Day 8

[faintwaves]

...Everyone?

Do you think it's too late to change partners?

Comments

[notapigeon]

You can't have mine.

[faintwaves]

I wouldn't want to split you up you seem very happy together


it's just that um mine

I think mine resents me for existing

[notapigeon]

Why would anybody do that? There's nothing wrong with you.

[faintwaves]

...well, he's my cousin. Only we're not really cousins because I was adopted.

[notapigeon]

That's complicated.

[faintwaves]

Yes. It is.

I've been scared to talk to him since this whole thing started.

[notapigeon]

But you're partners in the project, aren't you?

[faintwaves]

I'm really good at hiding.

[notapigeon]

Hiding isn't going to get things done.

[faintwaves]

It's okay! I've made the egg a nice little home in my robes.

[notapigeon]

Did you name your egg?

[i_bullieve_i_can_fly]

uHH, wHY?
i MEAN, wHO IS YOUR PARTNER?
i CAN'T REMEMBER THE LIST,
dID THEY, dO SOMETHING AWFUL,
lIKE, uH, cRACK THE EGG?

[faintwaves]

...Zuko.

[i_bullieve_i_can_fly]

oH,

i'M SORRY, }:(

[faintwaves]

I wish we could have been partners, Tavros!

[sonofamelonlord]

[ink drops]

... I don't bite, you know.

[faintwaves]

But you don't want me around. I know you don't.

[sonofamelonlord]

Look... Whatever I feel about you doesn't matter right now. This is something I signed up for, and I'd like to do what I was asked for. And I need you around for that.

So... Please stop hiding.

[faintwaves]

[...Well in retrospect, causing someone to fail an assignment definitely isn't nice at all. Especially not when they're family (sort of).]

[.........However, the idea that "Thalassa" might miss her "daddy" is completely bizarre in the first place and implies far too many unsettling things.]


I'm...not hiding, really. I'm up in the clock tower.

[sonofamelonlord]

Ok. I'll... Go meet you then.

[faintwaves]

I'll wait.

[Really. She won't change places or find something to hide behind, just sit and wait.]

[sonofamelonlord]

[Zuko closed his journal and made his way out of the dorm.

Once he was at the top of the tower, he gave the room a quick look over, trying to see Xion.]

Xion?

[faintwaves]

...Hi, Zuko.

[There's Xion holding up the egg.]

Here's Thalassa.

[sonofamelonlord]

You named it?

[faintwaves]

Named her. She's a girl.

...Thalassas are seashells from back home.