falling ill

[keep_busy]

A few months after the business with the chalice, Annie (with a gold engagement stud in one earlobe, now receiving mail at Aldaras's apartment, and thoroughly comfortable with Being Necklaced, to the point where she's helping mold the thing towards more exacting standards for real-world-practical as well as theoretical compatibility) is in bed with some unidentified sort of head cold or flu. Aldaras doesn't have it so far, so she is snuggled under the covers while he makes her spicy soup to help clear her sinuses and because she's having a little trouble with non-liquids. He's worried, she's mostly just groggy. Zzzz.

Comments

[darkest_evening]

"Sure."

Getting up: cannot happen until she is not in his lap anymore.

[namesthesky]

Aya is conceptually aware of this but having trouble with the execution. Eventually she floats to a standing position (yay, non-mind-control flying necklace) and heads for the portal.

[darkest_evening]

Prime follows. He is not going to call attention to the trouble with getting off of him. That would be rude.

Portal! It is right there where they left it.

[keep_busy]

Annie and Aldaras are snuggled up on the couch with their copies of the executive summary of things.

"Uh, hi, Spring, Prime."

[touchedinthehead]

"Hi," says Aldaras, for lack of anything better to say.

[darkest_evening]

"Hello. We have questions."

[namesthesky]

"Separately, at least to start. If that's okay."

[keep_busy]

"Uh - sure." Annie kisses Aldaras and gets off the couch to lead Spring to the bedroom for separated conversations.

[namesthesky]

"Am I going to - calm down?" Spring asks Annie plaintively, once the door is closed. "Whenever I have a moment in which I'm not miserable or scared or confused I'm so horny I can barely stand it. I can't even ask - it'd be too - he's not - will it calm down?"

[keep_busy]

"...Uh, some," says Annie. "I think. I didn't have the - when I touched it we pretty much had sex immediately. If you don't - I'm not sure if that will change things, but for me, it calmed down enough that I can go to classes and read and so on without - problems."

[namesthesky]

"Okay," sighs Spring. "And - I don't want to ask your fiancé myself but if you find out I'd like to know about what happens when it's one way, his example is better than no example even if he's not a Bell."

[keep_busy]

"I'll ask. I'm so sorry."

[namesthesky]

"I know." Spring sighs and opens the door.

[darkest_evening]

Meanwhile:

"... What's her Adarin-number?" wonders Prime. "And can I have an analysis of it."

[touchedinthehead]

"'Adarin nu-' right, uh. She. Doesn't have one. She's like - 999999 in my head."

[darkest_evening]

"Oh."

That is alarming.

[touchedinthehead]

"Yeah. I mean, it's still - I'm - my head's working all right. It just had a renovation."

[darkest_evening]

"Yes, I imagine that would be quite a renovation."

[touchedinthehead]

"A bit. It leaks into other things, too. There was a part in one of the books about how the numbers are - how they're on the same scale? I'm pretty sure mine are not on that scale. Because I'm factoring in how things affect Annie, too. Because..."

[darkest_evening]

"999999. Error. Yes, I understand. Thank you."

[touchedinthehead]

Aldaras nods.

[keep_busy]

When the door opens Annie sidles out and flops on her fiancé again. Kiss!

[namesthesky]

"If you haven't gotten to that section yet," says Spring, "Katydid has a fix for the clumsiness. You can pop into Hex for it if she's not around whenever you're ready."

[keep_busy]

"Yeah, I read that part, but it didn't seem urgent compared to reading the rest."

[touchedinthehead]

Kiss! Snuggle.