seven.

[al_malik]

[Nephthys was damn good at holding grudges. Two weeks in and she still jumped him like the pills were served yesterday. Not a God now but a human, he was seeing a steady trend of him forgetting little faults of hers that irritated him. Recent things. He still had their Egyptian years burned in his memory. But that was a very different sort of thing. At any rate, it seemed like he forgave her for blowing him off, but she was making good on her threat of staying busy (you know, except to pick a fight over the way he worded things on the community). Was he walking on eggshells? Seemed so. It occurred to him the other day that their making a fight out of everything could potentially be pissing Ra off. Not only did Ra have to live with it, he was seeing it on his phone, on the community. Godfather had no break. And things were harder to tell with him because the man was so passive aggressive. Now, Set had no idea whether Sokar's proposal to Sekhmet was based on fact or rumor or a prank by the double. But what he did know was that Ra was on the warpath to burn any possibility of marriage for that bastard by any means.

And for him, it ultimately boiled down to this: Set was a shitty husband, but hey. He's a husband. And he recognized that it was time to make peace with the wife. He put aside his assignments and spent Sunday morning browsing through malls in the city. Having no intention of writing an apology himself, he bought a card that basically had the right idea written down. However, it came attached with a giant stuffed puppy. He hoped that she'd be kind enough to appreciate the embarrassment this stupid thing brought on him as he towed it around town. When he got home, he left it on her pillow and finally left for work.]