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Subject: Fireworks + Book Club
Warnings: Totally absolutely completely legal extracurricular activities

Given current events, I've had a few projects I've been pondering. I don't suppose anyone would be interested in making handmade fireworks? With precautions taken, of course, these are just for fun at festivals.

While I'm on the subject, how many of you are familiar with cameras, or other ways to take pictures, in your own worlds? Would you mind telling me much about them.

Ah, and one more thing. I've been considering getting some people together for a research project, of a sort. Or I suppose, something like a study group and a book club. I'd like to discuss it in person, though, so please feel free to drop by the Cafe.

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[Alhaitham takes a while more, mostly because he'd ended up reading all the way to the end of the current chapter before deeming that a good stopping point for now. He marks that out and puts the book to the side for later before he turns and press a kiss to his husband's temple without any preamble.

He's always appreciated the other's company, but the whole thing with the brands has him appreciating Kaveh even more. Had he been on the Corsairs when this all happened he would have easily jumped over without thinking twice, if he hadn't already done so earlier. The idea of having to be separated from Kaveh due to some inane grouping that they're not even involved in would have never sat right with him from the get go.]

[It's because of that, that Kaveh is so sympathetic to the couples who haven't been so fortunate. He suspects changing armadas won't be an easy task in the current state of affairs, and moreso for those who have more serious ethical qualms about one side or the other.

Still, that's why he's doing this in the first place, tipping his head up into his husband's face with a faint smile as he stretches his legs out more comfortably.]

Anything interesting?

[Alhaitham hums approvingly to the way Kaveh tips his head up, clearly favorable to this action, but he doesn't linger for too long since he doesn't want to be too much of a distraction right now. That'll be for later.]

Mmn, not at the moment. [He responds after finally pulling his face back, though with his other hand free it means he can reach over and tuck back the strands of Kaveh's hair that'd fallen over his face.] Most of it has been nothing more than biased recounts of general events.

I suppose it'd be too easy if the answer was convenient to find.

[Kaveh smiles a little wryly.] That's what I aim to ask people to be looking for. Biased the accounts might be, they're the accounts we have...and I have a suspicion a solution to this might be in parallel to other long-term solutions.

[Alhaitham hums again there—he'd more or less suspected as much, considering things as they are right now.]

If none of the Paladin-biased texts prove effective I'll look into the ones I have from Nogard. [Because what better way to see the shortcomings of one side by looking through another's viewpoint—in this case, the Corsairs.]

...We could probably ask Khalid and G'raha to get more, if the ones you have don't prove any use.

[The implication being that they can already get and share what they can find in the conservatory.]

Edited 2025-04-13 16:52 (UTC)

[...it admittedly takes a second for him to remember who Khalid is, though it doesn't really matter in the bigger picture, so he just hums one more time.]

Any extra information will be useful, regardless.

[And hey they're on Eltrut so neutrality is the name of the game. Or something like that, anyway.]

[Alhaitham...]

That's my hope, anyway. What people do with the information is up to them--I know what we're going to do with it, anyway.

[Neutrality, or plausible deniability, at least.]

[What its not his fault that his hyperfiltration is his husband.]

Hmm. And what, exactly, are we going to do with it?

[I mean he already knows ~~even if I don't~~ so the question is kind of moot but he wants to hear it anyway. So it can be on record between them.]

Make copies and disseminate them among the Riftfarers.

[Kaveh makes a big stretch and then tucks himself closer into Alhaitham's side. It's sunny out, today, and he's been working hard...]

The more of us search for the answers to our current problem, the more we may stumble closer to an answer to the rifts. I can't help but feel both are deeply rooted into the history of this world. Why should any of that be restricted information?

Edited 2025-04-13 17:10 (UTC)

[Well if that's what Kaveh wants to do then Alhaitham is more than happy to oblige—in more ways than one.

But first he'll turn to lie on his side instead so that he now drapes his arm over Kaveh instead, the other now tucked in the space between them.]

Most of their history isn't restricted, but I see your point. [There are segments of it which are, since they're more sensitive to the armadas themselves—though the Paladins are certainly more uppity about it compared to the Corsairs.]

It isn't restricted currently. Their opinions on who gets to access any of it might start changing.

[Kaveh is still sharp-tongued, his opinion on that particular idea crystal clear, even as he settles himself good and cozy against his husband. They're not that busy...just a little nap won't hurt...]

[Kaveh's response isn't surprising, and its not like Alhaitham doesn't agree too, though all he really does is to hum one more time as he too also goes to settle down comfortably. He twists around for a second just to make sure that both the book and the coffee are placed in a spot where they won't get upended, and once that's settled he's lying back down and pulling Kaveh in close, uncaring for the fact that they're basically canoodling in public. It's hardly the first time they've done this now, by this point.]

I'll make a trip to the Conservatory in the next few days. [He murmurs as one hand delves into his husband's hair, fingers combing through the strands.] Mehrak can come with me.

[It should be pretty obvious what he plans to do with that request.]

Mmm...let me finish the trackers tomorrow then, so we can put them on.

[It's less suspicious if they don't both turn up to the Conservatory at once, given how rarely Kaveh goes up to Elah, but that doesn't make Kaveh any less worried and anxious about it. At least Mehrak will be with him.]

Alright.

[He fully understands where Kaveh's worry comes from here, considering recent happenings, so he doesn't brush it aside like he might have done in other times. If anything, he does his best to be reassuring, by leaning in and pressing a kiss to the top of Kaveh's head, burying his nose into his hair afterwards as his arm slips down to wrap around his waist instead, holding him almost as close as he can do so.

Between the kidnapping and now the stuff with the brands, its only further fueled Alhaitham's desire to be close to his husband, and to relish every moment that he's allowed to touch and hold him close. Though he has never taken it for granted, everything has only made him want to hold on even tighter than before. Just as he promised, he'll never let Kaveh go—not now, and not ever.]

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