actually, forget all that for a second, how precisely can you conjure things? Because I was already thinking of testing whether you can conjure me magic weapons, now imagine conjuring me magic weapons and using successes in that area to convince audiences of your destructive potential. In the face of that vision, an Endbringer looks about as threatening as a giant bat."

[msglam]

She looks up at him, but doesn't say anything. She is... clearly much less comfortable than she was a minute ago.

[first_and_final]

"...What? Look, I - I'm sorry I figured it out, I guess, sort of, but I don't know how to unlearn the knowledge and I'm pretty sure I do know how to use it to save the world."

[msglam]

Another sigh. "Well. You know. I'm not saying I don't trust you, but I kinda am? We've only just met? This is our first date? Wow I'm sounding like such a butthole right now..."

[first_and_final]

"If it helps, I'm pretty sure over the course of that date I told you all of my major secrets. But then, mine aren't secret for nearly so good a reason."

[msglam]

"...yeah. It's just, wow, I haven't even gone out in costume yet and someone has ultimate blackmail material on me already. And I'm really attracted to you and you sound nice and well-meaning and all that, but I don't know how much of that is my ladyboner talking."

[first_and_final]

"...I'm torn between sympathy and wanting to get out there and start aggressively trying to save the world with you right now." He resorts to his first language to mutter something in the tone of an awed curse.