Celebrity

[touchedinthehead]

Aldaras lets the university have hold of the necklace again so they can finish learning everything about it. He'll start molding it when the Dean's learned all of its quirks - trying it now could accidentally make some aspect of it worse. Besides, it takes time, it's not like he can manage any progress in the time that it'll take for the Dean to identify anyway. Best to know where he's going when he starts going there.

News spreads pretty quickly about the knife's new location at the bottom of the ocean. Aldaras and Sintre become celebrities, along with being rich. Sintre is nigh-impossible to find in his hermithood. Aldaras - is not. The necklace is his. The mission to go encase the knife in concrete was organized by him. He's now deemed to be an important person, and as bewildering as that is, he works to roll with it.

He ends up invited to a party. It's the type of party with lots of important, famous people attending. He can bring one guest with him.

Right, he knows who he wants to bring, but first he has to ask her. Time to go find Annie.

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[keep_busy]

So eventually they are snoozing on each other. In, mercifully, Aldaras's bed.

[touchedinthehead]

Yup. Snuggled and exhausted and in love.

[keep_busy]

Annie eventually wakes up, but she doesn't get up right away. She stays snuggled up, thinking.

[touchedinthehead]

Aldaras is out, she's entirely free to think in peace. And privacy, thanks to the necklace.

[keep_busy]

Yes, that's very nice. She gets up eventually and puts on enough clothes to slip out of the room and look into the breakfast availability situation.

Thinking, thinking.

[aestrix]

Breakfast is available, in various cookable and non-cookable forms! And Zevaia is not present. She's a smart girl.

[keep_busy]

Annie gets some cereal and goes to eat it in Aldaras's room because he is nice to be near.

[touchedinthehead]

He stirs soon enough, yawning and blinking blearily. He smiles, when he sees Annie.

[keep_busy]

"Morning," she says, petting his hair.

[touchedinthehead]

"Mornin', beautiful," he mumbles. A morning person he is not.

[keep_busy]

She eats her cereal. Think, think.

"That guy who told you the - unsettling thing - what's the main effect of his artifact?"

[touchedinthehead]

"Never learned. Can ask?"

[keep_busy]

"But it hasn't been publicized?"

[touchedinthehead]

"Nnnot that I know 'f?"

[keep_busy]

"And its side effect involves talking. Do you think we could put out a false rumor about what it does that would make it appealing to the thimble thief and set a trap?"

[touchedinthehead]

"I love you," he declares. "Let's do that."

[keep_busy]

She beams and kisses him.

[touchedinthehead]

He kisses her back, clumsy from drowsiness.

[keep_busy]

And she finishes her cereal and puts the bowl aside and flops on him. "Something transportational or maybe stealth-related. And maybe the original owner can be convinced to take the thing home so the thief's not risking an assault on the university again when they're expecting it."

[touchedinthehead]

"Bet the university," he adds, "will help. S'not like I don't have their number..."

[keep_busy]

"Yep."

[touchedinthehead]

He giggles, a bit. "I love you," he adds, again. "You're clever."

[keep_busy]

"I love you too."

[touchedinthehead]

Snuggle.

"Iiiii need tea or won't be function'l for hours," he mumbles apologetically, kissing her and then getting up to figure out how to put on pants. It's surprisingly difficult.

[keep_busy]

Annie helps. Mostly.