"Blue," he says, with a faint, faint smile. "And robin's egg blue fading to turquoise on a four-second cycle. Respectively. You kept getting up and down confused in the steering, and you told me it was because the axis was reversed from what you were used to in a haut float-chair, and I offered to rewire the controls, and you said that if there was a standard across all lightflyers you'd rather learn it but if different brands steered differently you'd rather have what you were used to, and I said that's good because I don't know how to rewire the controls in a lightflyer—yet, and you giggled."
He takes a deep breath.
"When we were talking to haut Kety from inside that stolen bubble you kept making this face every time he called you 'love' and you rolled your eyes when you said it back. And you didn't know what clarium was. You cut Nadina's hair. Everyone kept thinking that Ivan was the mastermind and it ticked me off immensely. I fell onto the inside of the force-screen... one time I asked you how pathetic it was that I fell to my knees when I first saw you, and you said it was endearing because you like the way I project my experiences into the world, and I declared an intention to become insufferably smug about it. When we got married the first time the candies were shaped like little flowers in little bubbles and I couldn't quite decide if the symbology was as obvious as it seemed but I never asked. When you first told me to call you Linya it was in the embassy foyer, between getting married and leaving the planet. After the first time we made love you met Ivan in the corridor and told him I was sleeping and he cracked up, and the next time I saw him we kept giggling at each other and I could not for the life of me explain to you why. I still can't, for that matter. It took me something like a week before I figured out how to disengage from marital relations of my own will instead of just going on until you wanted to do something else or I fell asleep on you. Also the first time you kissed me was after I admitted I'd been arguing with Ivan about whether or not I was going to be, ah, maritally disappointed. You picked me up. It was quite adorable."
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Date: 2014-09-11 03:23 am (UTC)He takes a deep breath.
"When we were talking to haut Kety from inside that stolen bubble you kept making this face every time he called you 'love' and you rolled your eyes when you said it back. And you didn't know what clarium was. You cut Nadina's hair. Everyone kept thinking that Ivan was the mastermind and it ticked me off immensely. I fell onto the inside of the force-screen... one time I asked you how pathetic it was that I fell to my knees when I first saw you, and you said it was endearing because you like the way I project my experiences into the world, and I declared an intention to become insufferably smug about it. When we got married the first time the candies were shaped like little flowers in little bubbles and I couldn't quite decide if the symbology was as obvious as it seemed but I never asked. When you first told me to call you Linya it was in the embassy foyer, between getting married and leaving the planet. After the first time we made love you met Ivan in the corridor and told him I was sleeping and he cracked up, and the next time I saw him we kept giggling at each other and I could not for the life of me explain to you why. I still can't, for that matter. It took me something like a week before I figured out how to disengage from marital relations of my own will instead of just going on until you wanted to do something else or I fell asleep on you. Also the first time you kissed me was after I admitted I'd been arguing with Ivan about whether or not I was going to be, ah, maritally disappointed. You picked me up. It was quite adorable."