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yes, but they evaporate when i dismiss them.

[ ...hmm. ]

i can stock up on pee pads.

I'm drawing the line at tigers. The neighbours think we're weird enough.

...they do?

i guess that's fair. we can get very loud sometimes.

yes dogs, no tigers? what about an elephant?

Edited 2025-10-02 17:20 (UTC)

Well, when you consider that two teenagers turned up one day with four children? It's fine, they've grown to like us. I think.

A real elephant? Do we need a bigger house? That's one way to find new neighbours.

Edited 2025-10-02 17:26 (UTC)

i'm pretty sure one of the aunties is convinced i'm a girl. they're just as weird, they could just ask.

maybe it doesn't help that neither of you look old enough to have had kids.

why don't you both have our names changed?

If making up gossip entertains them then who am I to stop it? They used to give us such strange looks. Now they're used to us.

To what?

to either of your names. it would cut down on a lot of the questions we get when we're out. especially from the rude folks.

[ he's gotten enough questions about either parent picking him up from the school. it doesn't bother him, it doesn't, but it gets frustrating to keep dismissing the same questions over and over from people who have no business asking. ]

Oh.

( Oh. )

I suppose neither of us really wanted to overstep. You had families before. That's still important.

my dad left when i was three. mikki's mom left when she was five. i'm pretty sure she took my father's money with her when she left. how are they important?

Do you feel like we're less of a family because we have different names?

[ does he? ]

neither of you are planning on having biological children.

No.

I think our family's big enough.

( He will be adopting Yuta the minute they find him though. Yuji too, by way of association. )

Do you want more siblings?

i think i'd like at least one brother. i always lose during movie night.

[ three girls against one emo boy, he never stood a chance. ]

Which one more? A brother or a dog?

...geto-san, are you pregnant?

That's not a skill I possess, no matter how many times Satoru pets my belly and says he can feel the curses wiggling.

where do they go, though? i've never seen your domain before.

( Don't ask him, he doesn't like to think about it. )

I've been focused elsewhere.

[ they do look uncomfortable to swallow. ]

maybe we could work on it together? my domain is unstable, too. it's always flooded.

We can, if you'd like.
Though wouldn't you prefer Satoru? He took to it quickly.

his domain is suffocating. it both repels and absorbs everything.

[ it's what megumi imagines standing in a singularity would feel like. ]

besides, you can meet the other shikigami in my domain.

I can.

All right. When? After the Great Dog Debate?

only if you're comfortable with it. i've argued against corgis, for what it's worth.

We could have dressed one up.
( • ᴖ • ｡)

( Megumi raised by dumb and dumber. )

they get a lot of health problems because of their shortened legs and weird body shape.

they are cute but they also die pretty randomly.

[ what a depressing child. ]

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