will you marry me?

[small_magics]

When the party has been going on for a few hours but no one has left yet, everyone is called into the main room. (The dragons will have a sufficient view if they prefer to perch at the outer doors.)

Angela has worked out a ceremony that will satisfy the involved parties, a reworking of standard Samarian traditions with some revised wording and adjustments for the fact that the groom inhabits two bodies. This ceremony, unlike the elven one, doesn't involve any jewelry.

And then Sarion and her beloved are married. Again.

Comments

[thaumobabble]

"That's interesting - did it have a fluctuating one? What controlled it?"

[subtly_artistic]

"Okay then."

[carillons]

"Does everybody know about magic there?"

[pina_colada]

"Most people. Not literally everyone, but it gets closer every day."

[pythbox]

But first, apparently, more hugs.

[subtly_artistic]

Hugs.

[carillons]

"That must be nice," she says. "Magic is a secret in Samaria."

[pina_colada]

"Yeah, I've heard. You'll get there. It used to be secret in Aurum too."

[ending_of]

"It was mutable. Responsive to the influence of anyone present."

[carillons]

"We will," she agrees, nodding. "But not for a long time."

[thaumobabble]

"What's it for?"

[pina_colada]

"How old are you, anyway?"

[carillons]

"I am eleven," says Ariel.

[pina_colada]

"I think that makes you older than your alt, have you met her yet?"

[ending_of]

She shrugs. "Its purpose is not obvious to me."

[thaumobabble]

"Huh. I guess I'll tell Lissa to keep an eye out. Anyway, what changes to torching did you have in mind?"

[carillons]

She shakes her head. "I haven't. Have you?"

[pina_colada]

"Nope, I was looking for the one or the other of you and found you first."

[carillons]

"I'm not very findable in here," she says. "Did you have to look hard?"

[pina_colada]

"I looked for a while, but you were still more findable than Hyacinthe."

[carillons]

"I bet she is somewhere you wouldn't expect anyone to be," says Ariel.

[pina_colada]

"Maybe. Why's that?"

[carillons]

"Because I go places like that, and if you found me before her she's probably even less findable."

[pina_colada]

"Suppose so. Do you want to be alone, when you do that, or is it something else?"

[ending_of]

"To the ability to distribute it," she says. "It's irritating to bestow it individually on your alts and their friends. I would rather make it replicable. And you seem to do enough editing of which characteristics persist that it would be worth including that capacity. To distribute the effort even further, you could optionally make the recipient able to modify their own persistent characteristics."