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]

"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.

[telesonorous]

"Guesses."

[pina_colada]

He snorts.

[pumpkin_pie]

"Anyway," says Aedyt, "if you wanted to experiment, Lily, I could try to conjure you pretend singer blood."

[alicornucopia]

"I'd rather not make an idiot of myself in the middle of a Bellparty if it works. Maybe when we're back in Aurum. You can come to the tasting, stay after?"

[pumpkin_pie]

"Sure!" she says agreeably.

[alicornucopia]

"Cool, I'll send you an invitation when I have the details of the scheduling and all worked out."

[pumpkin_pie]

[pina_colada]

"So anyway. Helen here is Kas's kid. Slightly awkward amount of emphasis on 'Kas's'."

[pumpkin_pie]

"Awkward emphasis because—?"

[telesonorous]

"Because he had me by himself after he'd been wandering around missing Amariah for decades, and he didn't even mean for me to be hers but it happened anyway because of some weird thing about wishing and templates, and when she finally got back she was really mad at him for it."

[pumpkin_pie]

"...I want to hug you, do you want me to hug you?"

[telesonorous]

Helen nods.

[pumpkin_pie]

Hug.