Hybrid Kingdom PSL

[no1likeme]

{ the “beach” episode }
for some more light-hearted/chaotic stuff happening at the hotel throughout the plot

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[patchworkgod]

[This is definitely the most fun that any non-family residents of the hotel have ever seen Osiris have. He bursts out laughing anew when Emmanuel strides calmly out of the pool like a cat trying to hide the fact that it just did something undignified, and it takes all of his restraint to keep from throwing his arms around Emmanuel in an embrace of pure, childlike affection.]

I'm so sorry... but doesn't this mean... [Realization hits and Osiris is almost giggling at this point.] ... that now you'll have to stay out here until your clothing dries?

[theurgie]

(( Blink. Blink blink blink. ))

Why? I'm capable of walking to my room.

(( Dripping, soaking wet through the hotel. ))

[patchworkgod]

Like that? You can't! At least wring out your clothes a little, and - oh, your shoes -

[Yeah, they're well and truly waterlogged. Even barefoot would be better.]

- I'll replace those for you. Even if you did ask me to, I'm still the one who ruined tem.

[theurgie]

(( How dare he be so considerate? It actually stops Emmanuel in his tracks. He knows Osiris is a kind soul, but something so mundane as offering to replace his shoes... Why is that the thing that strikes him? ))

You don't have to do that.

[patchworkgod]

I know, but I'd like to.

[Osiris also hands over the towel he brought out with him, since he didn't make it into the pool.]

Just dry yourself off a little, will you? I hate to think of the smell in their carpets.

[theurgie]

(( Well, if Osiris insists, he's not going to fight him on his generosity. He takes the towel and offers a subtle smile. ))

Who am I to deny you anything you want?

[patchworkgod]

[They really are putting on a show here. Osiris is half surprised that Lucas hasn't shown up to lecture them yet, the way they're giving off great billowing clouds of adoration for one another. Emmanuel's sweet little remark brings another broad smile to Osiris's face that he tries to smother by biting the backs of his lips, but there's just no way to hide how much he's swooning.]

I didn't know I had such power over you.

[theurgie]

(( Don't even think that! He may appear in a tornado of floating feathers to accuse them!

Unfortunately, Emmanuel looks at Osiris with such earnestness. ))

Didn't you? Perhaps I should've kept that secret.

[patchworkgod]

[Osiris wants to kiss Emmanuel so badly all of a sudden. So badly. That earnest look makes his heart feel like fruit hanging from a tree branch at the height of its ripeness, almost too heavy to bear and ready to fall and explode with sweetness at any moment. God, Osiris is dying to kiss him.

He's usually better at keeping a lid on this feeling until he's alone and free to let off some steam. So this is how it feels when the ache takes over without warning, huh...]

I fear you could just as easily turn any command you didn't like right back on me. Your own power is at least equal to mine.