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[vanyel_ashkevron]

I'm tired, Mun. What do you wish of me? I have played your games before and found little enjoyment in them.

[He looks up from darning a blanket. Why yes, he can darn. Shut up. It's manly.]

What do you mean anything is possible?

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[vanyel_ashkevron]

I am protective of those I care about.

[wildgift]

I think I prefer "devious."

[vanyel_ashkevron]

If you find that alluring then, yes, I am devious.

[wildgift]

I knew it.

[vanyel_ashkevron]

I was worse when I was young.

[wildgift]

That must have been a sight.

[vanyel_ashkevron]

There was a reason I was sent to Aunt Savil for training. Though I imagine my father was just afraid I was fey.

[wildgift]

That seems unfair.

[vanyel_ashkevron]

You think? The idea made him very uncomfortable.

[wildgift]

That sounds terrible. I'm sorry.

[vanyel_ashkevron]

I'm fine. I wouldn't have met Lendel otherwise.

[wildgift]

I...guess there's that, at least.

[vanyel_ashkevron]

Does it make you uncomfortable to hear his name? Some have the wrong impression of him.

[wildgift]

No, it's not that...

[vanyel_ashkevron]

What is it?

[wildgift]

I don't...really know.

[vanyel_ashkevron]

Stefen… [He frowns and pulls him into his arms.] He is in my past. I loved him - I love him - but we cannot be together. I have mourned for him all of these years and you are the first to make me hope that I might feel love again.

[wildgift]

[Sigh.]

I'm being stupid, aren't I?

[vanyel_ashkevron]

For feeling upset? No. [He smiles softly.] I would feel upset too if you had someone like him in your past.

Yet I want you to know that you have nothing to fear.

[wildgift]

I'll try to keep that in mind.

[vanyel_ashkevron]

Keep this in mind as well. [He brings their lips together warmly, kissing Stefen with all the sweetness and tenderness he has wanted to show him for so long.]

[wildgift]

That will certainly be difficult to forget.

[vanyel_ashkevron]

And you will have more to fill your mind tonight.

[wildgift]

I'm looking forward to it.

[vanyel_ashkevron]

Perhaps I can find something soothing for your aching hands.