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The fluffy prince opened the door and stepped out. "Queen! I'm glad you're here! Please, do come in."
Queen entered the office. It was rather small and simple, with a chair, a desk, and a stack of documents, along with a cup of green tea on the desk, presumably for Ralsei.
"You can have a seat right there!" Ralsei said. There were two chairs opposite the desk. One was already occupied by a tall, skinny, blue Darkner, looking very nervous, and seeming to sweat even more profusely (or melt?) when Queen took a seat. A small, rotund, little spade sat on his lap, seemingly asleep.
"Thank you. Oh–Mr. Kaard? Could you wake up Lancer?"
Rouxls shifted in his seat a little. He tapped Lancer on the head. "Waketh up, mine Prince. We art about to begin."
Lancer stirred. "Hmm?" He looked around, and lit up when he noticed Queen. "Girldad!"
"Hello Lancer How Was Your Charging Session" Queen replied, smiling.
"It was fun! I had a cool dream about candy. And salsa. And worms! And I ate it all!"
"You Ate Worms"
"Yeah! Why?"
Queen's visor filled with red question marks. Ralsei noticed the confusion and decided to steer the conversation to where it needed to go.
"Queen, I understand that you came here to file for Lancer's adoption, correct?"
Queen nodded.
"But before we do that, you need to know that Rouxls is currently Lancer's legal guardian. And, of course, Rouxls, we can't just strip you of that. So the first thing I need to know is whether or not you wish to remain Lancer's legal guardian."
"Of-of courseth I do!" Rouxls replied, a bit defensively.
"Okay then! So, now we need to know if Lancer is okay with, um, Queen being his mom."
"Girldad," Lancer corrected. "And yeah, that would definitely be really cool!"
"Good! So now we have two options for how we can do this. We can either set up a custody system, or try coparenting."
Lancer cocked his head to one side in confusion. "What does that mean?"
"Well, in a custody system, you would spend time with Rouxls some days and Queen other days. For example, five days a week you could live with Queen, and on the weekends you'd live with Rouxls."
Lancer frowned. "But I want to hang out with both of them! They're both really cool people, and I don't want to have to go back and forth," he said.
"Lancer, hold on! I still haven't explained the other option. If you choose to coparent Lancer, you'd both raise him together. I-I'm not sure how the living situation would work, though. Lancer and Queen both have rooms in the castle, and Rouxls has his own house. So that would be up to you, really."
Queen and Rouxls were still mulling the whole thing over when Lancer enthusiastically replied "Yes! That one! That's the one I want to do!"
"Wait a minute! Queen and Rouxls still haven't decided yet!" Ralsei turned to the two of them. "What do you two think?"
"Well, I supposeth...if Lancer is happy..." Rouxls trailed off.
"The Coparenting Thing Probably"
"Great!" Ralsei said cheerily. "Queen, I'll need you to sign these." He took the top half of the stack of documents off and set it aside before pushing the other half over to Queen. "Here's a pen!" he chirped, placing a pen in her hand.
Queen buffered for a moment. "All Of Them"
"All of them! Well, the ones with blanks for signatures anyway."
"Are There Any ReCaptcha Tests" she asked. "I Have Trouble With Those"
"Re-recapcha? I'm sorry, Queen, I don't know what that means."
"So There Arent"
"I don't think so."
"Okay Good" She began signing the documents.
"Prince Ralsei?" Rouxls asked, seeming anxious. "What shalt thou hath me do?"
"Oh! Um...you should probably have a discussion with Queen after this about how coparenting will work. I don't really know much about it, and as far as I know, you're the first people to do it. So you should probably establish some ground rules or something. You might want Lancer there too, so he knows what'll be going on."
"Um...okayeth."
"Okie dokie!" Lancer said, tongue sticking out. "I can't wait!"
After Queen finished signing all the documents, she handed them over to Ralsei, who filed them inside his desk. He handed her a certificate of adoption.
"Lancer Rocksels Lets Go"
Lancer followed her out the door, bouncing along. Rouxls followed behind, trying to catch up. Ralsei heard him yell after them. "My nameth is ROUXLS!"