Senecio adn Tide II

[VisAnastasis]

" My, my, would you look at that - we need to have a gathering to find people willing to take part in our extremely adorable group project, and a ball where a huge number of Beings are scheduled to appear  at once will happen tonight. Isn't it perfect? Our "let's make the most adorable moths in the world" project seems destined to be a smashing hit! " Alpha clapped his hands, his gaze upon meadow king even more fond than before, always growing a little softer whenever Svarik would be respectful and regardful towards others, like he was in his attitude to Erdel and Simbel. " Lot of Beings would definitelly be willing to give you a bit of themselves or their help in exchange for small deals, or if you promised to make a moth for them in exchange. Actually, when I think about it, even if it requires more food for Simbel, I'd be willing to chip in and give money to the food expenses subscription in order to get one moth for myself. While artefacts that enable me to appear at your location when shields open up are great and all, they still don't give me enough context to know what to expect. Like, are you attacked by demon hunters, or is there just some crazy drunk guy swinging a bottle at you? How scared of my mind from 1 to 10 should I be? Context is an absolutely awesome thing to have, yeah, so Simbel telling me what is going on when there's danger would be extremely cool, and not gonna lie, cute fuzzy fluffs are just as amazing to have, as a treat, " he narrowed his eyes thoughtfully. " We never ever could have had something like this before, because things like making communicating mirrors put enormous stress on Janus, so more than a mirror made here or there was out of the question. But moths are not hard to make, and all functions comes from feeding Simbel, so wouldn't it be damn cool for more of us to have moths? We can start small and build up to higher number over time, with Eros bringing moths to be refilled at the pond whenever they get empty, and money subscription to cover food for Simbel per moth cost. I know you guys already use Eros as messanger pigeon in all but name, it would be damn great to use him as refilling messanger to bring our moths back and forth.  "
" It... is true strain to me was main factor that limited lot of our... technical abilities, " Janus admitted timidly. " With  this... "let's make the most adorable moths in the world" project, Simbel is fulfilling main function all on his own, so our limits are much lesser. I believe for start, at least you, little Svarik, your boyfriend, little Erdel, sir Hans and Alpha should have moths. Sir Hans had great headaches in last three years having to rely to great lenghs on animal messengers between him and your Mister Falcon. Having instant communication through Simbel will be good for everyone. We finished making Senecio's artefact, so we are free to set our schedule from now on. I was planning on spending next part of the day continuing my work on little Erdel's sword first and showing how it's done to the children. I still have about two hours of work on it left, but afterwards, if you get us materials from Hans, we can start working on the snake. That way, working on it in breaks between babysitting the children, I think we should finish the snake before tomorrow morning. Snake will be my work by biggest part, while others chip in, most of labor of making its vessel is phisical and my part. Moths are easier, but since we will personalise each with different powers, I believe we should make them after the snake is done, so your safety is guaranteed. But tonight at the ball, if you agree, we... we can all come, and create a list of all people we plan to get moths to, and personalize what to put in each moth, depending on who all joins the project. I have done extensive research on Simbel's food intake back in the day, so if you need someone to calculate the value of food needed to be paid per refilling of moth  if you want to establish a refilling moth subscription for people that want to get moths to pay, I can do calculations for that, too... "

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" If I can give you an extremely symbolic blessing to spend eternity with Tide just by using words, you can well damn bet this counts as a blessing, too... It's ten out of ten blessing. I have not one single note. " Hans replied, and with his typical fierce kind of gentleness, he picked up the offered pearl. He turned it in his hand and watched it for a lingering moment with a growing grin before he delicately tucked it away in the safety of his bag. Only then did he look up, not able to quite hide for antsy and excited he was about today by the slight wagging of his tail. " Well, if I had to nitpick... perhaps just one tiny note will do. Happiness is an absolutely god damn fucked up thing, and it's often conflicting. What I mean to say - even if it does not go well for some unpredictable reason, I'd be miserable about it, yes, but I'd still be happy that we did this together. So I can not stress enough that even if it does not go well, you don't have to feel guilty or worry that anything will change between us, okay? " he very carefully put his hand on the actor's shoulder and pressed it but lightly, as if trying to gauge if he was reassuring him or not, his expression a little sorry. " I can not help but... worry just a little bit. After all, you've not once failed me, so I worry that it may push too high standards on you. Even when you somewhat fumbled, it was for the lack of knowledge of Being matters, never for the lack of giving it your all. It might honestly be good for you to try a little less hard for perfection. After all, I'm your sole audition judge. You'll always play the role you wish, even if you were the worst actor in Lowlands, " he said softly. " So, you know, it's really not about making the perfect play. It's not about practising at all... We could not rehearse at all, ad-lib everything, and make it barely passable, and I'd still have a blast doing this with you. You do not need to approach this with the same perfectionism as the play about Being wars... All you have to be is be there for me. It will still be a comforting memory even if I massively misjudged the situation and we fail spectacularly, okay? " As if to prove the truth of his words, despite nervousness in his smile, Hans's feelings rang firm with clarity of his convictions and determined protectiveness. " I'm surely as annoying to you as Tide is to me when he overdoes things... but it is my duty to say those things. I took too large a part of your heart, so I must make sure you know it's safe with me. When there are things I can see you were not told enough, it is my duty to make sure they are said enough so they can not possibly be deemed ambiguous. If I judged for a moment that you offered me the pearl out of a sense of obligation to return my goodwill instead of as your genuine blessing, I would not have the heart to take it. Nothing I do for you means you have to figure out how to return it, because nothing between us is a quid pro quo. Even if things go ridiculously bad somehow, we'll be okay. You must understand why I need to say those things, don't you?  "