how long has it been?

[small_magics]

Isibel's beloveds are home. And they are with her. And they are quite undisturbed.

Anyone who could not guess the ensuing events would not know them very well.

She has spent over a sennight, now, with them, entangled and sleepless and so very, very glad to have them again.

It is during a lull in the proceedings - if it can really be called that, when they are sandwiched around her, Ansharil in one of his humanoid shapes, Aianon with his wings wrapping them all up in a bundle - when it occurs to her that Lycaelon was promised a kiss, once, years ago.

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[endragoned]

Ansharil is very amused by the image of the three of them going together to be married. Himself in his natural shape, and Aianon in his.

[small_magics]

Isibel is not sure she can convince a celebrant to participate in this arrangement.

[endragoned]

Nor is Ansharil. That is why it's funny.

[small_magics]

It is funny. Perhaps they can get one of her alts to perform that ceremony. Angela is so empowered by her office, she believes, and any of the empresses could award herself the power. But herself and elf-Ansharil for the local one.

[endragoned]

Yes. Plenty of weddings. That seems like a good idea.

[small_magics]

It does.

She could go seek Lycaelon now. She will not lose anything she needs to keep if there is further gazing.

[endragoned]

They might as well wait until Aianon wakes up. Which means there is time to get married first, unless getting married takes an especially long time for reasons Ansharil cannot imagine.

[small_magics]

Since it would be difficult and merely symbolic for Aianon to be physically present at the wedding, and since there will be another ceremony anyway, that makes sense. It will not take too terribly long as long as someone has betrothal pendants available for them. (She has an amusing mental image of the fluffy long creature he was on her shoulder a few minutes ago, wearing a betrothal pendant.)

[endragoned]

Ansharil giggles.

[small_magics]

People will ask her why her husband is on her shoulder and she will tell them that he is more portable that way. It will be very amusing.

[endragoned]

He kisses her, because he loves her and she is hilarious and lovely and kissable.

[small_magics]

All of those things! Isibel closes her eyes and kisses back and starts peering through the elven jewelry repositories of the world for pretty pendants. It would be gauche to conjure them.

[endragoned]

Mmm, kisses.

Ansharil will offer opinions, if she likes. (The one she gives to her beloveds should be something that will look well on any body where they might choose to wear it. Perhaps even the little furry creature she liked so much.)

[small_magics]

She would like them to match, in some ways if not necessarily in all. So this suggests purple, or green, or maybe blue which will go nicely with either color and her hollyplant-wreath, and an easily adjustable chain for Ansharil's assorted sizes. From her place in her beloved's arms she inspects the available jewelry until she finds a paired set she likes. They're heavy eggs of banded blue agate trapped in lacy swirls of delicate white wire, and they don't come with their own chains - her beloved's can be attached by their little white-metal hooks to something easily relinked for wearing on a small form. She thinks her chain will be gold; her beloveds might have any sort they like, since the chain can be conjured up.

[endragoned]

Yes. That sounds lovely. Ansharil snuggles her.

[small_magics]

And Isibel thinks it will look nice on Aianon too.

[endragoned]

That is good. Aianon will want to wear it also, when Ansharil does not. (It would look a little silly around the neck of a dragon.)

[small_magics]

Just a little, yes.

(People might ask her why she married her dragon and she could tell them, "Because I love him, of course.")

[endragoned]

Ansharil giggles again. She is the most adorable of sarions.

[small_magics]

She is! She is a very adorable sarion.

...

If her beloveds share their mind with Lycaelon, then things she thinks to them will no longer be private.

[endragoned]

—Her beloveds' mind is theirs. They will want to share it with their Bonded. How much would she need them to keep back...? It would be very hard to do, if they did not know exactly which things. (It won't be like lending their experience to Elspeth, where they could just drop everything since they Bonded to Isibel.)

[small_magics]

Nothing specific comes to mind. It would be different if she were not already having sex with Lycaelon, but she is, and does not much mind if he observes her stray thoughts of the subject, bounced from mind to mind, or those of her beloveds that concern her. It only seems in principle - troubling, if she could never have a truly private intimacy with her beloveds. Lycaelon is too introverted to want perpetual sharing anyway; perhaps she could simply - retain the option to mark things? She doesn't know what things. It would just feel more comfortable to have such a marker available than to commit to eternal flow of thought to another person for anything she wants to show her beloveds.

[endragoned]

Well, yes, of course. If there is some particular thing she does not want shared, she has only to think so and they will do their best. They can consult Liselen and Lazarus beforehand about how to make sure that the bond cooperates.

[small_magics]

Her beloveds are wonderful and she loves them ever so.

And Lycaelon has, over the last several years, demonstrated himself perfectly competent at verbal discretion; she is not worried about that.

[endragoned]

Ansharil laughs and kisses her, wrapping her up in feathered purple wings.

He loves her too.