That must feel nice. ( Being in control. ) Did you break out? Or are did you just take control for yourself?
( The whole bit about the truth is something he needs to think on. While lack of knowledge is itself powerlessness, having knowledge you can't act on is a sort of helplessness on its own. )
... If I were going to trade for something, I'd trade for something that'd help my friends. If knowing the true nature of this thing would let me do something for them... ( Well, then he would. ) ... but I'm not voracious like you. I don't know if just knowing is reward enough.
Oh? Congratulations. That's a victory well-earned. I hope you at least took a vacation to relax, first, though. Right?
( u did it 🎉 otsuuuu (please rest)
Unfortunately, this knowledge doesn't help Hwylryn because, despite everything, he's completely paralysed when it comes to people he likes. That's the whole thing. He likes Ish, so even if he could push Ish until he broke, too, he wouldn't really want to... )
For knowledge, right? You have so many specialties.
Hmmm...that makes me sound like a nerd or something. I didn't study them, I took them all except for the magic to grant wishes. That one Norna gave to me.
Ahh, roughly... [ :thinking: ] 1700 years ago? That sounds right.
[ hwy's profile is true because at some point, numbers are fake. ]
That's right. She thought I could make better use of it than she could, since I understood humans better. And at the time, I wanted humans to be as happy as they could be.
Well, I won't say sleeping in this form for so long is the most comfortable...
( god please let him be a dragon again even a small one will do
Unfortunately, he has too much pride to ask it like that so he'll just suffer, )
... But I can't exactly get you to rest beside me under normal circumstances, can I? And if I don't see you, how will I be sure you won't round out to year 2000 of not sleeping?
Why's it matter if I set a new universal record for not sleeping? And how did you get involved!? If you're sleeping too you won't be able to see that I am so that doesn't make any sense!
( This whole proposal was out of real concern, so he wasn't trying to get a reaction out of Ish... which means getting all this as a freebie is sooooo fun... serotonin just a little bit real... )
Don't underestimate me. I can tell if someone gets up when we fell asleep beside each other. ( Getting up for water? Not so when you're in bed with a clingy dragon. ) And isn't it more appealing to do things with someone else than to do it alone? At the very least, now you can say you're just doing it for me.
( Instead of shrugging it off because you've decided you don't need it. )
... And... it would make me happy.
( And wasn't that the point of these wishes, once upon a time. )
[ he opens his mouth, having a retort for all of that until hwylyrn unfairly drops the last bit like a dagger to his heart. which he does have, even if it's a twisted black thing by now.
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Fine. [ quietly, softly. ]
Next week, I have too much to do before then.
[ his mysterious Sundays which will include dying this time. he's also looking anywhere else but in hwylryn's direction, thank you. ]
( He figured there was a good chance Ish would turn him down, but that didn't mean it wasn't worth trying.
And it makes it that much more exciting when Ish concedes - but he does not miss how Ish looks aside, and how he seems preoccupied with his plans. But - isn't he always, a little bit? He's always scurrying in and out, doing something of import.
Hwylryn, despite his demeanor, has been skeptical of Ish and his motives the past two weeks (likely longer, in those repetitions he can't recall). But he thinks he's coming to see the seams where truth and deceit meet, and pull them apart - even if he may not know the true form of the thing beneath it, yet. )
... Okay. Thank you.
( He shifts his balance, just enough to raise both hands above so they're halfway between them. Offering them for Ish to take, for no particular reason, except that he wants to. )
... Can I ask you something? You don't have to answer if you don't want to.
[ he is distracted in several ways, ways that rub up all against each other. there's no "you're welcome", but he does take hwylryn's hands after a beat. ]
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[ he's been speaking more freely yes, but he's always aware of the position he's in. ]
I slept for three hundred years at one point. I have a lot of sleep stored up! [ playfully, but then his tone smooths out once more. ]
I'm used to it. It's not like I hadn't been looping before this, but this time, I'm the one in control.
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( The whole bit about the truth is something he needs to think on. While lack of knowledge is itself powerlessness, having knowledge you can't act on is a sort of helplessness on its own. )
... If I were going to trade for something, I'd trade for something that'd help my friends. If knowing the true nature of this thing would let me do something for them... ( Well, then he would. ) ... but I'm not voracious like you. I don't know if just knowing is reward enough.
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[ he'll never be a might makes right person, but he is a if you win, you get the prize type of guy.
he laughs. ]
Is that what you consider me to be? Voracious?
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( u did it 🎉 otsuuuu (please rest)
Unfortunately, this knowledge doesn't help Hwylryn because, despite everything, he's completely paralysed when it comes to people he likes. That's the whole thing. He likes Ish, so even if he could push Ish until he broke, too, he wouldn't really want to... )
For knowledge, right? You have so many specialties.
( magical and otherwise! ur very smart )
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[ to the tune of "I'll sleep when I'm dead" 🎶 ]
Hmmm...that makes me sound like a nerd or something. I didn't study them, I took them all except for the magic to grant wishes. That one Norna gave to me.
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I thought you said you slept for 300 years. When was that?
( Lightly scolding. go to BED )
Did she give you that to make people happy?
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Ahh, roughly... [ :thinking: ] 1700 years ago? That sounds right.
[ hwy's profile is true because at some point, numbers are fake. ]
That's right. She thought I could make better use of it than she could, since I understood humans better. And at the time, I wanted humans to be as happy as they could be.
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I'm not human and I have a wish. Can you guess what it is?
( go to b )
If not, I'll just take matters into my own hands.
( somehow, )
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Considering you said you'd take matters into your own hands, I'm guessing it doesn't involve your brother. [ not at this exact moment anyway. ]
Ohhh, did you want another body of water? I can't imagine you want more torta de coco so soon.
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He won't deny those are desires he has, but: )
Should I give you a hint?
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[ he is in a Good Mood, trial went terribly!
also as mentioned, hwy is a dragon, so this is not a failure on his part. ]
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Just think of it as a game.
( Pride is serious! )
Well, it's an activity two people can do...
( For once, he's not even thinking of how that sounds,
also for bookkeeping his heart definitely seized when ish mentioned his brother in the context of wishes, but hwy talked past it, )
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Hmm.... [ it's okay ish didn't notice either. ] well I don't swim, at least not in this form.
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wait don't get distracted )
Next time, you have to join me as a fish. But only if I get to be aquatic, too.
( A miniature dragon, please, let him swim, he's on his fins and knees, )
Okay, let's see... It's something Primrose does every night...
( he doesn't know if Ish looks but he guesses he'll find out (they just go to bed no parties in there) (except thursdays apparently) )
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[ okay, back to Thinking... ]
Gossip?
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Okay but that guess makes him laugh just a little bit. Hasn't really laughed since end of trial. )
Uh-huh, definitely that. But once we're gossiped and washed up, we get under the covers and we...
( :)......? )
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Why do you need a wish to sleep? You don't strike me as the type to get insomnia. [ —or maybe he is. ]
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( god please let him be a dragon again even a small one will do
Unfortunately, he has too much pride to ask it like that so he'll just suffer, )
... But I can't exactly get you to rest beside me under normal circumstances, can I? And if I don't see you, how will I be sure you won't round out to year 2000 of not sleeping?
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Don't underestimate me. I can tell if someone gets up when we fell asleep beside each other. ( Getting up for water? Not so when you're in bed with a clingy dragon. ) And isn't it more appealing to do things with someone else than to do it alone? At the very least, now you can say you're just doing it for me.
( Instead of shrugging it off because you've decided you don't need it. )
... And... it would make me happy.
( And wasn't that the point of these wishes, once upon a time. )
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(...) ]
Fine. [ quietly, softly. ]
Next week, I have too much to do before then.
[ his mysterious Sundays which will include dying this time. he's also looking anywhere else but in hwylryn's direction, thank you. ]
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And it makes it that much more exciting when Ish concedes - but he does not miss how Ish looks aside, and how he seems preoccupied with his plans. But - isn't he always, a little bit? He's always scurrying in and out, doing something of import.
Hwylryn, despite his demeanor, has been skeptical of Ish and his motives the past two weeks (likely longer, in those repetitions he can't recall). But he thinks he's coming to see the seams where truth and deceit meet, and pull them apart - even if he may not know the true form of the thing beneath it, yet. )
... Okay. Thank you.
( He shifts his balance, just enough to raise both hands above so they're halfway between them. Offering them for Ish to take, for no particular reason, except that he wants to. )
... Can I ask you something? You don't have to answer if you don't want to.
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