Four knitted scarves

[grimmdark]

916 Bilko Boulevard, Accidental Phonecall. Unfiltered. Open to housemates

*the phone picks up mid-conversation, as if it's been knocked off the hook by clumsy teenagers Rose's voice comes from not too far.*

I still cannot believe we are doing this. Enjoyable as it might be, I must admit I still have some reservations about it.

Rose, I assure

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[dreambubbly]

Uhh, Kanaya? Your audio device is off its hook and I fink you might have told the town somefin you didn't want to about your relationship with Rose...

[chastesaw]

No, Feferi. There was nothing remotely concerning my friendship with Rose Lalonde other than that she is willing to indulge me in my hobbies and can we please say no more of it? Say, for an amount of time including but not limited to the remainder of our natural lifespans?

[dreambubbly]

It's okay, Kanaya! I mean, we all have our flushcrushes. I just didn't fink you reely intended to tell the whole ocean that you and Rose were, whale, yeah. I'll leave you to it.

[chastesaw]

*And Kanaya makes a strangely strangled noise.* I--

That's not--

There isn't--

Feferi, I assure you you are gravely misunderstanding the situation.

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[dreambubbly]

Kanaya. It doesn't take a dozen eyes to see that you two have been flushed for each other for a while now. At least since Hiveapproaching, if not before.

Honestly, I'm happy for you two. I'm really happy. I told Rose this, but it doesn't matter that you're a troll and she's a human. If you make each other happy, what else matters?

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[chastesaw]

*Somebody is terribly green-faced over here.* I can't say for certain where you've been receiving your information, Feferi, but I can promise you that you are certainly well wide of the mark in your guessing, and that I consider Rose Lalonde far too vexing to ever consider developing flushed inclinations in her direction. And she is a human, and despite your words that would be weird.

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[dreambubbly]

...I didn't get it from anywhere other than seeing how you two interact. It's a dead ringer for matespritship only with - and no offense to Rose - a flighty broad involved.

...besides, stranger things have happened around this fishbowl.

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[chastesaw]

She is an exceptionally flighty broad, only she isn't all the time, or even a plurality of the time other than the moments which would certainly suffice as flightiness.

But that is irrelevant and once again I must insist that any perception of feelings to that end on either one of our parts must certainly be a misinterpretation of events. And events at Hiveapproaching were only due to sufficient duress and the liberal application of human panfuddling nectars.

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[dreambubbly]

Oh, would you quit glubbing swimming in the sea of denial, Kanaya? Okay. There were the human panfuddling nectars involved at Hiveapproaching and some things may have happened due to that.

But I'm not even talking about that, anyway. It's the rest of the time I'm glubbing about.

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[chastesaw]

I am not in the sea of denial because there is little to be in denial about. Given the truism that there is nothing worth denying, your claim seems utterly nonsensical in retrospect.

But I will humor your claims nonetheless and ask you what, exactly, do you mean?

[grimmdark]

Nothing has been revealed, because there was nothing to be revealed. Define this relationship right now. What sort of troll meaning does it hold?

[She's totally contradicting herself but shh]

[dreambubbly]

...sounds like a couple of matesprits, or at least flushcrushes, have been doing things that matesprits and flushcrushes would do. I'm not going to ask about the details.

[grimmdark]

Mate...crushes...

I have no idea of what you are talking about.

[The blush can be felt from the other side of the line.]

[dreambubbly]

In human language, it means boyfriend/girlfriend or someone you have those feelings towards. It's okay! Nothing wrong with it at all. I think finding someone you care about that towards is a wonderful thing.

[Oblivious Fef is oblivious, clearly excited about the prospect. She ships it.]

[grimmdark]

Feelings for Kanaya...the idea is, and this might strike your fancy, alien to me. Can it even be accomplished? It's not like she's human anymore.

[She was cute when she was human. Well, Rose can't deny she has looked at Kanaya any differently since then. Well crap.]

I think you might be looking too much into it though.

[dreambubbly]

I don't see why not. I mean, feelings don't discriminate between folks. They just kind of happen. So...I guess I'm telling you that if you feel that way, don't let anyone or anything stop you from being happy.