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✉️ text — un: homelander.

[breeding]

do you ever get to ride the dragons?

[ No, this is not a euphemism; yes, this is going somewhere. ]

[unapparent]

I have not as yet, though Aemond would like me to.

[breeding]

[ Of course the kid would, but that's not the thing on his mind— ]

i can't give you that, exactly, but
if you ever wanted to go for a little flight?

[ What he doesn't say is that it's less a whim than— well, a whim on the back of what she's had to deal with recently, with Helaena's disappearance. (The situation with Tim and Aemond is still, blissfully, unknown to him.) ]

in case you need a distraction.

[unapparent]

Oh!

[ unexpected. sweet, too, like rhaenyra begging her to join on dragonback. ]

You would not drop me, even for a jape?

[ only halfway teasing... ]

[breeding]

never dropped anyone before, wouldn't dream of doing it to you.

[ Now, is the assertion that he's never dropped anyone before true ...

The important thing is that he has a better sense of his limitations here, now, but that is both 1) not something he wants to put down in his text (mostly for the sake of not acknowledging there's anything wrong with him) and 2) something he realizes is not necessarily comforting to hear. ]

[unapparent]

I shall hold on tight, regardless. To be safe.

[ 🥰 ]

[breeding]

[ o ....... ]

tomorrow, around lunch? once it gets a little warmer.

[unapparent]

A date, then.

[ a beat. ]

I’m not certain I’ve had one before.

[breeding]

seriously? the belle of the ball still hasn't gone on a date?

[ There are two wolves: one, an inflation of ego superseding the undercurrent of jealousy he's held at bay; second, a spike of anxiety, though he'd never call it that, over where the theoretical bar is. ]

lucky me. i'll have to make it count.