(October 10, 2025)

Simple Moments Made Awkward

Day 30, Month 4
Endergaln

Ethan finds Sav wandering in the streets during the rest shift and accosts her with the next move in their now purely-mental dragonchess game. Sav shows off the work they’ve done on disguising their accent, sounding a little more like a working-class Galnian.

Sav vents about how this ought to be the best time of their life, but they’re just jumpy and uneasy and unable to sleep well most days. Ethan advises taking it easy and just taking a moment to savor the immediacy of the moment, of something very simple but fundamental, like a hot soup. Sav takes the opportunity to make Ethan pay for some meat skewers from a nearby meat-on-a-stick vendor, and Ethan takes the opportunity to prank the vendor by pretending to cut and run.

Confusion sorted, they stop to savor the moment, chewing the overdone meat in companionable silence. After some time spent just regarding Ethan, Sav starts to go red, then pale, then runs off with a few weak words.

Ethan enjoys the remaining silence and food alone.

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