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From:

theirinurpants

Lily! It's - Alistair. I have a question for you, if you don't mind. It's okay if you're too busy, or something, it's just a silly question. Probably makes me sound like an idiot. That's nothing new, though.

From:

gifted_witch

You never sound like an idiot. But of course if you need anything I'll be happy to help. What is your question?

From:

theirinurpants

See, I knew I could come to you. All right, well, um. What's a - mon-taahhhge? Like what the Atroma was talking about?

From:

gifted_witch

Oh.

A montage, it's sort of a series of short movies that tell a very abbreviated story. Imagine visual captures of your memories but telling a story in only a few minutes as opposed to you whole life.

From:

theirinurpants

So, when the Atroma say that all these people watching us on these ships got to see a montage of my life... they know all about my history now?

From:

gifted_witch

More like highlights I think. And I think it was only to our audience. Who that is we have yet to discover, it's all very odd.

From:

theirinurpants

But still. It still means a bunch of strangers know - who-knows-what about me. All the major points.

[ What if people know about the ritual? What he did with Morrigan? What if that information got out? What would people think of him then, in addition to everything else? ]

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gifted_witch

And if any of them want to say something nasty they will have to talk to me! [Lily did not care for people insulting or hurting her friends. Now granted that had blown up in her face before but gut reaction was that she would not let it stand.]

Everyone has things in their life that they wish they could take back or do differently. But they don't make you who you are completely, they are just a short bit of the road, the rest is up to you.

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theirinurpants

That's a nice sentiment, but sometimes you have to do things... or you think you do. Things you hate. Things you know are wrong. [ Like knowingly fathering a bastard with a woman you hate, to save your own skin. ]

We're - friends, right?

From:

gifted_witch

I know that feeling to. At least to some degree.

Oh, Alistair, of course we are.

From:

theirinurpants

Just... making sure. You're one of the nicest people I've met here, you know.

From:

gifted_witch

That's really sweet of you to say, I think a lot of you too.

I mean, if that's not too forward of me to say. Some people don't like to be told things like that. [Lily had more than a few friends who had been iffy when it came to discussing feelings, and well she hardly wanted to make him uncomfortable.]

And it's easy to like you.

From:

theirinurpants

No, it's - I'm glad. I like knowing who my friends are! You're nice, too, you know.

...Did I say that already? I think I said that already.

From:

gifted_witch

You may have mentioned it, but it's still really nice to hear.[That laugh is not at you Alistair, well ok maybe a little but because you are charming.]

I think it would be very hard for any woman not to like you if they got to know you a little. You're sort of easy to have a crush on.

From:

theirinurpants

Oh, a - crush?

[ Does that mean what he thinks it means? ]

From:

gifted_witch

Yeah, you know.

Oh, maybe you don't. Umm....well if someone were to, say, find you funny, and nice, and attractive and liked you maybe more than just a friend. That would be a crush.
[That sounded smooth enough to not be stupid, right?]

From:

theirinurpants

Oh, right, one of those.

[ He sounds a little sheepish. ]

I like you, too, Lily. I just - well. I promised to marry someone, back home.

From:

gifted_witch

[Marry? That was a very...that was... wow. She'd never asked him if there was anyone he liked where he was from. In retrospect that was a foolish thing not to do.]

Of course, I mean I can see why someone could be in love with you. I hope you'll be really happy, I mean that. And I hope we can still be friends.

From:

theirinurpants

[ He gives a mirthless sort of laugh. ]

Trust me, she's not in love with me. We hardly know each other. We agreed to do it for the good of the kingdom, and all that. And I don't want to stop being your friend! I like spending time with you. You won't stop being my friend just because I have to get married when I get home, right?

From:

gifted_witch

Well, no I wouldn't want to stop being your friend for anything. But, you have to marry her and you aren't in love with her? You're doing that for your people?

[And if anything that made her even more drawn to him, but that was impossible. She cared enough and respected him enough that she could be his friend. It was what he needed really, and she could do that.]

No, I think it would take an awful lot to spoil our friendship.

From:

theirinurpants

Yeah? The country was about to come to civil war - in the middle of a Blight! Anora was already queen, and didn't want to give up her claim. It was the best way to make sure everyone got what they wanted.

[ Except him, probably. ]

From:

gifted_witch

I won't lie and say I'm not a little disappointed, I mean not that you would have wanted to date but... well that's neither here nor there. You're a king and she's a Queen and I understand duty and all that.

While you're here though, I intend to make sure you're happy. [Because that' what friends do.]

From:

theirinurpants

[ "Dating" isn't really a concept Alistair is familiar with, but he gets the general idea, and he feels a little pang of regret, honestly. Lily is nice, and pretty, and if he was anyone else, he might try to court her. ]

We could... visit the moon together? Just... for fun?