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Shatterblade: Good day, Thyel. How are you?
Soulstorm: Ah! Itaviir!
Soulstorm: What’s up? I’m doing great!
Shatterblade: Good to hear. Can you talk right now?
Soulstorm: I can, yes! Vret is asleep after a busy day.
Soulstorm: Let me just read what you sent me…
Soulstorm: OH! You’re making it official?
Shatterblade: I am, yes.
Shatterblade: Galyn, Vikalos and I have been together for so long. We decided it would be nice to bind ourselves in an official manner. You are invited to both the ceremony and the after-party.
Soulstorm: Hah, I noticed!
Soulstorm: I appreciate the invite.
Soulstorm: Want me to RSVP now?
Soulstorm: I have a plus one as well now.
Shatterblade: An RSVP is appreciated. You have not really mentioned a… a plus one though. Are you dating?
Soulstorm: It’s… more than just dating…
Shatterblade: Oh. Congratulations! What is he like?
Soulstorm: She.
Shatterblade: She?
Soulstorm: Yeah. I found this nice lady.
Soulstorm: We like each other a lot.
Soulstorm: The reason I’ve been out of the loop as of late is because of her.
Soulstorm: I had no idea Warmths took so damn long to build.
Shatterblade: … You found a Beh’ena?
Soulstorm: Yeah.
Soulstorm: Funny story.
Soulstorm: I came across a ship being attacked by Voidborns end of last year-string.
Soulstorm: Did what I always do.
Soulstorm: Jumped in, saved the day.
Soulstorm: Killed the Voidborns, opened up the ship.
Soulstorm: There was a little Beh’ena inside.
Soulstorm: Her name’s Vret, she actually is fucking ancient.
Soulstorm: Like, so ancient that she predicted what would happen with the Golden Pure.
Soulstorm: She left, went off to become a Decay Lord then…
Soulstorm: She did it, but on the way back here, she got frozen and ended up going the long way back home.
Soulstorm: So she just…
Soulstorm: Slept through everything.
Soulstorm: By the time she got back, the Golden Pure became the Golden Doom and then they all died.
Soulstorm: But she was thankful for me saving her.
Soulstorm: And she likes me.
Soulstorm: For some reason.
Soulstorm: But also…
Soulstorm: She wants to do “what she should have been doing”.
Soulstorm: She’s decided she likes me enough to want to use me as a Dosai.
Soulstorm: But unlike Golden Paradise Beh’enas, she wants to be more personal about it all.
Soulstorm: I get to be a Warm Guard again as well.
Soulstorm: But more importantly, I’m helping to build the Warmth.
Soulstorm: And I’ll be allowed in whenever I want.
Soulstorm: I was just…
Soulstorm: I was really unaware of what the time scales were.
Soulstorm: It’s taken me months to convert my old home into a Warmth and it’s not gonna be done until the end of the year-string.
Soulstorm: And I had no idea that Beh’enas just… store the sperm until they’re ready to fertilise themselves.
Soulstorm: And apparently it takes a YEAR for the eggs to form.
Soulstorm: Before they are even LAID!
Soulstorm: Then it’s a 5 year wait for the eggs to develop and hatch.
Soulstorm: Or a forever-wait if something interrupts and freezes the egg development stage.
Soulstorm: And then it’s a hundred years until they are adults.
Soulstorm: Like, Retvik and Litvir? Retvik is too young for me.
Soulstorm: Litvir is ONLY JUST old enough.
Soulstorm: But anyway, yeah, to summarise, I saved a Beh’ena who is also a Decay Lord and who also got frozen in time and missed a lot and now she wants to build a Warmth with me.
Shatterblade: Huh.
Shatterblade: I will be blunt, that exact… whatever that was… that solves the question I was going to ask of you.
Soulstorm: What do you mean?
Shatterblade: I wanted to invite a Beh’ena to the wedding.
Shatterblade: I was going to ask if you knew how to contact the Golden Warmth, because I wished to invite the Beh’enas who kidnapped me and Galyn to use us as Dosai, but in all honesty, I think I would prefer the presence of your new partner.
Soulstorm: … What.
Soulstorm: You were kidnapped by the Golden Warmth?
Soulstorm: Galyn told me you both got taken as Dosai…
Soulstorm: He never mentioned that it was the Golden Warmth that took you!
Shatterblade: Galyn was unaware until recently. Admittedly, I just assumed that he knew. Turns out, he had no idea and just assumed that “a random Warmth” took him.
Soulstorm: It’s fun though, right?
Soulstorm: The sex and stuff.
Shatterblade: It is nice. Not something I ever expected to experience. Unfortunately, Vikalos is unaware of the time scales around Beh’enlu and is sad that it will be so long until he sees… well, he sees them as his kids now. Even though the eggs probably have not even been fertilised with our sperm yet.
Soulstorm: Probably not.
Soulstorm: I am having so much sex though.
Soulstorm: I suppose you’ve always had a lot of sex.
Soulstorm: Since you’re partnered and stuff.
Soulstorm: You’ve been with Galyn in particular for fucking ages.
Shatterblade: Admittedly, our love was very… hidden for a long time. I mean, I was in line to becoming a Black Blade, I was not allowed to show affection to lower Phantai. And we did not really accept that we liked each other for real until after we left the Phantai. But you are correct, I do enjoy a far better romantic life than most Beh’enu. Especially these days, since the Thantir were renewed.
Shatterblade: So, can I expect to see you at the ceremony? Your Beh’ena partner is also welcome, and we will set aside any amenities you require for your partner. We are already setting up space for our other guests, so we can sort out anything you may also need.
Soulstorm: I don’t think we’ll need anything.
Soulstorm: Apart from maybe a cushion for Vret to sit on.
Soulstorm: Because she’s fucking tiny.
Shatterblade: Well, whatever you need, we shall provide. And we would be honoured to have a Beh’ena present at our ceremony.
Soulstorm: Well count us both in! I can’t wait!
Shatterblade: I appreciate your accepting of my invitation. I wish you a good day, Thyel.
Soulstorm: Same to you, Itaviir!
Soulstorm: Say hi to Galyn and Vikalos for me!
Soulstorm: And also give Litvir a cheeky wink for me.
Shatterblade: I shall do the former, but not the latter. Would seem a little weird.
Soulstorm: Fair.
Soulstorm: See ya!
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