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The capital is boring.
Why is the capital boring? It's the capital! It should have interesting people in it! But noo, everyone she's met so far has been an idiot. Mostly not even an entertaining idiot, just a boring idiot who thinks she should be impressed by their whatever, like, no, in order to impress her you can start by not being an idiot.
On the plus side, the party has free booze, so that's nice.
"I love you. It's so strange, how often I want to say it--we both know perfectly well it's true, it's not like saying it adds more information to anything, but there's this--urge--is this normal? It feels as though it couldn't be..."
"Well, if it's not normal, at least I'm abnormal in the same way. I love you." Snuggle.
"Mmkay. Just, I'm always the one who seeks you out and not vice-versa, so."
After another while of snuggling, she says, "so when Fia and I were talking, we referred to me as being kidnapped, but...I don't feel kidnapped? And I can leave if I want to, right? Because I love it here, I really do, but I think it would be a good idea for my long-term mental health to make occasional day trips to places where I can interact with multiple-digit numbers of people."
"Good. I love you and the others are nice too but I really do think I'll benefit from more social interaction every now and then."
"Iri never seems to have that problem, and neither do I, but I think we're unusual that way."
"Yeah. And I don't think I'll want to go anywhere people are likely to recognize me as that girl who got spirited off to the Howling Mountain, that doesn't actually sound like a fun thing to try to explain."
"...Is there anyone who'd worry about you that you want to reassure?" he wonders.
"...Not really. I mean, I had a few friends, in my home city, but I wasn't so close to them that I hesitated to move to the capitol. I don't really have any family."
"...My dad died before I was born, and my mom...didn't take it well. We were never close. She died not long before I came to the capital."
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