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[faeshim]

birds dance or build a nest. rabbits play and jump over one other. deer will battle for a mate.

but how does human courtship work? i would very much like to know.

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[inthewood]

That makes it very confusing.

[faeshim]

it's a wonder that human birth rates haven't plummeted from the confusion!

[inthewood]

From what I know, when someone wants to court, they call on their beloved, bring flowers, take walks together.

[faeshim]

humans are fond of flowers...that makes me happy. i can give them flowers whenever they want.

1/2

[inthewood]

Specific flowers have meanings. I can help you learn them.

2/2

[inthewood]

Are you... not human?

[faeshim]

for me, different flowers bloom for different people. but i would very much like to learn this language that you know.

not human, but fae.

[inthewood]

(( Oh no! Silver might be kinda-sorta slightly obsessed with fae... Probably shouldn't have told him that. Now Daeshim will never be rid of him! ))

Really???

[faeshim]

[daeshim's only worry would be that he ends up a disappointment - plain and wingless, with blood that's neither this nor that. he was never popular amongst his own.]

mm. i cannot lie.

[inthewood]

Can you tolerate iron?

[faeshim]

...sometimes lennon sprinkles iron shavings across the threshold of his secret room door to keep me out of it.

[and he's pouting about it.]

[inthewood]

A secret room? How mysterious!

[faeshim]

too mysterious!

[and he doesn't have a human's understanding of boundaries.]

he is mine, why does he need a door between us.

[inthewood]

Ah, well, humans need a degree of privacy, I'm afraid. Even my flatmate and I spend some time apart.

[faeshim]

but don't you like your flatmate? and what do you even do when you're alone?

[inthewood]

I like him very well.
Things I do without him are private things like bathing and sleeping. Well, we don't really sleep apart. He always falls asleep in my bedroom. I must bore him terribly.

[faeshim]

i'm allowed to come in when lennon is showering! if the door is open.

[they had to work out a system for it. otherwise, naked fae whenever you least expect it.]

no. it doesn't sound like you bore him at all. it sounds like he wants to spend every waking moment with you, and so that's what he does.

[inthewood]

You're a couple, aren't you? That seems like a thing that would be acceptable between a couple.

(( He pointedly does not address the second part of that text. He's just going to think about it for the next five years or so. ))

[faeshim]

i did not trick him into marriage.

[because fae don't get married, that's a human thing. this was more of a...lifelong agreement, of sorts.]

but i would probably do it even if we weren't.

[inthewood]

Really? That's very... bold.

[faeshim]

bathing alone makes me feel lonely.

do you take a lot of baths?

[run.]

[inthewood]

I wouldn't say a lot. I do bathe regularly.

(( When he hasn't lost all track of time for days on end. ))

[faeshim]

maybe next time i could take one with you.

[inthewood]

(( um... ))

I don't make a point of bathing with others.

[faeshim]

[humans and their solitary bathing...]

then you have never experienced someone else washing your hair! it feels amazing.