“I just…
Don’t want things to change for no reason,” she muttered into his shoulder. She
didn’t actually need the propping up from him, but it felt nice, so she kept
playing along. “You know, when we talked today? I mean, besides the fact that
we talked about death and resurrection and undead, it just was… Kinda nice to
talk to him, you know? Like nothing happened?”

“But things
happened,” Vax said softly. “And things will continue to happen. We could all
die when the next fucking dragon shows up here, and remember how that felt.”

“That is
such a mean argument,” she protested. “Oh, bye Grog. I guess.” Vex waved at
Grog as Vax led her out the room. Grog toasted her and went back to drinking.

“Yes, it’s
mean, but it’s also true,” Vax admitted, dragging her along. “Remember
Tiberius? That could be all of us in any moment.”

“Not as
well as you do,” she snorted and poked him in the side again. “And now I
instantly feel horrible. I’m drunk, don’t judge me. Also, really? He’s the
example? When we’re all in this shit just because of that time we all built a
pillow fort around Percy’s cold, dead body?”

“Is that
when you realized you are in love with him?” Vax asked in disbelief.

“I told the
fucking tree like a week before that, remember?” She now punched him in the
side now. “Keep up, man.”

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Plans are made and also fail, more drunken awkwardness happens, and people talk. A lot. Just not what they’re supposed to be talking about.

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