texts } for charming and felicity

[graveflowers]

[Sometime between her night with Luthir and the funeral -- maybe she is still in bed, maybe she is at the church, maybe she is just sitting eating her cereal, who knows, use your imagination -- her two closest friends at the castle get the following, very different, text messages:]

text to charming

Is there a less high school word for boyfriend that isn't... manfriend?

text to felicity

ADFGHJKLLOJH. I caught my great white whale!!

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[uncease]

Significant other?

[And then a few seconds later.]

Wait. Why?

1/2

[allmydreams]

Nice going, Ahab.

[it comes back almost instantly, like she didn't put much thought into the response. There's a time change, she probably just woke up don't judge her.]

[allmydreams]

[then, nearly second later.]

SHLAUHELHA OMG WHAT? TELL ME EVERYTHING RIGHT NOW!

[graveflowers]

Just curious. For curiosity's sake. And curiousness.

[graveflowers]

[There is the capslock she was looking for.]

OMG it was the best. I had a speech and he is perfect and ugh it was like a Nicholas Sparks movie with way more sex.

[uncease]

You're a terrible liar

[graveflowers]

Okay fine, did I ever tell you about my elf?

[uncease]

No?

[graveflowers]

He is perfect. I can't even. sdfghjk

[Yep, keysmash pm explains it.]

[uncease]

You can't even what? Is something wrong with your phone?

[graveflowers]

God sometimes I forget you're so old fashioned. I have a significant other (maybe I should double check) and he is perfect, his name is Luthir and I love him. That's the gist of it.

[uncease]

[Know what? He will just take his cute birthday texts and lock picking adventures elsewhere if you keep this up, missy. But no, guess who you have texted about this? Pretty much the biggest champion of true love ever (even if he doesn't know why).]

That's great Vi! I'm so happy for you.

[graveflowers]

RIGHT? Me too! Which is kind of weird since all the shit that went down.

[uncease]

You holding up okay? Been worried about you.

[graveflowers]

I'm not that okay. But I am really good at distracting myself so I don't know if it hasn't hit yet or it hit already and I didn't notice or what. I'm kind of just waiting to crash.

[uncease]

Call me if you do? Unless your perfect elf has it under control. Then call me after.

[graveflowers]

[That is so sweet. And she is never going to do it because she doesn't ever want to worry her first friend. She already worries too many people.]

I will. So that necklace you gave me? I might have given it away. For Jade, so she would be buried with something that held happiness and love. I'm sorry, I should have asked first.

[uncease]

You don't have to apologize for that. That was really thoughtful of you to do for her.

[graveflowers]

It made me happy wearing it, I figured she deserved that too. We'll have to pick out a replacement when I come home.

[uncease]

You got it. It'll give me an excuse to get out of here for a bit anyway.

[graveflowers]

All cooped up? No adventures for Prince Charming?

[uncease]

It's not that. It's Amara.

[Amara, who he forgot he never mentioned. Whoops.]

[graveflowers]

You know that explains nothing, right? Nothing with a side of more questions. Who is Amara?

[uncease]

Sorry. Things have been crazy and I didn't know how to explain it. She was this sorceress we came across on the mission. Her people have this curse on them, and I guess it means she thinks she loves mes now.

[graveflowers]

So she... loves you because a curse made her? Wow.