we feel misfortunes deep and keen

[dark_light]

Pensive cuddling goes on a long time.

Path nudges against Kas occasionally, almost like he's testing over and over to see if it hurts, but he never flinches, so it must not.

Comments

[telesonorous]

"You should go sometime," she says. "It's even better when you turn invisible so you don't cast shadows."

[dark_light]

"That's a good idea," agrees Path.

[telesonorous]

Kalavar giggles.

[dark_light]

"Stella has her palace on her moon. We haven't decided where to put ours, but we're thinking the new land of the dead, since it's cheap for us to modify things there."

[telesonorous]

"A palace on the moon would probably be distracting," says Kalavar.

[truthwright]

"No kidding," says Petaal.

[dark_light]

"Yes," agrees Path. "Not just the moonlight but the unobstructed stars, all day long. So probably either the land of the dead, or one of the poles."

[telesonorous]

"The land of the dead would be more... legendary," says Kalavar. "And harder for people to show up and bother you. Well, depending where you put it, I guess."

[dark_light]

"We think we are legendary enough already. More than enough," shudders Path. "That movie poster looked awful."

[telesonorous]

"There's lots more," says Kalavar. "Not very many of them are that bad, though."

[dark_light]

"You've seen them?"

[telesonorous]

"The posters, yeah. We skipped the movies."

[dark_light]

"We would not be happy about it if awful movies about us were a primary source of information about us for you."

[telesonorous]

"Awful movies aren't a good source of information about anything," says Kalavar.

[dark_light]

"Yes. But we don't know what else there was to go by. We have never been legendary and extremely missing before."

[telesonorous]

"For a while we didn't even know the Shade-Dreamer and our secret mom were the same person," says Kalavar.

[dark_light]

"When did you find out?"

[telesonorous]

"After we saw the aquarium," she recalls. "Ranata was flying us to Charlie's house and we saw a billboard with Isabella's name on it."

[dark_light]

"And you noticed the name matched and asked?" guesses Path. "Or Ranata just chose then to tell you?"

[telesonorous]

"Yeah, we noticed."

[dark_light]

"What do you know about us? What did Ranata and Kas say?"

[telesonorous]

"I don't know," says Kalavar. "Things. They talked about you sometimes. They missed you a lot."

[dark_light]

Path's wings shush against his sides. "We knew time might be different. We didn't know it was going to be this different."

[truthwright]

Petaal nuzzles him.

[dark_light]

Nuzzles. "We missed you too, though," he murmurs.