i wasn't looking for this

[from_scratch]

This is a successor to call me maybe and trade my soul for a wish, which were getting crowded.

with Emily (Maggie)

with Alex (ErinFlight)

with Destin (Rockeye)

with Nick (Rockeye)

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[from_scratch]

"Are you okay?"

[iamnotpolaris]

"Oh, I'm fine. She's fine too, I'm pretty sure. But, yeah, she is the one the permanent life-changing thing happened to. I'm--pretty orthogonal to the whole thing. But, you know, she's my sister, something that makes a major difference in her life is going to make a major difference in mine."

[from_scratch]

"Naturally. What permanent life change is she dealing with?"

[iamnotpolaris]

"Well, I think the extent of what I told you was that there was telepathy going on--that's nothing new for her. She can't turn it off, which I imagine is going to take some getting used to...and..." she gropes around for the right words. "I think there's some kind of...I don't know how to explain it...going on. I...I don't think it's literally possible for her to stop loving the dragon--and the demon--now, or for them to stop loving her."

[from_scratch]

"Well, that would certainly be alarming to encounter unexpectedly."

[iamnotpolaris]

"Mhm. And she's known them less than a day."

[from_scratch]

"So this is going to come with some major life rearrangement that she wasn't already long-term setting up."

[iamnotpolaris]

"Yeah. I mean, it probably helps that we weren't really what you'd call stable right now, what with all the universe-hopping trying to get home, and we already figured that it was going to take long enough that some things were going to change by the time we got back, but."

[from_scratch]

"But."

[iamnotpolaris]

"But in one day she met a guy and fell in love with him without having actually exchanged two words or even seeing his face and then went of and did--things--that I don't want to think about my sister doing and now she's dragon-married to him! More than married! All in one day! I don't know how to handle this."

[from_scratch]

"You were expecting more warning before she got hitched, huh?"

[iamnotpolaris]

"Among other things!"

[from_scratch]

"Things like it not being an eternal psychic bond, presumably."

[iamnotpolaris]

"Yeah. Although if that was going to happen to anybody unexpectedly, Edie was a good choice. I just, you know, wish that maybe the major 'your life quota of surreal has been upped' moments could be a little more staggered, you know?"

[from_scratch]

"I'll take it up with the rationing board for you."

[iamnotpolaris]

This actually provokes a giggle. "If you actually meet interdimensional beings of extreme power, maybe ask after who build Terraria."

[from_scratch]

"I'll put it on my list."

[iamnotpolaris]

"But. Yeah. I honestly cannot think of a better person to end up unexpectedly psychically bonded than the telepath who's never quite satisfied with how much people usually choose to share. It'll be good for her, probably, having another person who doesn't mind her reading whatever in their mind she wants. I...don't think I specifically object that it happened. It's just. A lot."

[from_scratch]

"And now your interdimensional jaunt has an attachment. An inextricable attachment."

[iamnotpolaris]

"Oh. Yeah. I mean, we were going to bring him with us anyway, that part hasn't really changed in the short term...I wonder what introducing him to our parents is going to be like. Papa's a geneticist, he's probably going to want to talk genetics to him or something."

[from_scratch]

"At least you're not imagining horrific inlaw-related strife."

[iamnotpolaris]

"Pff. No. I sincerely doubt Edie would have fallen for someone who was going to be irreconcilably opposed to our parents."

[from_scratch]

"Even though it's a magic thingamajig?"

[iamnotpolaris]

"She fell for them before the magic thingamajig happened, remember? If she hadn't, I promise you we would have an entirely different set of problems."

[from_scratch]

"Love at first TMI, right, sorry, I'm not accustomed to keeping track of this sort of thing."