#oh and sorry for calling windranger alleria

[aditublog]

They were walking over the square, looking at this and that, at the people and the wares for sale in the various stalls, grabbing a bite to eat, but mostly just strolling around.

Until Davion stopped at a stall and took a small green plushie. He turned it in his hands, then he showed it Alleria. “This is cute, isn’t it? It looks a little like you.” He held it beside her head and grinned.

Alleria frowned. Gondar watched the two. They were so gorgeous, he loved to watch them interacting with each other. Laughing with each other. They looked so straight, in the beginning it had been unnerving. It wasn’t anymore.

“It’s a bit green, don’t you think?”

“You are green.”

“My clothes are green. Neither my hair nor my skin is.” Alleria crossed her arms in front of her chest. Her clothes weren’t even completely green.

Davion lowered the plushie and snatched a kiss from Alleria. “Don’t play grumpy, the plushie is cute, you are cute, so there definitely is a resemblance.” He held the plushie out to Gondar. “What do you think?”

“Um...” Gondar didn’t know. He didn’t think the green creature looked like Alleria at all and he wasn’t sure if it was cute. Besides, he was still bewildered whenever either of the two included him in a conversation they were clearly having between each other.

Davion sighed dramatically. “Oh, I see.” He put the plushie away, then slung an arm around Alleria’s shoulders. “Then I won’t buy it.”

“Who’s playing grumpy now?” Alleria leaned up. Though she wasn’t small, Davion was quite a bit taller and she had to get on tiptoes to nuzzle at his neck.

Maybe Gondar should’ve been jealous about the ease with which they showed each other affection. But there was never a reason to. He could be as quiet as he was able to be, as invisible as possible, the two never forgot him.

The same now, as they sauntered away from the stall with the plushies, Davion still an arm around Alleria’s shoulders. But as soon as they reached him, they split, without even looking at each other, taking Gondar in the middle. Davion snatched a quick kiss from Gondar as well before he put an arm around his shoulders, while Alleria took his hand. They had started taking him in the middle whenever they did something together a while ago and he had never asked why. It was nice. Because it was normal, for them.

Gondar was sometimes uneasy when they could be seen by others, like now. He had never been open with his sexuality, he had been insulted for it far too often. Probably because he was an easy target, small and seemingly harmless, unlike Davion who was tall and powerful and a knight.

But it was so natural for Davion that Gondar didn’t want to hide. He wanted to be brave enough to walk arm in arm with him, on his other side Alleria. He wasn’t harmless, he had never been in danger and it was amazing to have them, to know how much he meant to them. To have them take care of him in this strange way of theirs.

Besides, he had seen the Anti-Mage and the Invoker earlier, together. Not holding hands but the way they had been leaning towards each other while talking had been very intimate. They were not uneasy to show their sexuality.

“Maybe we could find a plushie that looks like Gondar?” Alleria’s voice held amusement and when she saw Gondar’s slightly horrified expression, she laughed. And then she kissed him on the cheek. Easily, because they were about the same height.

Davion tugged on one of Gondar’s ears gently. “No. He is a plushie, I don’t need a plushie that looks like him.”

“And I’m not?” Mock indignation.

“You have no pelt, do you.”  

They kept bantering a little, back and forth, with Gondar in the middle. He remained silent, he wasn’t used to such a kind of conversation and he didn’t need to join it to feel good. To feel included.

Davion’s hand moved from Gondar’s shoulder to his lower back, but neither Alleria nor Davion stopped touching him while they strolled over the square and through the streets.