>>5919321"Anyway, I figured you and Izzy must still be out here when neither of you came back to the Tower last night," Costella continued. "I just wanted to..."
She pauses, looking past you, and you follow her somewhat troubled gaze. There, you see Izirina emerging from the tent the two of you shared, tying off her constantly-billowing air-elemental hair and jamming it under her black, pointed wizard’s cap.
"O-Oh," Costella says. "Yeah, I guess, like... NEITHER of you came back, huh? I... Uh..."
She trails off, looking conflicted and even GUILTY.
“I was... I don’t want to intrude, but I was thinking about what you aid and... Uhh... Maybe we could go, like, get lunch and t-talk a bit about... You know... Like... The THING?”
(That’s one way to refer to a tremendously-unconventional three-party relationship, you suppose. You can’t blame her—you PROPOSED it, and even to you it’s a bit weird still.)
"Well," Costella continues, nervousness dissipating as she puzzles out the mealtime technicality, "I mean, it's early for lunch, I guess. Breakfast? Or... Brrr-unch? Yeah, let's call it, like, a 'brunch'!"
How do you respond?
>That’s a really good idea, actually; you will go to brunch with your girlfriend(s)(?) >You can’t right now—every day you spend in preparation is a day when the Prince Consort could be advancing his own villainous agenda; you need to go meet with Zith-Zi and ready to make your move with haste >Actually... You’re kind of suspicious about these strangers, foreign even to this fledgling community, who apparently took great interest in your fairy-rituals and now seem to be beelining for Hawksong >Write-in