[Open] I don't think you're ready for this jelly

[justice_is_blond]

WHO: Alistair and Anders and YOU
WHAT: Alistair tightropes. In a dress. While singing.
WHEN: Kingsway 21st
WHERE: Camp Shady Fucker
NOTES: There will probably be some awful sap because this is Nate's birthday, you've been warned. Otherwise, no warnings anticipated.

It's not publicized, but word has a habit of getting out.

Zevran has publicized matters, and now it's time for some morale boosting. There's a low tightrope stretched between two trees with a great many chairs, stumps, and logs set up as seating options. Today is the day for someone to earn himself new boots, shirts, and a shield, and it promises to be a show.

Come on up, pull up a seat, and enjoy the entertainment.

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[ombranera]

"..." Unaccustomed as he is to being in anyone's company long enough to both take them for granted and care whether or not he hurts their feelings? Zevran's eartips flick downward momentarily, the only true tell of his discomfiture. Unlike before he hadn't meant to wound Alistair's pride, hadn't intended to cause upset.

Sitting on it for a week is not in the cards.

"I apologize." These words do not become easier the more he speaks them- but he says them none the less. "It did not occur to me that you would find it..."

He gestures, vaguely, and returns his arms to their crossed position over his chest. Anyone else he would laugh it off. Anyone else? He'd pretend not to be bothered. Here he is...bothered that he has bothered Alistair. "It will not happen again."

[byblow]

That's plenty. No groveling required. Alistair crooks one side of his mouth up. It's not a full smile, but a quick look, hello, not angry, before he takes a hasty bite off the skewer so he can set it down again.

He needs both his hands to hold Lucci's legs, just in case, while he makes a dragon roaring noise—a quiet one, because for only the second time in his life, after the Landsmeet, he's been the focus of more attention than he knows what to do with and doesn't want any more—and swoops forward to crash-land the baby (and his own face, necessarily) against Zevran's chest.

Gently.

Mostly gently.

[ombranera]

The smile isn't what sells the forgiveness, but the eyebrows. The faint pinch and slide, the quirk that smooths out of a furrow. All is not precisely well, but all is better than it was before.

He will take it.

Lucci roars and giggles along with Alistair, thudding into his papa's chest- Zevran hooks an arm around them both. One about his son's back, one about Alistair's shoulders- and if he happens to bring his cloak with him to offer them all a moment of privacy? That is simply him trying to keep his boys warm. "You are going to spoil him."

[byblow]

"Good," Alistair says, though the word is smothered against Zevran's shirt. He turns his head sideways to add, "That's what uncles are for."

He thinks. He's pretty sure. Insofar as Alistair was ever anywhere close to spoiled, it was Teagan doing the spoiling, rolling him in mud or spinning him by his arms and tossing him off the docks--in a good way! a fun and voluntary way--when he visited.

And speaking of spoiling, he doesn't move. Give him a minute.