#the preview is SFW don't worry <3 but the fic itself. UHHHH

[blorbologist]

If you need a label

[E / 1.6k / TLOVM s3 spoilers / Missing Scene]

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“I’ll be up for a bit,” she’d said. 

A bit, when tired sunlight had not yet found the strength to flare into a proper sunset. From her windows she watched it muster into a flush, then a brilliant red, and collapse into cool blues.

Giddy with anticipation, Vex lit some candles. And fed Trinket. And took off her armor, and considered her options for bedclothes, and debated between two nightgowns before settling on one. 

How bad was human night vision, again? With a robe she found, Vex slipped into the hall and found the cabinets supplying their guest rooms. She returned with an armful of candles and hoped Percival would be by before they began to drool wax all over the surfaces she’d scattered them over. 

And so Vex unbraided her hair. And waited by the door. And sat at the desk. And posed herself artfully on the bed. And the candles burned lower, and lower, and lower.

It’s been more than a bit, more time than can be considered casual. 

She’s still up, feeling like she’s somehow run out of time.

Have you ever seen mayflies swarm? For a day or two, the sun is filtered through millions of glittering wings, the summer heat heavy with desperation. And then heavy with their bodies as they die. That buzzing, almost loud energy that fuelled her carefully pitched comment is now a twitchy weight in the pit of her stomach. 

There’s one last little thought fluttering around in there. A painful one - Vex squashes it firmly.

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