Kraken Campfire, Later Tuesday Night

[the_merriest]

Rikku hoped it wasn't too dark that people wouldn't be able to see that she now had purple hair.

Aly was on her short list of Favorite Teachers Ever.

She hoped the Kraken bathroom had recovered from any possible dye-related mishaps.

Rikku sat in front of the campfire, bouncing to herself. Ready to chat the ear off anybody and everybody who dropped by.



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[notqueenyet.livejournal.com]

"I've surmised as much," she said dryly. "Peter Pevensie is twice my age at home."

[the_merriest]

"Oh!" Rikku gasped. "The - Peter in my cabin, who you said's a king?" She had forgotten to ask him about that. "Whoa."

"Okay, uh. The thing is? Bayla is ... m-my daughter. Who may or may not happen and all that because it was some weird alternate reality thing, but ... she was insane and didn't listen to anybody and so hyper and ..." Rikku smiled a bit sadly. "And I miss her, sometimes."

[notqueenyet.livejournal.com]

Aravis stared. "...she's from your future, you think?" she said, piecing things together. "As I am from Peter's. That makes sense." She smiled. "She sounds as though she takes after her mother."

[the_merriest]

Rikku laughed, blushing. "She's ... yeah. A possible future, but not a definite one, is how they said it? She might not happen. But she might. And she does take after me a lot. And her f-father." There is facepalming here, and even more blushing. "Who I'd been dating all of two months at the time."

[notqueenyet.livejournal.com]

"...Jude," Aravis remembered. "He asked me to join the mutiny. That's...interesting. Granted, I had never met my betrothed when I learned of the marriage, but that's a marginally different situation."

Her eyes went wide. "What does 'dating' mean? I have to assume it has little to do with placing things in order of sequence, and I know it has nothing to do with fruit."

She paused. "Or is this a question best suited for our teatime?"

[the_merriest]

"Yeah! That's him." Rikku smiled, a bit dorkily. "He's really great."

"Oh! No, it's more ... okay, yeah, it's a teatime thing? But the quick version is ... people really don't get married right away here. And they marry for love, and that's usually when you're older, but you kinda meet people and think, I want to get to know them better, like, romantically?" She hoped she was explaining this right. "So you go out on a date, like, you go see movies, or you have dinner together, and you kinda decide if you want to be involved like that. And maybe one day that means you'll get married, but maybe you'll split up way before that. There are levels to how serious you are about it."

[notqueenyet.livejournal.com]

Aravis smiled almost vapidly. "Then it's courting. But less complicated. Good."

[the_merriest]

Rikku laughed, blushing. "Sometimes I think it's more complicated. Less rules, so you'd think it's easier, right? But that's the whole problem. I mean, if you think it's one thing and someone thinks it's something else ... like, what if you're with someone and then they go, oh, hey, I'm dating that person, too? Or if one of you wants, uh, stuff that really does go in teatime, and the other doesn't, and ... you can really get hurt." She shrugged. "It's terrifying, putting your heart out there."