the new kid in town

[veratrum]

[There's a new god in town, folks.

Or, rather, there's a babby outer god about town today, looking remarkably human and poking around at stuff and things. He can be found just about anywhere, and may indeed pop up literally out of nowhere, just to see what you're doin'.

On a completely unrelated note, by the end of the day much of the higher-ups at London Port authority are dead and Liam's sitting on the bridge and whistling.

Poke the abomination y/n?]

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[hairpine]

[S-Smoothing it back out. If he doesn't mention it then she won't mention it and this embarrassing display just never actually happened. It's All Fiction, we'll say just for the purpose of this thread, even if he hasn't actually died to get it back yet.

Anyway, she's completely red.]

... Bind it properly -- ah, yes. All right.

[All right.

See, you didn't get rejected. It's okay.]

[veratrum]

You have to take my hand, Michi.

[He's just going to hold it out. Waiting. Pretending this isn't awkward.]

[hairpine]

[Hand. She has hands? What is a hand? That's the


thing at the end of her wrist, right? With the other, gangly things attached to...

right

yes

It takes her a minute or two, her heart is pounding and she doesn't know what she's doing oh god she's seeing someone now what if he hates her, but she takes his hand.]

[veratrum]

[For a moment, there's nothing, just them holding hands on a bridge and if anyone sees this Liam's exploding their head but--

then the world shifts. She probably feels it moreso than a human was, as Liam writes the term of the contract into the walls of the world.

On her thigh she can probably feel a mark form; a graceful, looped triquetera knot, if she inspects it later, and the same shines brightly, for a moment, on Liam's forehead, before fading away as it's done.]

There, it's done.

[hairpine]

... Is that all?

[No kiss like in the shitty romance novels she reads over her maids' shoulders when they're off-duty? Just a handshake?

You'd think she'd be more familiar with this considering she was on the giving end a few days ago, but.]

[veratrum]

I--um. Can do it other ways but I don't, er.

I've never done anything like that before...[Which is to say that would be his first kiss and Liam is a delicate virginal maiden.]

[hairpine]

[shit

ok um

pretend

you're talking to Kumagawa? ok]

-- If that were something that you would like to do, then I certainly would not feel proper discouraging you, Ku -- [shit who is this again]

-- Liam!

[veratrum]

...Um. [LADY THAT IS ONE HELL OF A BUZZKILL.]

If...that's the case, just remember the right name this time, mmkay?

[Not that she's. Going to get much time to respond because he'd just going to. do this and it is light and really awkward and holy shit you are now kissing the cosmos and can probably literally see into forever.]

-S-sorry.

[hairpine]

[And she goes completely stiff. It's not really his fault, not a result of his presence or the fact that she just kissed a Lovecraftian horror in a human-shaped wrapper.

No, that was just her second kiss ever. Relatives don't count and they do it so sparingly anyway, loathe as they usually are to touch her at all. Kumagawa took her hand, and just then Liam took her mouth. Lips, more appropriately. It'll probably be a bit before we get to the whole thing.]

-- Erm. Yes.

[veratrum]

Y...es.

[Um.

What now.]

[hairpine]

-- T-Thank you, for loving me. I'm very grateful.

[veratrum]

Ahaha...you'll have plenty of time to thank me, now. There's no need to rush that...

...Right, we should. Find Kumagawa.

[hairpine]

-- Liam, please allow me to do at least this much! Please come to eat dinner with me this week!

[veratrum]

[...Oh, gosh. He blushes quite magnificently at that and his grin is too big for his face and if he had a minus it would be a minus made of pure moe.]

Aa, I'd be honored to, Michi.

[hairpine]

Father will be delighted to meet you!

[veratrum]

Ahaha...ha. I hope so, I never really learned fancy table manners.

[Well, he probably won't try to kill him with a hammer. Yet.]

[hairpine]

Oh, but your table manners must be far superior to Kumagawa's, at least!

[You at least use silverware.]

I doubt that he will mind at all!

[veratrum]

...He seemed a little...overprotective.

[Realtalk for a second, Michi.]

[hairpine]

If you and I are together, Liam, then it is highly unlikely that he will make any attempt to murder you.