Re: Gothel getting accepted @ witchesreign

[seethelanterns]

...So she really is coming? But...Eugene and Merlin....oh no.

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[seethelanterns]

Yes. It belonged to the Lost Princess. And...well, apparently we saw them but I don't remember that myself. Eugene does though, he says we defintely saw them.

It sounds wonderful! A...boyfriend? [Well, Eugene is also a boy and her friend, that must be what she meant, right? Right!] Well, Eugene...likes me. He's a boy and a very good friend! Hm, I'm glad you have people there for you.

....Flynngene? [A giggle. Well, I guess.

[corona]

But... Wouldn't we remember the floating lanterns? It's our dream.

Oh, a boyfriend is very different from a normal friend. When you have a boyfriend? You're a couple. So you do couple things! Like holding hands and going on dates. And kissing, which is the best part I think. Kissing is fun. You kiss because you do like each other. They tell you that you're beautiful and that they want to be with you and everything just... it makes you feel good. All of it. But only you two are allowed to do those things because it's special. You're friends but - but it's more than that. And you're family also but... More.

It's - [ again the sigh ] - complicated.

[ ... ] Is that why you're anxious about Mother coming? Because she'd be unhappy about you and your friends?

[seethelanterns]

Well, I was taken while we were at Corona but before we go out on the boat to see the lanterns.

Oh....well, I guess that's...sort of like Eugene and I then. [She had kissed him once, after all. Gothel seemed rather worried about it for some reason, her sharing a room with him.]

Yeah. She hurt Eugene back home, I don't want her to hurt him or Merlin at the Garden.

[corona]

Taken?

Really? [ oh that's funny ] I can't even imagine that. Doing boyfriend things with him, I mean. Having Flynngene as a boyfriend would definitely break the guide-and-guidee code.

But Mother wouldn't hurt them would she? Your friends? Not if they make you happy and keep you safe.

[ But even she doesn't believe that. ]

[seethelanterns]

Taken by the Time Compression to the Garden.

There's a code? It just sort of....happened, after everything we went through together and then he showed up at the Garden and told me more about what happens back home and--yeah.

I hope she doesn't.

[corona]

So...sort of like the Draft that brought me to Hogwarts. The spell.

We weren't wrong then? Trusting him, I mean. Not everyone is trustworthy. But... I hadn't known that then.

There's a lot we didn't know, huh?

[seethelanterns]

I guess?

We weren't wrong to trust him, not at all.

A lot.

[corona]

I hope you're happy in your Garden, Me. I know I...probably shouldn't say it? And I don't mean that I was unhappy before. In our tower, I mean. I wasn't. Definitely not. But -

But I'm happy. And whatever Mother says to you? I really want for you to be too. I think maybe... we deserve it.

[seethelanterns]

I am. I'm happy here. And I think...we deserve tbis too.