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[mrsnose]

Hello - is everyone doing better today? The curse from yesterday reminded me a little of how dangerous the power of words can be when you've little to no idea that your words have power. Like me, I used to talk to hats.

I mean, I used to work in a hat shop, my family's hat shop, and when I entered as the new apprentice, I'd be left by myself for many nights, so I took to talking to hats. I'd tell a bonnet she'd marry into money, or another hat that she'd be as fresh as a spring rose - compliments like those - and I thought it was just a way of passing time. Until I started to realise that my predictions would come true - as if the hats were listening to my orders. It did grand for the business, but there are consequences to letting your mouth run.

Which is why...yesterday, when I got an inkling of what the curse could be like, I decided to stay quiet. For the best.

But that's all over today, so I get to congratulate Charlie and Merlin - that's a nice name, hmm - on their bravery and love for one another, and the celebration of their wedding. May your happiness last for a very long time.

Is this the first wedding taking place in the City? Or have there been others? [SHE'S JUST CURIOUS, HOWL, NO NEED TO TAKE HINTS OR ANYTHING.]

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[conesoldstober]

Doing something I little more declarative.

[mrsnose]

[A long pause.]

That's it? That's the Howl Jenkins seduction? If it's very important to you I won't object?

[conesoldstober]

Terribly. You know my fragile sense of self could never bear rejection from you.

[mrsnose]

How could you think I would reject you?

[conesoldstober]

You have many good reasons to.

[mrsnose]

And one big reason not to, which is the only one that counts.

[conesoldstober]

[He turns her hand over to kiss the inside of her palm.]

Which is?

[mrsnose]

That I would spend the rest of my life with you either way, you peacock of a man. Because I love you.

[Duh.]

[conesoldstober]

[Okay kissing you now, talk is boring kthnx]

[mrsnose]

[Yes, kissing is nice - but wait!] We've got -- mmff -- wedding...

[conesoldstober]

Is it urgent?

[mrsnose]

It's not something I can skip altogether, I gave Charlie my word.

[conesoldstober]

In which case I shall have to be the martyr and take a rain cheque on our current trajectory.

[mrsnose]

Not that I know what cheques with rain have to do with martyrdom, but yes, you will. [But she does give his nose a kiss.]

[conesoldstober]

[But of course he sneaks his hand around the back of her neck and turns it into another proper kiss because troll.]

[mrsnose]

[Troll in the dungeons!!! He only gets one more! One more - and one more after that. And she pulls away because things get heated up, because it's for the best and yes.]

I think - hmm - well that should do.