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[sortileges]

"--a message and I'll get back to you as soon as I can.

Is that it? How do I tur--"

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[hoasen]

Oh that caterpillar. [Oh she remembered alright.] Whichever you prefer. I suppose Sen is much shorter.

[WOW!

And...okay actually that makes sense.] Interesting, that is true. Sad, but still true. Are you living life just like that? Finding love even though you won't remember?

[sortileges]

That one. I had a few problems with it that night. [ Though ah. ] I might forget sometimes, but I can try.

[ But he gives her a tiny shrug. ] It isn't as though my life here is at all similar to at home.

[hoasen]

That caterpillar must've been a real...fan. [INDEED.] That is fine. I use both equally, so I do not mind.

[Thinking about it like that.] I suppose it is very different. For all of us. Which do you find easier?

[sortileges]

I don't think that's it... But. [ He pauses. ] Here is definitely easier though. I can actually have a day off, and it isn't every day something or someone tries to kill me. It's been a nice change, honestly.

[ ????? Yeah. ]

[hoasen]

[She raises both her brows immediately, since Cerealia is Special, having a bit of work to keep alive, sometimes.

But Merlin has been doing that every day?] Honestly, I never realised that having to babysit a future king lead to that much danger. You're very brave.

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[ Well. Maybe it's exaggerating a little, but he reaches up to run a hand through his hair. ]

I wouldn't say brave, but it isn't like I have any choice. It is my destiny, after all.

[hoasen]

[Considering she knows what happens at the end of the legends? It's going to be tough.]

Destiny? So...did you not agree to this in the beginning?

[sortileges]

[ And never ending loneliness. You only know one version, Vietnam, do you know the version where he never dies. ]

You've got to be joking, right? Arthur was the biggest prat I've ever met.

[hoasen]

[AH...THAT VERSION. Well he should tell her that version too. When he finds out. She needs to teach him how to stay youthful.

Also, kind of rude and kind of unsurprised about this.]

Ah yes that's right, you did mention that he was...hard to work with. What made you change your mind?

[sortileges]

[ Well he won't find out for a very long time so ... doubtful.

But yeah. ]

He saved my life. [ Simply..... ] I mean it still hasn't been easy, but he went against his father and went to get something that would be used to cure me. [ What he doesn't mention is that he'd taken a poison for him and was on his deathbed for that reason... ah. ] If he did something like that, there was hope, wasn't there? It's been getting easier over the past year.

[hoasen]

[It sucks when you don't know, so you couldn't prevent old age.]

Goodness! He did? I mean, I am glad you are okay now, Merlin! [He wouldn't be here otherwise.] But ah, so in his core, he had always been good, is that what you are saying? [The legends of King Arthur had always said he was a good man.]

[sortileges]

[ Shut up!!!! ]

I don't really know, it's probably more that when you grow up with a Power-driven father you can't help but pick up some of his habits, I guess. He was also a bully when I first met him so...

[ Yeah but the legends are dumb!! ]

[hoasen]

[DON'T DENY THE TRUTH!!!]

Oh! I see. Well, you're all teenagers, no? I hear some try to be the ultimate show offs as well to impress people around them. It doesn't always work.

[She doesn't know, she never went to school?!]

[sortileges]

[ Vietnam?! Neither did he?! What kind of explanation is this? ]

Arthur's a little older than me, actually. [ Somewhere else where the legends are Wrong to him. ]

[hoasen]

[There could've been school in his time?!]

Really? [Vietnam actually looks really shocked.] So...mid-twenties at least? Goodness, I thought he would be younger!

[sortileges]

[ no?! But... ]

I said a little... Like one? Maybe two as his birthday is before mine.

[hoasen]

[BUT WHAT...this is all so new to her.]

Oh! So still...how old are you both? [She might as well just go for it and ask.]

[sortileges]

[ pls ]

We don't follow the same calendar as what's used here. I'd say something like 19 Winters? For Arthur it's probably 20?

[ Complicated. ]

[hoasen]

[Shhhh.]

Not the same, but that sounds very similar to how a year works. There are only four seasons where you are from, no? So 19 years, and 20 years?

[sortileges]

Exactly. I had to try and work it out, but that seemed the most accurate. [ A beat. ] It could still be wrong.

[hoasen]

[She waves her hand vaguely.] Probably not as wrong as you think. Give or take one year? At least you are still over eighteen, it makes things a little easier.

[sortileges]

Easier for what? [ Vietnam??????? ]

[hoasen]

Legal purposes. They won't ask you questions.

[WHAT ARE YOU EVEN THINKING.]

[sortileges]

What kind of questions are they going to ask?

[ NOTHING HE'S JUST CONFUSED AF ]

[hoasen]

Such as, if you are allowed to drink.

[One of...many things.]