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Gryphon
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Jul-16-13, 00:59 AM (EDT) |
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"(teaser 2) S5M4 Try, Try Again"
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Probably the last of these; there's just not that much in this one that lends itself to the format. "You know," Utena mused to Corwin as the three stood on the balcony, "I'm starting to wonder about you." Corwin blinked. "... I beg your pardon?" he said. "Well, look," said Utena, her tone of voice - slightly at odds with her opening remark - easy and equable. "You remember the first time we went to Asgard?" Corwin knew this question was too preposterous to be anything but rhetorical, so he just nodded and let her get on with her point. "I asked you if all the women you knew were as beautiful as the Valkyrie I'd seen. Who were, at that point, let's see... your mom, Vigdis, Kijana, and Lenneth. And you said something like, 'Uh, yeah, I guess.' Closer to home you had Achika, Reiyna, Dorothy, the Utonium girls - at least one of whom has a -huge- crush on you, by the way, you probably never noticed... " "She told me," Corwin put in. "Last spring." "Oh. Well, good for her. That kind of thing takes guts, believe me. Did you at least kiss her?" Corwin went a little red, recalling that in fact he hadn't, but it had been a near thing. "Uh... well, no." Utena shook her head with a patient sigh. "Typical," she said. She leaned back to look at Anthy across his back. "Hopeless. He's hopeless." Anthy nodded sagely. "Entirely," she agreed, then sipped her tea and added, "Nearly as much so as you, my love. You're very well- matched." Corwin chuckled. "Zap," he murmured cheerfully, offering a fist for her to bump without looking. "ANYway," Utena plowed on, ignoring the point scored, "then there's your 'cousin' - " "Mirai?!" Corwin blurted. "When you and I met, and don't think I don't know where you're going with this, she was -eleven.-" "Yeah, you didn't hear the quotation marks," Utena went on breezily, "as I was saying, your 'cousin' Kaname. She's a lot like me, you know. Enough so that I'm shocked she didn't have you walking into doors long before I ever came along." Corwin turned to face Utena, leaving his right elbow on the railing and putting his left hand on her shoulder. "Wait, where -are- you going with this?" he wondered, sounding a little concerned now. She smiled. "I'm not jealous and I'm not feeling inadequate," she assured him. "It's just a thing I'm trying to -explain- to myself. You've grown up around all these incredible girls and women. A lot of your -best friends- are girls and women. And yet -I'm- the first one who ever made you realize why there's a difference? Without trying to, or even realizing I -had- for a while?" She shrugged. "Having a hard time getting my head around that lately." "Is it really so difficult?" Anthy wondered mildly. She crossed behind Corwin, putting her teacup down on the table as she passed it, and went around to the far side of Utena, then took her arm and leaned against her shoulder. "You revolutionize people's lives, Utena. It's what you -do.-" "Y'know, she's got a point," said Corwin, facing front again and doing his best to get his left arm around both of them.
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