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[xceptional.insanejournal.com]

Who: Noric and Xavier
Where: ramshackle rustic house near the Lacerta border of Lepus
When: Year 185, late spring (and onwards)
What: married life

[In the kitchen, Noric shouts through the door into the next room.]

Xavier, either you move this pile of books from where they are, or they will tragically find themselves knocked into the fire.

Comments

Re: [King's Year 194, winter]

[xceptional.insanejournal.com]

And what have you been doing this past year?

Re: [King's Year 194, winter]

[xistential.insanejournal.com]

Nothing much.

Re: [King's Year 194, winter]

[xceptional.insanejournal.com]

No trips?

Re: [King's Year 194, winter]

[xistential.insanejournal.com]

I went to Lacerta for supplies, but I didn't travel very far.

Re: [King's Year 194, winter]

[xceptional.insanejournal.com]

Ah, I see.

Re: [King's Year 194, winter]

[xistential.insanejournal.com]

I wasn't in the mood to travel.

Re: [King's Year 194, winter]

[xceptional.insanejournal.com]

Well, it does take a lot of time and effort.

Re: [King's Year 194, winter]

[xistential.insanejournal.com]

Exactly.

Re: [King's Year 194, winter]

[xceptional.insanejournal.com]

[shifts a bit]

Speaking of, I'll be here for a couple of weeks, before I need to head out again.

Re: [King's Year 194, winter]

[xistential.insanejournal.com]

What for?

Re: [King's Year 194, winter]

[xceptional.insanejournal.com]

To Orion... the beastmen have declared war.

Re: [King's Year 194, winter]

[xistential.insanejournal.com]

[he stiffens]

I see.

Re: [King's Year 194, winter]

[xceptional.insanejournal.com]

Some other Ophiuchus have already left for there, but otherwise, they're on their own.

Re: [King's Year 194, winter]

[xistential.insanejournal.com]

Well, then. What are you waiting for?

Re: [King's Year 194, winter]

[xceptional.insanejournal.com]

Excuse me?

Re: [King's Year 194, winter]

[xistential.insanejournal.com]

You can't dawdle here. You have things to accomplish.

Re: [King's Year 194, winter]

[xceptional.insanejournal.com]

I know very well what I have to do, and I will get to it.

Re: [King's Year 194, winter]

[xistential.insanejournal.com]

Then why are you here?

Re: [King's Year 194, winter]

[xceptional.insanejournal.com]

I'm here to see you.

Re: [King's Year 194, winter]

[xistential.insanejournal.com]

That's cruel.

Re: [King's Year 194, winter]

[xceptional.insanejournal.com]

[a flash of hurt stabs through him.]

Ah. My mistake, then.

Re: [King's Year 194, winter]

[xistential.insanejournal.com]

[winces, as the feeling hits him]

[quietly] Are you ever coming back?

Re: [King's Year 194, winter]

[xceptional.insanejournal.com]

Funny, I thought I just did.

Re: [King's Year 194, winter]

[xistential.insanejournal.com]

No, you're not. This is just a stop.

Re: [King's Year 194, winter]

[xceptional.insanejournal.com]

Yes. Yes, I'll come back. But Xavier, it's not going to be the way it was before. I thought you understood that, when I told you I was going to become Ophiuchus.