Fantasy AUs

[nerdietalk]

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[fluidgender]

...it'll be a long time, I fear. A lot of harm has been done. A lot taken.

[hououji]

We have to try. For their futures.

[fluidgender]

There's a lot of things about the future to worry about...

[hououji]

I know. But we take them one thing at a time, like we always do.

[fluidgender]

Like always, huh. Maybe we're too used to stress.

[hououji]

Have we ever had a moment without it?

[fluidgender]

[They laugh, nuzzling into her neck.] Maybe. Maybe not.

[hououji]

The only peace I have ever had was with you. I feel it again right now.

[fluidgender]

...The priestess told me some bad news. Its not... an emergency, but... do you want it now? Or later?

[hououji]

[ Fuu looks up at them, terrified. So the peace is gone again. ] Is Adora all right? I know they were doing something terrible to her, I thought I was able to shield her from the worst of it…

[fluidgender]

The children are fine. Adora is fine, Catra is fine, I'm fine, and the kingdom is fine.

[hououji]

Then… what’s wrong?

[fluidgender]

...The arrow had magic in it. It took out more from you than we thought.

[hououji]

The priests healed that, though. I feel just fine now.

[fluidgender]

There was something... we couldn't expect.

The fae king has been stealing life from his victims.

[hououji]

[ She blinks??? Finally, she sits up, trying to figure out what ranma means. ]

[fluidgender]

[They sit up with her, still holding on.]

They say... twelve years. Whatever your natural lifespan would be... he took twelve years from it.

[hououji]

… [ She stares at ranma, trying to process. ]

More? They wanted more from us? Was our daughter, my ability to have children, our guards, our daughter’s sense of security, your father—w-was that not enough?

[fluidgender]

[There's no words. They just... wrap their arms around her in a gentle embrace.]

[hououji]

… twelve years. You’ll be alone twelve years.

[fluidgender]

...you think so? I'm doubtful I'd make it that long even without the fae intervening.

[hououji]

I’ll leave our daughter without her mother twelve years too soon…

[fluidgender]

...maybe. Maybe.

[What else can they possibly say against that? No joke could possibly alleve the inherent pain of such unfair proceedings.]

[hououji]

And—and he’ll get those years?

[fluidgender]

That's our guess. It's how he's lived so long.