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shellphones2025-01-09 09:02 pm
empyrean_mirror) wrote in shellphones2025-01-09 09:02 pm
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Type: Video
Sender ID: paradisea (Kaveh)
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Subject: !!!
Warnings: ridiculous spousal bragging
[The camera feed opens up to stunning view of an island. The cameraperson is standing near a grotto into which a relatively short waterfall feeds, creating a glittering mist over the pond. It pans, in a hand too excited to hold it entirely steady, over the lush greenery, showing a gently rolling hill that flattens out into a plain. Mehrak can be seen zipping about, scanning the area and placing markers about the island, though what they'll become is anyone's guess.]
Look at this.
[Kaveh's voice is shaking with pure unadulterated glee and maybe a little bit of tears, but he turns the camera until he finds his target--Alhaitham, a distance away, who seems to be communicating something to Mehrak.]
This ridiculous man bought me an island.
[Has your spouse bought you a whole-ass island? no? then kaveh's got the superior husband.]
Sender ID: paradisea (Kaveh)
To: Public
Subject: !!!
Warnings: ridiculous spousal bragging
[The camera feed opens up to stunning view of an island. The cameraperson is standing near a grotto into which a relatively short waterfall feeds, creating a glittering mist over the pond. It pans, in a hand too excited to hold it entirely steady, over the lush greenery, showing a gently rolling hill that flattens out into a plain. Mehrak can be seen zipping about, scanning the area and placing markers about the island, though what they'll become is anyone's guess.]
Look at this.
[Kaveh's voice is shaking with pure unadulterated glee and maybe a little bit of tears, but he turns the camera until he finds his target--Alhaitham, a distance away, who seems to be communicating something to Mehrak.]
This ridiculous man bought me an island.
[Has your spouse bought you a whole-ass island? no? then kaveh's got the superior husband.]
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You're going to wear yourself out even before we can truly celebrate. [He huffs out, teasing, but there's no hiding the warmth that gleams in his eyes and the pride glowing on his face. Obviously he's going to take some pride in seeing how much joy he's given Kaveh with this gift. His husband's happiness has always been his own, too.]
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[Kaveh laughs, not even pretending to be irritated, radiant and happy. An island...an island to design a home on freely...something tailor made to the two of them. And this place is beautiful. he already has ideas for how to use that grotto and waterfall.]
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I suppose that depends if I'm allowed to take those words as permission.
[The fondness in his own expression is very much there, but there's a certain gleam in his eye that suggests of something More.]
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[Kaveh considers this with a gleam in his own eyes, deeply contemplating.]
Let me finish surveying first before you throw my back out, Haitham.
[That...sounds like a promise, doesn't it.]
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[Which of course is part of the reason why Alhaitham made the effort to do this in the first place. A whole island to themselves means all the privacy they could ever ask for.
But with that being said, he doesn't get as pushy as he might have been in other scenarios, only busying himself with running a hand up and down his husband's back while the other is busy contemplating. When Kaveh does eventually answer, Alhaitham only takes a second to consider the words before he lets out an agreeing hum.]
Take as long as you need. [He says, feeling exceptionally giving. And if that wasn't enough, he uses his same hand to go to grab onto one of Kaveh's own, bringing it up so that he can plant a kiss to the back of it, smiling afterwards.]
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[Kaveh smiles, a faint flush on his cheeks, but he'll pull himself to his feet and Alhaitham up with him, before turning.]
Mehrak can handle this area, so let's see what's up at the top of the hill.
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He turns his attention back to Kaveh when the architect speaks, nodding in agreement to the suggestion. He'd gone up there too, of course, when he was first surveying this place, but it has been a while, so maybe something might have changed in the time since.
Decision made, Alhaitham waits for Kaveh to go first before moving himself, though he soon comes to fall in step with his husband, catching his hand once more to entwine their fingers together.]
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Ahhh, maybe I should come back in the morning...I want to see how the sun rises here before I start drawing...
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He keeps their hands tangled together as they make their way up to the top, clearly content even with the way Kaveh keeps stopping to look around. There's nothing about that for him to be annoyed about, especially when its because of Kaveh being so obviously excited. He's always enjoyed seeing his senior being so completely in his element.]
You're free to come here whenever you want. [He says after Kaveh's musing to himself.] That's typically one of the benefits of being the owner of this place.
[Yeah so he's being a little sassy here, but you know. He just can't help it.]
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[Kaveh snorts a bit, but he falls quiet, leaning into Alhaitham as he looks out over the view. He has so many ideas, he can hardly wait to put them to work...]
...It's not the same as going home. But I'll make it feel as close as I can.
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... [He's quiet for a while as he looks at the view himself, Kaveh's promise still echoing in the air. There's no denying the fact that one of the other reasons he'd picked this place was because all the greenery reminded him of Sumeru, and the truth is that he misses it just as much as Kaveh. His husband's presence makes being here far more bearable... but they can both agree that it's still not the same as being home.]
...Mmn. [He finally breaks his silence with a hum, giving Kaveh's hip a squeeze as he exhales and turns, looking at Kaveh—his husband, his mirror, his better half—with all the love and affection he's ever felt in that one, single moment.] I know you will.
[Because, in spite of that, despite everything... home may be back in Teyvat, in Sumeru, in the city where his house is, but it is also here, with Kaveh, in this place where they did not choose to come. But they have chosen each other, and perhaps in the end that is what matters the most.]
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[Kaveh laughs a bit, pressing his temple against Alhaitham's. The home in Sumeru city...it's comfortable, and he knows Alhaitham isn't likely to want to change it. But with proper renovations...that building was never meant to be a residence, but Kaveh could fix it...
...wouldn't that be nice? He'll build a house here, designed for their lives here, but he'll dream about making them a home made just for them in Sumeru City...]
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[Teyvat has a lot of things, but in the end it is still just one world. This place, however, is far more than that. And there are good things about it as well as bad, but the important thing is that they are managing, the best that they can.
He gives Kaveh's hand a squeeze, eyes looking across the horizon as he feels the warmth of the sun, and of his husband next to him. It's times like these where its almost hard to remember that they were little more than estranged strangers to each other not so long ago—a year is not that long of a time, after all. But what they've managed to build here, together and for each other... he knows he will fight with everything he has to keep it, gods or powers above be damned. He will fight destiny and fate itself if he has to, if that is what it takes to keep these memories that he now has.]
Kaveh. [He murmurs, after a long period of silence, his eyes still fixed on the horizon that's spread beyond them. And regardless of if his senior does turn around to look at him, he continues on speaking.] I love you.
[There are many other things he can tack to that, countless declarations and feelings and everything else that all the words of Teyvat and even other worlds will not be enough to express entirely. So he will stick with those three words that Kaveh knows best, the words that he knows his senior had once waited so patiently for him to say—and he will say it again and again, as many times as it takes, until everything that he wants to impart is finally understood in their entirety.]
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[Kaveh responds to it easily now, eyes bright and shining with it, and he tugs gently at his husband's hand to pull it up to his lips, pressing a kiss right along the rings on their fingers.
It occurs to him that this time last year, he'd been moving them into the house on Eltrut, still in denial of what Alhaitham's presence meant to him. Now...he'll build them a home, for just the two of them, to serve until they're returned where they belong.]
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It's almost strange to think now how not so very long ago things were so vastly different between them, when they were still split apart by an endless chasm that neither of them seemed to know how to cross. But that distance is no longer there, and he wakes up everyday now with Kaveh's warmth in his arms and his love in his chest. The only thing better than that is being able to do it back in the place where they truly belong... but until then this, too, is good enough for him.
He reaches over to take Kaveh's other hand in turn, bringing it up to his own lips so that he can also plant a kiss over the rings that his senior wears, returning the gesture with his own. Even if Kaveh already knows it Alhaitham will continue to say the things that he wants to express. Much like how the sky is blue and the grass is green, he will always love Kaveh until his very last breath.]