Fantasy AUs

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[hououji]

I think I might give your father a heart attack if I did that right away. And I’d like to stay close—I know Adora is recovering, too.

[missedorientation]

But you're not saying no forever...?

[hououji]

I’m saying maybe we could go see a show. If it’s safe for us to do so.

[missedorientation]

I'm gonna hold you to that! There's some opera stuff, some local community theater we could dress down and hide out in... I know there's a noble downtown who's started opening up her salon to show off paintings on the weekend.

[hououji]

Considering how adverse you’ve been to attending these sorts of things with your father and I, I’m surprised you’re interested.

[missedorientation]

Yeah, cause they're boring when it's a big social thing. But we can just do it... as a normal thing.

[hououji]

Then of course. Whenever things are back to normal I'd love to spend time with you, my love.

But we are going to have to have a talk about your leaking details to the press.

[missedorientation]

I didn't say anything that wasn't true!

[hououji]

It may have been true, but it puts us all in danger. We’re on the brink of war—I gave my entire life to making sure Sefiro wouldn’t suffer, and now unless we can come to an agreement with the far, it looks like that’s the only possible outcome.

[missedorientation]

They were trying to kill you and they were lying about their reasons for doing it. If their story was the only one people heard, both the fae and the people would buy into their... bullshit.

[hououji]

Do you really think that?

Kaori, really think. Do you trust your people?

[missedorientation]

No, I don't.

[No hesitation.]

[hououji]

Why not?

[missedorientation]

How could I? When they thought it would save you, they wanted to kill Nia.

[hououji]

Did everyone? Your father told me there was only one guard who tried.

[missedorientation]

People were throwing rocks too, before all this came out. They wanted to kill her too.

[She's conflated the two as time has gone on.]

And while you guys were gone... people just kept freaking out more and more. I had to tell them something

[hououji]

Do you think telling them what was happening to Adora and I made Nia any safer?

[missedorientation]

Everyone kept saying we had to do something. Soldiers kept trying to get me to launch an invasion. Pretty sure some were planning on running in without the order if you guys hadn't already been on the way back.

And I didn't tell them that killing Nia was supposed to bring you back. Just that he was lying about his motives for trying to kill you.

[Even if someone could perhaps put together the clues there.]

[hououji]

And Nia, being a fae, was any safer for this?

[missedorientation]

Safer than being killed over a lie, yeah.

[hououji]

Potentially being killed for her associations? My dear, it put a lot of our people in danger.

It put you in danger.

[missedorientation]

Too late for that. And not any more danger than you.

[hououji]

You’re the future of our country, Kaori. You must stay safe.

[missedorientation]

And lying to people keeps me safe?

[hououji]

You can’t foster anti-fae sentiment. You are fae.