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“Oh!” Arthur says immediately, and crouches down to look at Quincy’s feet and find out if they need to pull any glass out. “Doesn’t that hurt?!”

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Arthur sleeps deep and solid and well, until there’s some kind of jostling, and badly muffled giggling, and someone poking him in the shoulder. 

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“He’s not nearly as volatile as I would’ve expected from someone who’s supposedly violently insane,” Arthur observes, thinking back to his interactions so far with Radu. “I was all ‘I’m not letting you bullshit me’ with him earlier, too, and the only time he got offended was when I accidentally suggested he might kill someone he drinks from… and even then, he was offended, not aggressive.”

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Arthur realises he’s being carried like a little kid, which is embarrassing, but also, he’s really not in the mood to try walking anywhere else. 

And Art is big and warm. 

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“I agree. He’s a weirdo.”

Yeah, good that Arthur agrees with him there, but John still waits until that fucking fae is out of sight before he carefully lowers the hammer on his gun. Grunts a: “Fucking weirdo,” then slings the rifle back over his shoulder, gives Quincy a look. 

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Arthur sighs again. “Hours is still fast. And… you know how it is. If something looks too good to be true, that’s because it is. If people can take advantage of you and screw you over, they usually do. And powerful, older men romancing younger women is dangerous for the women at best, and then we’re talking about a vampire and a dhampir, and vampires are supposed to have huge prejudices against dhampirs… So… so I wish we hadn’t done the ritual. And maybe, just maybe, I was wrong about Radu. But I really don’t know how I could’ve gotten any other idea…”

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“Mother is with him. I lost my sister, I don’t want to lose my mother, too. Harker hurt her, how much worse could a vampire hurt her?”

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“So… it’s all about the drac? You said something like that before, I think, but… how does it work? What actually happened? It’s like suddenly you’re besties?”

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Previously: Obsidian: Ash and Moonbeams – Chapter 29

Having observed the exchange and yet again seeing what his beloved appreciates in the man, Radu does let his amusement show when he rises to his feet after having been instructed to do so, by a grunt that certainly is made extra rumbly and deep for his benefit, and nothing more than a chin wag towards the door.

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Previously: Obsidian: Ash and Moonbeams – Chapter 28

“Since when are you related to sugar lips? She said pretty much the same thing, especially because even if she kicks Vlad out of his coffin and sends him over, that’s at least ten minutes before backup is here.” 

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