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[prayerwheel]

Who: Azura + you
When: late Noveuer
Where: the Outer City, the river, & around
What: questing and some magic practice
Warnings: possibly some discussion of nsfw things but nothing explicit


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[ So...this is one of the few times Azura's actually ventured out into the Wilde. Not unwillingly, she just usually stays content taking work in the Inner City, doing shopkeeping work and testing items. But she's doing something a little more dangerous this month, as dangerous as going to the Outer City might be. For the first time in a while, she pulls her lance out of its spot by her bed and takes it with her.

You can catch her as she's departing, lance in hand, out in the Outer City on the medical team, sorting out medicine. ]

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[ Or maybe you're not venturing out there. Azura can be found practicing her magic by the river. Specifically, she's trying out her barriers and ice magic. ]

Pardon. If you have a free moment, would you mind tossing those at me? I'm trying to test the strength of the barriers I can make.

[ She gestures to a little bucket full of tennis balls. THROW THEM AT HER LET'S DO THIS.

The ice magic is a little. Uh. Well, she's using it on the bottom of her feet, and then running across the river. It works, because ice forms on the surface of the river and supports her, preventing her from crashing into the wintery water. She looks pretty tired after that, though. She's probably gonna have to work on this one, more. ]

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[prayerwheel]

[ She definitely looks well! Like she's actually been getting some sleep, compared to the last time they saw each other. ]

Yes, I've been feeling much better, lately.

[ the wonders a bond can do ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ ]

Yourself?

[ the test can wait a moment ]

[unyieldingmarch]

That's good.

[She's pleased by this, and by Azura's apparent improvement.

It's nice to see people's health getting better.]

I'm as well as can be expected. My changes have been limited thusfar, and my bonds have curbed any impulses.

[It does occur to her...]

Corrin and I bonded, about a month ago, in fact. I do not know if she told you. But I feel truly blessed.

[prayerwheel]

Ah--!

[ her eyes widen. wait, what? ]

That was you? [ .... ] She told me that she'd found someone to bond with, but we didn't discuss details...I should have asked her, really.

[unyieldingmarch]

That is correct. She and I met in the dream before arriving and she's been very companionable since.

[She sounds really pleased, honestly.]

She even helped Caspar and I locate the source of the mists in the district. The...thing you and I spoke on before.

[prayerwheel]

I do remember you mentioning that. But, ah, it didn't seem pertinent at the time.

[ edelgard was kind of a mess at the time ]

She's mentioned our relationship, I take it?

[ for any interpretation of the word 'relationship' in this case ]

[unyieldingmarch]

That you were from the same world, yes. And that you were allies and good friends.

[She tilts her head to the side, curious at the wording.]

Are you romantically involved?

[prayerwheel]

She--

[ ah. Her cheeks go red and she stammers for a moment, looking like she wasn't expecting that question. Okay. Yeah. Bad choice of words, she probably just should have said "our history." ]

...er, yes. It's, ah, a bit of an unconventional relationship, but yes.

[ azura it's fine you're in the company of another disaster bi who gets real gay with the f protag, calm down ]

[unyieldingmarch]

I see.

[Edelgard's tone is wry, but not amused or judgmental. She simply accepts it as fact, with a smile and a nod.

Unconventional...that certainly was a word for so many arrangements here, wasn't it? Her own with Corrin, her own with Hubert, and with others. Strange...]

You have known one another a long time, then?

[prayerwheel]

No, actually. Only about a year.

[ give or take a few months. what are time scales in Fates

But...okay, that was a pretty lowkey reaction from El. Azura lets out a breath as she spins one of the tennis balls in her hands
]

But our lives have been intertwined since we were children. It is...a very long story.

[unyieldingmarch]

It sounds it. I'd like to hear some of it, sometime.

[She wants to know Corrin more intimately, frankly. To know everything about her, though she does not want to pry too deeply, either.]

She has been...exceedingly helpful, if I'm being honest. Is she always so earnest?

[prayerwheel]

As long as she doesn't mind.

[ that gets a light chuckle out of Azura ]

Oh, yes. She's one of the most noble-hearted people I have the pleasure of knowing.

[unyieldingmarch]

She's certainly that. I've met few as genuine as her, too.

[She's really all compliments for her bonded partner, okay?]

[prayerwheel]

You're getting along, then, I take it?

[ that makes her very very happy to hear ]

[unyieldingmarch]

We wouldn't have bonded if we didn't I think.

[Realistically, would it have even worked?]