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Characters: Signless, Disciple, and au!Tavros [CLOSED]
Date: The day after this conversation.
Format: Prose
Content Warnings: Should be none!
Summary: A long-promised get together for story telling.

Disciple secretly hopes that this little get-together will help Signless feel more like himself again, and so it's both for his sake and for Tavros' that she puts a great deal of effort into preparing for it, using some of her prize money to get some treats for them to snack on, extra cushions to make their currently tiny hive comfier. It's not like any of it will go to waste, because they can just take it all to their new hive once they move in, something that she's hoping will happen very soon.

The others have been warned of Tavros' visit of course, out of courtesy as well as because she doesn't want there to be any bad reactions to a purpleblood they don't know about in their hive. And now, having done all she could to make sure they have a comfortable time together, she goes to gently shake Signless awake from the nap she insisted he takes so that they can wait together for their guest to arrive.

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"I believe so too." He settles more comfortably when Disciple is next to him, and he winds an arm around her. "Though I cannot help but wonder if they will truly allow people who wish to leave as promised to do so when the time comes."

Good things. Focus on the good things. ""Still, I have met many people and learned new and interesting things that I would never have had a chance otherwise."

Them openly cuddling like that is a little awkward with him here, but they're so casual that he doesn't make too much of a scene in reaction. Tavros isn't really used to seeing "pity" or their type of affection, so it just strikes him as novelty.

"Yes! Uh, my moirail and a dear friend, Equius is a very kind person I think, he uh, is just really weird too. It's so far very nice, we flooded the basement and made it rather comfortable for Sole and I, and Equius has a, uh, work room? Upstairs, so he can work on his projects, like the train set he said he would make me! I am thoroughly excited by this train, that is a fact." Nod nod.

"Leave? Hm, well I really don't know. I do not necessarily want to leave anyway, not yet I mean, I may later, want to leave, for for the time I am comfortable here and not leaving." Tavros nods again, getting a little more excited.

"Surly swimming scalebeast I know! I am most definitely enjoying the company of all these new and really interesting folk! It is pretty cool to learn about other worlds and the like."

They don't even mean to be cuddling, or at least Di doesn't. She's simply used to attaching herself to people she cares about, and lately, after everything that's happened, getting her to let go of Signless tends to be a problem. She can't help but cling to try and keep an eye on him and remind him he's not alone.

She nods as she listens to Tavros telling them all about his hive, a smile playing over her lips again at his description of Equius, and at how excited Tavros seems to be at the prospect of a train set. "He is a little strange, isn't he? But I like talking to him - it was strange at the time but he was the one to tell me I had a descendant, because she's his moirail and he said we're very much like each other. We've been speaking quite a bit since then, I got him to promise to visit us at some point too."

And then she falls silent and thoughtful as Tavros declares that he doesn't actually want to leave. She knows the feeling, she has no wish to leave either - she can't exactly say she's happy here considering the state Signless and Psii are in, but given time she believes they can all be far more content than they ever were on Alternia.

"I think there are a lot of us who'd rather not leave, but it's only fair that we try and help the ones who do. Some of them seem to really want to go back to their homes." She lets a smile blossom across her face at his enthusiasm, nodding in agreement. "To learn about different worlds and different times as well! I can't stop wondering what Alternia must be like for you - and I know you were curious for a story or two from us as well!"

Cuddling is a comfortable habit they'd gotten into ever since he finally accepted the fact that she worked herself into his heart and built a permanent home there, and there's no way he could ever deny that he hasn't been ever stronger for it. He appreciates all she's done and continues to do, even if it seems she's been taking lessons in meddling from a certain jadeblooded guardian he knows.

"I'd like for a chance to speak with anyone who's willing, I want to know everything that's happened on Alternia since I've been... gone." He's already heard horror stories, things that triggered memories of vague and long deteriorated dreams he could make little sense of. Maybe if he can hear about it from a troll he'd be able to make more sense of it, but of those he's met, ones who'd be willing seem few and far between.

"I've always found that sharing in stories is the greatest way to both learn and impart knowledge on to others." A smile. "And it's also very fun!"

It's not necessarily the cuddling that makes him a little awkward, it's the obvious affection behind their actions he's not used to seeing. Normally all he encounters is pale feelings between he and his moirail, it's rare when he would see two red lovers like them. Tavros is just in general more nervous about romance than the average troll. He knows a lot is expected of him as a seadweller, and frankly, he sometimes just thinks he'll never amount to what he should. Especially in all the romance business.

"He is really strange-" Pause, chuckle, his lips curving into an endeared smile. "Excuse me, extremely strange." See, he made a joke, an x joke. Though now thinking about it, without Equius here to appreciate it, the joke is just kind of dumb, whoops.

"Oh-? His moirail is. Uh, okay. Well that kind of links you two, in a way, I guess, kind of... not, not really, glub." Glances down. Descendants, ancestors, he wishes his not!descendant would have spoken to him more, ugh. What if, Dualscar and his actual descendant acted the same? And both would have treated him like- Ugh, no no, this is happy, he's around Disciple and Signless, they are nice. Focus on that.

Tavros's fins flare a little before closing and sliding back neatly under his ears bay his jaw. "I'll remind Equius to do that then, he uh, can get kind of nervous it seems like? Which is not very productive to visiting people."

"Oh, whale there certainly are a lot of people to speak to here! And uh, I bet trolls from where you're from, which is not the same as where I am from but actually a different place entirely, would be willing to talk to you and tell you about everything!" Nods. "Yes! it's really fun. I have really been enjoying learning about humans and stuff too! Like my friend Toph can do this thing called earth bending and it is pretty much the coolest thing I have seen in a long time." Well, besides trains, trains trump everything.

Disciple has spent enough time speaking to Equius, not to mention Darkleer, that she does get the joke after a moment, tossing her head back and chuckling. Describing him as strange or not, she's decided that Tavros and Equius must be on pretty friendly terms by now and she's glad for it. The blueblood seemed rather lonely the last she'd spoken to him, especially considering that his moirail wasn't around.

"A little bit, perhaps," she agrees, nodding. "At the very least it made me curious to talk to him and we seem to get along. I...knew someone rather like him once, but Equius is younger and easier to get along with." And she's never felt the pressing need to bite him to get him to be sensible, the way she does every single conversation she has with Darkleer.

"Oh, but don't you worry about that! If he forgets I'll remind him myself," she adds with a mischievous look. She is nothing if not persistent and now that he's said he'll visit, well, she intends to insist on it!

"Toph...oh, yes, I think I've met her! But I can't say I know what earth bending is. It's amazing what some of the people here can do. Although," she shakes her head, laughing, "I don't think anything can ever beat the first time I saw Psii using his psionics."