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[ It's about one in the morning, and when the device turns on, it illuminates a small, wooden drawer that only seems to have a few pairs of earrings and a set of dolls that look like stargathering blastiafreak holding hands.

And it would be another boring, accidental feed showing the inside of someone's desk drawer until the two dolls suddenly turn towards each other and

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[And Estelle watches the dolls that look like Tyr and Rita holding hands. With them clicking at the mouth, she can't help but let out a bit of a childish squee. The dolls, they know! She's just going to be suppressing giggles over here on this side of the video feed.]

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[ And Tyr can respond in the morning so he doesn't fall asleep on her. Estelle squeeing and giggling is definitely better than hearing Rita yell first thing in the morning, but it's still embarrassing. He looks away from the device and takes a little while to find the words he wants to say. ]

I don't know how it happened...

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Well, I think the City just knows!

[She’s still giggling away at that. Really, there’s no reason for them to be fighting it anymore if the City is starting to give them hints! Maybe it’s some silly curse happening today, however it’s a good curse if it means that it’s trying to tell Rita and Tyr something!]

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[ If Estelle wasn't so happy and nice in general, Tyr would really harsh right now.

...But since it's Estelle, he just turns indignant, face flushing. ] The City doesn't know anything!

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[Oh, oh, he’s blushing, that is so adorable! Of course, she’s not helping by embarrassing him, so perhaps it would be best to back off now… just a little bit.]

Why do you say that?

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[ Why does he need to explain this? ] Because it doesn't. [ And why can't he explain it? ] It's not like the City can actually think.

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But the deities can!

[That's it, the deities are in on this and want Tyr and Rita to be happy together. She doesn't like them all too well, but maybe they can be good... people... deities... whatever they are!]

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[ They are definitely not good anythings, and the twisted expression Tyr makes says as much. ]

Don't be ridiculous. They're probably trying to annoy Rita and me if they're responsible at all.

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[Well she doesn't entirely think they're good anythings either, but they can't be all too bad. Okay, so the curses are often less than fun, but they don't mean too much harm by them?]

Is it really just annoying? Perhaps they just have your best interests in mind.

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They make curses where people hurt each other; I doubt they ever have positive intentions... [ ...That feels harsh. ] The doll thing was probably just a coincidence, or Riou might have moved them around as a joke.

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Well, yes, that’s true… but!

[She doesn’t have a valid argument against that. The deities are rather mean at times, and if she could, she’d like a word with them if she could muster up the courage and actually know what to say to them.]

I still don’t think it was a coincidence or a joke.

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... [ He's not going to win this, is he? Sighing, he takes the subject off that. ]

Why do you want us to be like that so much? Rita cares about you even more than she cares about me, you know...

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Rita… cares a lot about you, I can tell. I have never really seen her so close to anyone.

[Estelle doesn’t even really take in the fact that Rita may care more about her than Tyr, but they’re both girls, so that’s understandable to her. They bond in that sense of being friends….]

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[ He glances away when she says that, biting the inside of his lip and feeling unsure if he should really believe that or not. He can't really deny that they both care about each other more than most people.

But when he thought back to some of the times Rita showed real emotion and let her guards down... ]

I could say the same about the two of you... It's obvious that you're one of the most important people to her.

[ The fact they're both girls? That shouldn't matter. They're both friends with Rita. ]

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Rita has done a lot for me, and I am so grateful for it, however , for one, we are both girls and two, I know we simply share the bond of friendship.

[Estelle still has that bit of naivety that girls cannot love one another like that, but even so, she doesn’t look at Rita that way. Rita’s her friend, a friend she would do almost anything for, but simply a friend and nothing more.

And when she looks and Tyr and Rita… they look like they would be so happy together.]

However, I am happy to know that she cares a lot for me.

[Even if Estelle already knows this fact, it’s still nice to hear.]

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[ He sighs quietly. She wasn't going to let up on them being a couple, but there was something nice about thinking of their friendship, even if she wasn't understanding what he was trying to say (possibly deliberately and stubbornly). ]

And I'm glad Rita cares about me, too... But she's my friend, regardless if she's a girl. [ And he knows she likes him. It's been months, but he doubts her feelings have changed any more than his have. ] Our genders have nothing to do with it.

[ Tyr's fairly sure they're both stubborn enough not to ever talk about it, but part of him wonders if Rita will ever bring up something other than friendship again. ]