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

[pina_colada]

"What's good?" Kerron asks. "Aedyt, Lily, this is our cousinoid, Helen. Helen, my sister, and Lily of no relation - Emperor's little sister."

[alicornucopia]

"Nymph blood," says Lily, holding up her slightly depleted glass jug. "Want a sip?"

[pina_colada]

"No thanks, I already turned it down from the source."

[alicornucopia]

"This is conjured, and it's really good," says Lily, pouring him a taste anyway.

[pina_colada]

Kerron sniffs it, then drinks it. "Okay, I'll admit, that is tasty stuff."

[telesonorous]

"Well, now I'm tempted," snorts Helen.

[pina_colada]

"I don't think it'd do anything for you. The three of us are half-vampires."

[alicornucopia]

"Aurum ones," adds Lily. "One of the other kind of vampires tried it and torched on the spot."

[telesonorous]

"But no not-at-all-vampires have tried it yet, right?"

[alicornucopia]

"Not and reported back to me. Do you really want it?"

[telesonorous]

"Sure, why not."

[alicornucopia]

Lily pours her some too. Just enough that she'll be able to see if she likes it.

[telesonorous]

Helen tries it.

"...Yep, blood," is her conclusion. "Sort of weird-tasting, not that I have a lot of experience tasting blood."

[pina_colada]

"Well, we don't really, either, except maybe Lily. Mostly it's bubbly if we're in that region of comestible at all. Very modern."

[alicornucopia]

"And even I've only tasted a handful of cooperative people, hardly the range old vampires have had."

[pumpkin_pie]

"I've had conjured human blood," volunteers Aedyt. "I think I like nymph better."

[telesonorous]

Helen giggles.

[alicornucopia]

"I'd like to be able to compare to singer blood, but I don't think hybrids have ever been confirmed to have those."

[pumpkin_pie]

"Can magic affect singerness?" wonders Aedyt. "Maybe you could get a similar experience even if we don't."

[telesonorous]

"And a 'singer' is...?"

[alicornucopia]

"I'm not sure if it can," Lily says to Aedyt, and to Helen she says, "A 'singer' is someone who smells and tastes ludicrously delicious to a specific vampire. I've heard that Bella - Golden - used to be Edward's before she turned."

[pina_colada]

"...I am pretty sure that magic can affect singerness, please do not ask me how I know."

[pumpkin_pie]

"Okay," says Aedyt, who can guess.

[telesonorous]

Helen looks at Kerron, then at Aedyt. Wheels begin turning.

[pina_colada]

"What's on your mind?" Kerron asks Helen.