shiny new world

[mrsparkle]

Sadde's running.

Not for any particular reason, just because it's faster. He's been meaning to go to one of the capitals for a bit and now, he supposes, is as good a time as any.

And eventually he's not running anymore, because he's close enough to civilisation that someone might spot him. Not that he wouldn't be able to notice them by scent before they saw him, but still. And as he makes his way to the Norway capital at this more leisurely pace, he notices the tiny, shiny key. He walks towards it and picks it up and immediately notices just how magic it is. He can tell by the way the key feels like things, and different things depending on where it is.

He verifies that what the key feels like is consistent in absolute location by waving it around a bit and seeing that the same place always feels the same. "Huh," he murmurs to himself.

He straightens up and thinks. The first obvious thing to try is seeing whether it opens any doors - a universal skeleton key sounds like the kind of thing a magical key could be - but the second obvious thing can be tested right there and then. He pushes the key into thin air with some purpose, as if he wanted to unlock an invisible door, and then turns it, et voilà, the faintest of door-shaped outlines appears before him.

He locks the door, and it disappears. Unlocks it again, and there it is. So he pulls it open and sees-

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[mssparkle]

"Twenty-six, yes I know I wasn't alive then," she sighs.

[from_scratch]

"...I'm assuming the age difference qua itself doesn't trip you up at all because in a thousand years it'll be a rounding error."

[mssparkle]

"Yeah, pretty much. Plus, the longer it took me to find a mate, the more likely it'd be that I'd be the one in your position."

[from_scratch]

"Fair enough." Sigh. "Okay, so, besides as much sex as you can feasibly wring out of me and gallivanting through the multiverse fixing things - what are you after? Long term?"

[mssparkle]

Blink. "What do you mean?"

[from_scratch]

"Debatably single genderfluid vampire seeks... gallivanting and sex no strings attached? Unholy demonic matrimony? Lounging on the plane of gold watching astroworks go up confessing secrets? Action, adventure, rescuing each other from miscellaneous otherworldly fates? What do you want?"

[mssparkle]

"I would rather neither of us need rescuing, but I want... If I were to just take it for granted that you'd come with me, I want to terraform your Mars and bring the standards of living where I'm from to those of 2159 daeva-having Earth and open a portal to Limbo so Limboites could have an actually nice afterlife and go world-hopping looking for more things to fix. I want to be useful and help other people and learn a lot of new stuff, figure out physics, or meta-physics if it turns out they change from one universe to another, and the physics of each of the universes I visit. Which I guess aren't all very romantic or couple-y activities but I guess you being there doing those things with me would be enough, as far as relationship goals go."

[from_scratch]

"Okay, you know what, that's enough to be getting on with, I am unequipped to make long-term promises at this time but we can be a thing."

[mssparkle]

She doesn't pounce. She very visibly and conspicuously doesn't pounce. "That's good," she says.

[from_scratch]

"So, how do you feel about playing Monopoly for two weeks while we vigilantly guard the open gate in my swimming pool room, that sounds like a plan to me." Wag wag.

[mssparkle]

She eyes the tail. "If that's what you want to do, we can do that."

[from_scratch]

"But I don't have a Monopoly set and this is clearly an insurmountable problem." Wag wag wag.

[mssparkle]

"Help me out, here, I don't trust my brain to reach correct conclusions about body language that includes a tail, all I can think of is pouncing on you and doing blasphemous things to your body."

[from_scratch]

"I'm pretty sure you cannot technically blaspheme by doing things to a demon." Wag wag wag wag. "You'll figure out the tail eventually."

[mssparkle]

Okay she decides to just pounce.

[from_scratch]

Eeeee!

[mssparkle]

Good she interpreted the body language correctly! And since it's been way too long since they last had sex she will start with neck nibbling.

[from_scratch]

Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee. (Wag wag.)

[mssparkle]

Will he react positively if she wants to start undressing him again?

[from_scratch]

Yes. Yes he will.

[mssparkle]

Good, then she will go ahead and do that, and then proceed to do it to herself.

[from_scratch]

Pounce.

[mssparkle]

On one of the coffee breaks, she says, "I think my wings are probably properly vampired."

[from_scratch]

"Probably. We can go see if you can attach 'em. Do you have philosophical objections to then dumping your basement dweller into the black hole? I don't particularly want to feed it."

[mssparkle]

"Nope, no qualms."