Sparkles mates on Milan
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"...also if you become the same thing I am and ever look at me you'll reciprocate so. There's that."

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"That's. Good to know."

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"Other than that... my world has a my-species queen who is slowly rolling out knowledge of magic—it was secret until very recently—and making everyone immortal... I'm severely understating how horrible the turning process and the thirst for blood are... and I think now you have all the information I can give you relevant to all of this."

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"I do not particularly yearn to experience a horrible thirst for blood. And, no offense, the mate thing sounds kind of horrifying."

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"—I mean, if it weren't for the 'mutually' part it would be worse, yeah, but I—it's not like I've changed, I'm still pretty much myself, I care about the same things, more or less, just added a term involving, um, you. It's not too different from what it would be if we'd dated for a long time and I fell in love with you and all that except it's stronger and magic—and there's some evidence that there's an added sense of—possessiveness?—and an expectation of reciprocation built into it, but those if they exist independently at all I'm trying to just plain ignore. The part where I—seem to care more about what you want than what I want is more because I'm trying to compensate and not be too pushy and not be a burden but maybe the best way to do that is try to act normal and just ask you out."

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"Yeah, 'added sense of possessiveness and expectation of reciprocation' are the sort of thing that makes me very wary. The 'except it's stronger and magic' part is also pretty unnerving."

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"The magic part is only relevant if anyone tries to break it or manipulate it, the stronger part—is probably just part of being what I am, my happy is stronger, my sad is stronger, my angry is stronger, every emotion is hugely amplified. Maybe the mate bond is stronger even relative to the other heightened feelings but when you're comparing numbers that large... I have no excuse for the possessiveness and reciprocation parts, though."

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"The magic part is also relevant in that it happens involuntarily when you look at somebody. If it weren't for this thing, well, maybe we would be perfect for each other but you wouldn't be bound to that from the moment you saw me and you could go find somebody else who was also perfect for you but lived in a science fantasy world and therefore came with fewer complications."

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He stops himself from producing an involuntary whiny sound and says, "Most people won't run into this problem because most people won't run into unprecedented magical keys that bring them to... not science fantasy worlds. But yes that is a pretty big drawback."

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"Yeah."

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"But I did."

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"And this is the situation in which we now find ourselves," Milan agrees.

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"—and even beyond the part where I don't want to be pushy about it I kinda, uh, am relying on you to make decisions here because you're the native, so—what do you think we should do now—?"

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"I... am having some trouble with that," he admits.

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"Well, what were you going to go do before I—happened?"

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"I was going to go check my a-mail and then probably read a book."

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"Well, I could—" Pause. "...not do anything large-scale and ambitious at all...?"

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"That sounds like a good plan."

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"What do people even do here if they can't—science—or altruism—?"

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"...what do you mean by altruism - actually, I shouldn't ask, I'll just take your word for it that it would've been large-scale and ambitious and therefore a bad idea, no need to tempt myself."

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He nods. "But I mean in general—like, technological advances are via science, is there not technology here, how does magic development even work—maybe I should just spend the night in a library reading every book—"

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"...can you read every book in a library in one night?"

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"...well if it's a small library."

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"...it might be a good idea to avoid handling the books much faster than they're used to," he says, "in case they're not up to it, but I can't think of any other ways you could cause trouble by sitting in a library reading all night, if you actually sat in the library reading all night and didn't decide to run off and do things somewhere in the middle."

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"I won't. Promise."

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