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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.

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Re: [King's Year 194, winter]

[xistential.insanejournal.com]

... No. [sighs] I'll just have to watch you leave, I suppose.

Re: [King's Year 194, winter]

[xceptional.insanejournal.com]

[quiet]

I can't bring you into a warzone. Otherwise...

Re: [King's Year 194, winter]

[xistential.insanejournal.com]

[puts a hand on Noric's shoulder]

I know.

Re: [King's Year 194, winter]

[xceptional.insanejournal.com]

[not when he already knows the kind of things he's going to witness.]

Maybe I didn't think of this as home, for a long time. But I do now.

Re: [King's Year 194, winter]

[xistential.insanejournal.com]

It will always be your home.

Re: [King's Year 194, winter]

[xceptional.insanejournal.com]

[smiles, some tension leaving him.]

Re: [King's Year 194, winter]

[xistential.insanejournal.com]

I'll be here whenever you can come back.

Re: [King's Year 194, winter]

[xceptional.insanejournal.com]

[huffs a bit]

Of course you will be.

Re: [King's Year 194, winter]

[xistential.insanejournal.com]

Exactly. There's nothing to worry about.

Re: [King's Year 194, winter]

[xceptional.insanejournal.com]

Well, I'm glad to hear it. As long as you take your own advice.

Re: [King's Year 194, winter]

[xistential.insanejournal.com]

What advice?

Re: [King's Year 194, winter]

[xceptional.insanejournal.com]

That there's nothing to worry about.

Re: [King's Year 194, winter]

[xistential.insanejournal.com]

Advice? I was being truthful.

Re: [King's Year 194, winter]

[xceptional.insanejournal.com]

Good to know.

[gets up from the chair.]

Now, what food have you got lying around?

Re: [King's Year 194, winter]

[xistential.insanejournal.com]

There's some lizard meat I killed today.

Re: [King's Year 194, winter]

[xceptional.insanejournal.com]

Any vegetables?

Re: [King's Year 194, winter]

[xistential.insanejournal.com]

I think so.

Re: [King's Year 194, winter]

[xceptional.insanejournal.com]

All right, I'll see what I can do.

[heads into the kitchen.]

Re: [King's Year 194, winter]

[xistential.insanejournal.com]

[goes back to his book]

Re: [King's Year 194, winter]

[xceptional.insanejournal.com]

[starts making dinner. definitely not having a mild doki-doki feeling at cooking again.]

Re: [King's Year 194, winter]

[xistential.insanejournal.com]

[can't help it, he's grinning widely because he can feel it]

Re: [King's Year 194, winter]

[xceptional.insanejournal.com]

[leave my domesticity alone I am a serious priest now :(]

Re: [King's Year 194, winter]

[xistential.insanejournal.com]

[uh-huh]

Re: [King's Year 194, winter]

[xceptional.insanejournal.com]

[comes back in with two plates, handing Xavier one of them.]

Re: [King's Year 194, winter]

[xistential.insanejournal.com]

Thank you.