I Like Long Walks On The Beach

[iamnotpolaris]

The beach is a nice, convenient, out-of-earshot place to calibrate the coordinates for this universe.

Comments

[not_only]

And there is Sivath, right where she left him!

[iamnotpolaris]

"I got the bag. Saravasse was leaving just as I showed up."

[not_only]

"Good timing, then."

[iamnotpolaris]

"Yes. Although, to be fair, we don't know that the cuddling is going to descend into uninterruptible things at all, let alone as soon as all the witnesses are gone."

[not_only]

"That's true, we don't."

[iamnotpolaris]

"I think I am actively going to decline to form an opinion either way."

[not_only]

Nod nod.

[whatamithinking]

Meanwhile, back in a location one would have to be very creative indeed to describe as a ranch: Snuggles.

[endragoned]

Cozy snuggles! With wings! Best kind. What a lovely and huggable person Edie is. The demon and his dragon have immense affection for her, and are not shy about sharing it.

[whatamithinking]

She's probably not going to literally get high off of that, but no promises. And she's not shy either about sharing immense affection right back.

[endragoned]

Cozy telepathic snuggles. Excellent. They are so cozy and so snuggly and so telepathic. (The telepathy is very definitely a positive trait that Edie has.)

[whatamithinking]

...Hee.

Most people don't think that. (brief memory of various people, mostly in Milliways, reacting with fear, mistrust or even sympathy when she tells them she's a telepath.)

Not that no one has (brief impression of Emily's opinion on her sister's telepathy, which is unambiguously positive) but it's rare enough to make it all the more appreciated.

[endragoned]

Well, everyone in this cuddlepile likes her telepathy very much.

[whatamithinking]

It feels so nice not to have to restrain herself. Not reading peoples' minds isn't difficult, exactly, any more than keeping your eyes closed all the time would be difficult once you'd gotten used to it, but it's not natural for her and it's lovely to be able to just relax.

[endragoned]

She can relax in this cuddlepile as much as she likes!

[whatamithinking]

Mmmm...

Vaguely she wonders whether the dragonbond or the millenia of isolation had any impact on their mental openness or whether they just weren't culturally indoctrinated into the idea that mindreading was bad or if it was just them.

Probably that last one. They are so extremely themselves.

[endragoned]

They are very extremely themselves, it is true. And they adore her and want to share themselves with her.

[whatamithinking]

This is extremely lucky, considering she had half fallen in love before she ever laid eyes on either of them.

[endragoned]

Yes, that's one of the things they find so endearing about her.

[whatamithinking]

Affection and happiness.

...Edie might almost suspect this wasn't real, but there's no way her mind could just make them up.

[endragoned]

Making them up would be fairly difficult to do. They are so very themselves.

[whatamithinking]

So very very. It's a great deal of what's so lovely about them.

[endragoned]

That is good. It is good to be liked for how very themselves they are, because they are not about to start being any less themselves anytime soon.

[whatamithinking]

Good. And--she wouldn't be surprised if there were telepaths this didn't apply to, but because she is a telepath, liking someone for something they are not is not going to happen.

[endragoned]

That works out very nicely, then, doesn't it.