ITL 97

[Mountie]

My heart went pang too. 

            “Where a god’s consciousness is, that god is.”

            Bade sat back in his chair, thinking about that.  Right.  Yes, okay.  “Kudorin having a physical, human form throws me off, sometimes.”

            “Kudorin is a man.  Anosukinom is much larger than the human form you see.  He has a god’s consciousness within a human body, but it’s not trapped with a human’s limitations.”

            “Right.”  Which meant that anything was possible.  Even things that weren’t possible.  “Your own brother could make you exist as the person you are now, and as a woman in ancient Ilaeia, and as your own descendant five generations from now, simultaneously, on a whim.”

            Orinakin smiled.  “I think that we’re all fortunate that Kudorin’s whims don’t extend that far.”

            Yes, very.  The things that Kudorin did were unnerving enough, frankly.

            Orinakin’s fingertips slid along Bade’s jaw, brushed across Bade’s lips.  There was a faraway look in his exquisite purple eyes, and Bade wondered what he was thinking.  With a soft smile, Orinakin touched Bade’s cheek.  “I was just thinking that I won’t have any direct descendants.  And that doesn’t bother me, because I never planned to have any, and because I know that Kudorin will see to it that there’s another purple-haired royal diplomat to follow me.  But I wish that there could be more of you in the world.  There’s a pang in my heart, when I think that your children, your grandchildren, their children, will never exist.”

[Mountie]

*chuckles* 

            “I can still see into everyone else’s future,” Kudorin replied.  “I can look for repercussions.”

            “Of course you can,” Anosanim agreed.  “And of course Xio Voe’s so vastly intelligent, it makes sense that he would bond with you in this way.  It’s probably very exciting for him to be able to speak with someone who knows more than he does.”

            “And he’s even smarter than Selorin is,” Rini said.  “You can talk to Xio Voe about stuff the rest of us don’t understand.  He knows all about science and what’s inside our bodies.”

            “I hope,” Remin said dryly, “that we haven’t bored you all of these years, Kudorin, with our mundane and elementary conversation.”

            Kudorin laughed.  “Only sometimes.”

[Mountie]

And  again...

            “Anikira’s in charge of the belams, and Xio Voe might want them to do weird stuff.”

            “When he becomes king, he’ll be in charge of the belams,” Selorin pointed out.

            Rini sat upright, apparently finding that information even more convincing.  “See?  We have to know what he’s into before he’s in charge of the belams!  When he’s running things, he might make them do crazy stuff!  Kinky stuff!  With cheese and snakes!”

            Cheese and snakes?  Bade could almost imagine where the snake would come into it, but cheese?  What kind of cheese?

[SilverMoon28]

Bade has too many thoughts.

[Mountie]

I howled with that one trying to figure out what they could do with hard and soft cheese and why Bade wanted to know. 

[CourtneyLee]

I just love how Bade is torn between his prudish cultural upbringing and how open his in-laws are about sex:

“Wait, wait,” Rini said.  “I just want to check, is anyone in the room interested in hearing ‘you’re all way too into size’ from Orinakin?”

            “I’m interested in hearing anything that Orinakin has to say,” Kudorin said, rising as the table solidified again.

            “What’s wrong with my opinion?” Orinakin asked.

            “The man who cooks with the finest of fresh ingredients should not begrudge the dissatisfaction of those who eat scraps,” Remin said.

            What?  What did that mean?  Scraps?  Orinakin was beautifully endowed, yes, but so were all of his brothers, so-

            “Let’s just say,” Selorin said, briefly meeting Bade’s eyes, “that you didn’t find your husband in Lorbain.”

            Bade’s cheeks burned as he realized what they meant.  How had this subject come up, anyway?  And how had they gotten around to discussing him?  Life had been simpler when he’d lived in the castle, where no one but Vade knew what his dick looked like hard.  The number of people who’d glimpsed his erection here was humiliating.

            “It would be humiliating,” Orinakin corrected him, “if none of them had liked it.  So far, you’ve been very popular.

            While Bade practiced dying of embarrassment, Selorin flashed Bade a flirtatious smile and Anikira burst into helpless laughter.