There was a sleepy ping against eir sensorium and ey looked back at the house. “Dear’s awake.”
Sorina kept looking out into the prairie, out away from the house.
“Do you want to come back and say goodbye?”
-“I don’t know, Codrin,” she said, voice hoarse and clouded with emotion. “I really don’t know if I can.”
+“I don’t know, Codrin,” she said, voice hoarse. “I really don’t know if I can.”
Ey nodded. “I think they’ll understand.”
“Yeah, I do, too.” She finally turned to face em, smiling through her tears. “Do you think you’ll even tell them you did this?”
“I don’t know.” Ey laughed and squeezed eir hand, tighter this time. “I don’t know that I have that much sneakiness within me.”
@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@Dear laid its ears flat and stepped back a half pace, growling. “Mx. Codrin Bălan, you are the worst.”
“What?”
“You cannot say things like that to a hopeless romantic. You will destroy them. They will collapse into a swoon. They will drown in their own tears. It is frankly irresponsible. Now, if you will excuse me, I am going to take a shower and cry my fucking eyes out for a bit.”
-Ey rolled eir eyes, leaning over to tug at the fox’s tail before heading to the kitchen. “Welcome to the club. Go get your shower, though, and cry all you need, but no drowning, please.”
+Ey rolled eir eyes, leaning over to tug at the fox’s tail before heading to the kitchen. “Welcome to the club. Go get your shower, though. Cry all you need, but no drowning, please.”
It grumbled and stumbled off to the bathroom, setting up a cone of silence as it went.
“What was that about?” eir partner said from the bedroom door, looking somewhere between groggy and worried.
“Sent a fork to Artemis, made Dear cry. The usual. I’ll tell you all about it later. Coffee?”
@@ -91,8 +91,8 @@“Yeah, basically.”
“Carry on, then, professor Bălan.”
Ey took a deep breath, collected emself, and said what ey’d been practicing since ey’d started back to the house. “I have a proposition, and I suspect it’ll be easy enough for you two to decide on, but I’ve been thinking about how this all started and my complaints about feeling dragged along on adventures rather than taking part actively. I want to do something. Actually do something.”
-Both eir partners sat up straighter, suddenly more excited than before.
-Ey grinned to them. “Lets move to Convergence.”
+Both eir partners sat up straighter, suddenly more invested than before.
+Ey grinned to them. “Let’s move to Convergence.”
Dear blinked and laughed. “Codrin, you are such a fucking nerd.”
“You mean the whole sim?”
“Of course. All that work on those cairns? Of course it’s coming with. I want to show them the prairie.” Dear leapt up to wrap its skinny arms around eir middle and ey shrugged as best ey could in the midst of a hug. “I want to show them what our home looks like. I want to see Stolon sun themself out in the grass. I want you both to meet Turun Ko.”
@@ -120,7 +120,7 @@“And probably throw a party. Smaller than for Launch, just friends, but there simply must be champagne.”