#great news for wisteria: that is the court of time's specialty lmaooooo

[babyitsmagic]

she blinks and the first thing that comes out of her mouth is, "i don't want to live there." which immediately makes her grimace. "wait, shit, hang on. not what i meant. just... give me a sec here, okay? also when my brain feels less... this. i'm going to have at least half a million follow-up questions." so much information in so little time and she's absolutely reeling from it and trying to piece it all together. "i don't know if i want to live there," she rephrases. "i know you said i could still visit my family but i also know how weird time gets and like... most of my family is immortal, but not all of it. not even all of my siblings. my sister ivy is adopted and i don't even know if she wants to find a way to become immortal or if she's taking more of a yolo approach to it all and none of that is the point. and, okay this is gonna sound way sadder than i mean it to, but just bear with me, i guess. i honestly don't know how much of my family would even miss me, because we're just stupidly huge and i'm not that close to most of them, 'cause serial killer is kind of a genetic trait in the family and when you're trying not to go down that path, you tend to avoid all the murder-happy family members which is like... half my siblings. like murder-happy or murder-neutral. i'm off-track again. my point is that i would still miss them. and gods, even if she wanted to come, i couldn't just bring ivy to the fae realm. she's practically human." she's spiraling. oh boy. she takes a breath. "sorry, sorry. i'm way ahead of myself. i... there would be a lot to think about. it's not a no, i just would... we would need to figure out a way for me to come back here without time getting totally fucked."

clover watches her carefully, doing her best to keep her expression neutral. is this too much? has she pushed wisteria away? she doesn’t know what she’ll do if she has, but she knows it won’t be anything even remotely good. the wall she’s put up melts away the second wisteria finally responds and her face lights up. gods, that is the most romantic thing she’s ever heard. she wants to just lean in and kiss her and never stop kissing her because wow, to be loved the way you love is great, but she knows she needs to come clean. “it’s more complicated than that, but i love that you would do that for me. and it’s very hard to come clean when all i want to do now is kiss you.” but she takes a deep breath and launches right into it, “so i know you know i’m fae and i’m actually from the fae realm and still live there, but i never told you that my parents are royal. my dad and his wife are king and queen of the court of time and my mom is a princess in the court of clover. i don’t expect you to know what those are, just know it’s fancy shit. my mom doesn’t live in her original court anymore, so we shouldn’t have anything to worry about there. and i don’t think my dad is going to give me the throne, probably for the same reason his grandfather didn’t give it to one of his kids or my dad’s cousins. that’s an entirely separate thing, though, and the point is there’s a very strong likelihood some political maneuvering will be needed eventually and the maneuvering will be me marrying a royal from a different court. and it could be anything from we need something official in the books for how friendly we’re being to this is the only thing stopping a war from breaking out. so varying levels of me taking it seriously are required. and i know it seems like it would be so easy to run away from it, but that’s never going to be an option. i wouldn’t do that to my parents. and i also do like the court and the things i do for the court and my family and friends there. so i can’t live here forever in the human world. i was sort of putting all my eggs in the you’d be so in love with me by the time you found out that you’d move to the fae realm with me so we could be together forever there basket, i think is the phrase you guys use here? and if you did, you could still visit your family and stuff, but you’d mostly be with me. and obviously i’d be married to someone else, but that’s honestly such a small thing. my dad’s married to someone else, doesn’t mean my parents aren’t ridiculously in love with each other. we could do that.”