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“Kaveh.”
“And he—huh? Yes?”
“You do realize that was Alhaitham, right?”
A long pause. “Who?”
Tighnari’s palm meets his face. “Sorry, of course you of all people wouldn’t care to know about these things.” He clears his throat. And then, “Prince Alhaitham.”
A beat. “Oh.”
In which Kaveh is a tailor indebted to Dori, Alhaitham is the Prince of Sumeru, and they meet at a masquerade. Or, a little twist on the Cinderella trope.
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When Kaveh announces that he’ll need to temporarily stop taking suppressants, Alhaitham assumes that he must be an omega. After all, that’s the only logical reason that Kaveh would have pretended to be a beta for all this time. It’s the only logical reason that Kaveh would ask Alhaitham, an alpha, to leave the house for two weeks.
Except Alhaitham has made a rare miscalculation—and helping Kaveh will be much more difficult than Alhaitham expected, when his own instincts keep pulling him in two different directions.
“To clarify,” Alhaitham says, “you’re saying you’ll feel safer if I’m not here. Do I have that correct?”
“That—that’s not exactly what I said.”
“You said that you don’t know if it’s safe. That implies a degree of uncertainty, which means that you’ll feel less uncertain—and therefore safer—if I’m not around.” When Kaveh doesn’t respond, Alhaitham adds, “I’m just making sure I understand the situation correctly.”
“To be honest,” Kaveh says, “I don’t think you understand the situation at all.”
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19 Oct 2023
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“I’m not embarrassed,” Alhaitham says, scowling as he shuts the door behind him and starts working on taking off his boots. “If anything, you should be embarrassed.”
“About what?” Kaveh asks, nose in the air even as he starts toeing off his shoes, and then wants to take the question back; he doesn’t need to hear Alhaitham’s answer.
“You were jealous.”
Kaveh splutters, face heating up. “I wasn’t — it wasn’t jealousy, Alhaitham. Don’t think of yourself so highly.”
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- Part 3 of three-body problem