You open the door to the palace and sitting inside is a very bemused looking young man in the middle of wrapping his hand. He's dressed for working out, in loose simple clothing, and looks entirely too comfortable considering he's in what's supposed to be your new horrible gaudy mansion.
He looks at you, raises an eyebrow, and then his eyes go wide. It takes you a moment to realize why, because he looks different when he's not covered in golden artifacts with the sun rising all around him, and when your vision isn't blurry from pain and blood.
It's him.
He opens his mouth to say something, but you don't hear whatever it is because you slam the door shut and hold it shut as you turn to Azure Lily. You're trying to think of a way to phrase this that isn't accusatory, and it is very hard, so you just kind of stare accusingly at her. She smiles at you.
The door wiggles and you hear a muffled hey!! on the other side of it, which you of course disregard because this isn't about him right now, this is about how Azure Lily has played a cruel trick on you on your first day in Meru.
"There's a Solar in my home," you say, slowly. The door wiggles more, and you invest your second arm in keeping it closed. The voice on the other side wails heeeeey!!!! again, because apparently he doesn't know when a conversation doesn't involve him. Solars are like that.
"Well, it's also his home," she tells you happily. "Your previous incarnations left a great deal of extremely specific legal paperwork that made it impossible to reassign this home to a senior member of the Deliberative. It was your marital home, and it, like all other properties you've inherited, is a fifty-fifty share with the reincarnation of your previous wife. That's, ah, the young man you've temporarily captured, that is."
"Oh, I'll donate it all. I'll go live in the woods."
"You did inherit several acres of woodlands in the East, although it is also co-owned by…"
And then the door gets yanked off its hinges inward and you go flying along with it, balance instantly and irrevocably lost, and that idiot is the one who catches you almost by accident, like it was just a reflex. You're not surprised that he doesn't have to put any effort into holding you, but you absolutely resent it.
"Um, hi," he says. "Please don't slap me again."
You punch him. Well, you punch at him. He dodges and drops you, and you spring to your feet. Azure Lily clears her throat delicately to interrupt your counterattack.
"I'll leave you two to get settled," she says, smiling.
3. Oh My God They Were Roommates
He looks at you, raises an eyebrow, and then his eyes go wide. It takes you a moment to realize why, because he looks different when he's not covered in golden artifacts with the sun rising all around him, and when your vision isn't blurry from pain and blood.
It's him.
He opens his mouth to say something, but you don't hear whatever it is because you slam the door shut and hold it shut as you turn to Azure Lily. You're trying to think of a way to phrase this that isn't accusatory, and it is very hard, so you just kind of stare accusingly at her. She smiles at you.
The door wiggles and you hear a muffled hey!! on the other side of it, which you of course disregard because this isn't about him right now, this is about how Azure Lily has played a cruel trick on you on your first day in Meru.
"There's a Solar in my home," you say, slowly. The door wiggles more, and you invest your second arm in keeping it closed. The voice on the other side wails heeeeey!!!! again, because apparently he doesn't know when a conversation doesn't involve him. Solars are like that.
"Well, it's also his home," she tells you happily. "Your previous incarnations left a great deal of extremely specific legal paperwork that made it impossible to reassign this home to a senior member of the Deliberative. It was your marital home, and it, like all other properties you've inherited, is a fifty-fifty share with the reincarnation of your previous wife. That's, ah, the young man you've temporarily captured, that is."
"Oh, I'll donate it all. I'll go live in the woods."
"You did inherit several acres of woodlands in the East, although it is also co-owned by…"
And then the door gets yanked off its hinges inward and you go flying along with it, balance instantly and irrevocably lost, and that idiot is the one who catches you almost by accident, like it was just a reflex. You're not surprised that he doesn't have to put any effort into holding you, but you absolutely resent it.
"Um, hi," he says. "Please don't slap me again."
You punch him. Well, you punch at him. He dodges and drops you, and you spring to your feet. Azure Lily clears her throat delicately to interrupt your counterattack.
"I'll leave you two to get settled," she says, smiling.