>>6074465>>6074489>>6074507>>6074641Your romantic situation is, put rather mildly, complicated at the moment. But then, what else is new?
When you were young, your confusing mix of envy, suspicion, and affection for Izirina Henzler eventually gave way to a somewhat-unconventional romance, only for an impulsive act of dangerous selfishness to stall that progress. It was during that time that yet you first found another love: Costella Fanucci, a former patient of yours whom you cured of a deformative mutagenic plague. In the years since, you reconciled these competing affections—a process made easier by Costella’s own attraction to members of her own sex, and Izirina’s willingness to volunteer for experimental modifications of her mind, body and spirit.
But that didn’t mean things became EASY.
Competing priorities have extended your courtship with both women far beyond the local norm. Between your various missions of peacekeeping and metaphysical exploration, the persistent machinations of Costella’s well-heeled ex-paramour, and the inherent drama of precarious polyamory, you’ve encountered delay after delay in ‘making an honest woman’ out of either of the two women who have been sharing your bed for years now…
And it seems that isn’t about to end just yet.
“It’s just… I really want my mother to be there,” you admit.
Izirina frowns. Before the rather blunt mage-girl can think better of it, she asks: “Do you really think that’s a possibility?”
“Iz!” Costella gasps.
“No, that’s a fair point.” You make this admission with some annoyance, but it’s not really directed at Izirina. “I can’t know for sure. But… there’s a possibility. If these negotiations go well, and we can make the Sylvan delegation see reason…”
You’re being stupidly optimistic, you realize. It wasn’t so long ago that the Council of Elders who reigns from the Sylvan capital of Iternagreyn had attempted to steal your life’s work, and to kidnap Izirina. Form their last correspondence, it’s abundantly clear that they still consider Izzy and yourself a very real threat to the future. This is most probably because of the prophecies of the elven ‘minasien’ sage, Nenaias, who predicted that and elven-blooded descendant of Izirina Henzler would one day reclaim her birthright as the heir to Hawksong’s collapsed House of Yosef, and eventually give rise to a world-conquering tyrant.
(It might also be because your known associates include a lizardman who has taken up the sinister mantle of Dragon King, an outcast elven werewolf, and at least a couple demonic entities, because you smuggled a monstrous invader out of captivity in their realm, because you have been sharing the secrets of the Moon Goddesses with human laypersons, or because you responded to that kidnapping attempt by lethally ‘disappearing’ the squad they sent… But those actions all have very good explanations, honestly!)
