Good, I can be left in peace when I’m dead. ☺️

[AWAKE. Stares at Petra.]

…-Those look fertilised. I will not eat fertilised bug eggs.

[Falls asleep standing up again]

He left the match and never came back, that’s a forfeit if there ever was one.

I won.

[ESCAPES AGAIN. They hit hour four of this game.]

You really need to apologise, I at least asked my husband if he minded if I played chess today instead of using him as a pillow all day.

Your death will be, I don’t think your wife is happy you’re not spending a romantic holiday with her.

[Sighs. Manages to get out of the move.]

Premature, I’d say. I’m not letting you win just because I rather spend time with my husband.

Please let me end this chess match, I need to kiss my husband and fall asleep on him. Also Ingrid looks like she might commit a crime.

Fine.

[SITS IN THE PRIESTS SEAT.]

Confession is closed.

That…doesn’t mean others aren’t. Caspar, we did so many horrible things…

I did things that would terrify anyone…

[Blue eyes gaze at his husband, and Lin takes a steadying breath.]

I’m…-okay.

…-Memories, mostly. Of the war.

[A tremor rakes his hand, and he focuses on stilling it. It’s over. He’ll never be asked to take another life…]

A spot of localised tornado level winds, that’s all. The tree survived.

[Staying perfectly still. Time to detree.]

I had…-a bit of a magical outburst due to a nightmare while napping in the shade.

[That hasn’t happened since they were kids.]

Sap?

I suppose I do.

This wasn’t on purpose, and the twigs are so tangled I need some help.

Babe.

[Guy who got in a fight with a tree and whose hair suffered for it]

@vonbigly.bsky.social

I need sleep. And you still can’t show me the rules I apparently broke.

No.

You are the kindest, most loving and devoted partner I could ever ask for, and the closest companion for my life, both platonic and romantic.

I do, because if you look at your collar, the spell is still active.

It’s holding you by the shirt still.

You are standing.

Ergo, I did not drop you. Now leave.

[FINALLY the spell is released. Since he is standing and cannot argue the point much more.]

He insulted my husband, I had every right to kick him out.

If I was visiting him and insulted Ingrid, I’d expect him to kick me out.

That I have no standards because I picked you.

Your feet touched the ground before i released the spell, check your facts.

I did not throw him, nor did I drop him.

And it wasn’t over the game. He insulted you.

I set you on the ground, lying looks horrible on you.

Path of least effort, why did you expect anything else from me?

Gently levitated. The door would take too long and he was irking me to no end.