"Girlfriend," Araceli confirms with a big grin then untucks half a dragon's tooth from inside her shirt to show. "First day coming and we'll have been together two years now and I came here about...the end of Harvestmere."
Sometimes it catches up with her that it's really been two years, that she's going to hit that mark of two whole years somewhere that isn't her home. That she's made a life for herself with these people and in this place, worked just as hard as any of them (harder, she'd argue, some in the world have to work at least twice as hard to prove themselves twice as much) without making a spectacle of it. Keeps her nose down, does all that she can.
"Korrin has the other half of this, it's a tradition for some of her people to split a dragon's tooth so that no matter how far apart you are, you always have a piece of the other with you, I had a mermaid ring made for her, that's a thing you give to a woman where I come from." And then she seems to realise she's gushing a little bit to a girl who just asked her to confirm if she did indeed say girlfriend and she stops, seeming to realise that, not embarrassed exactly but a little self-conscious at rambling. "Sorry, she's away just now seeing her parents in Wycome and I'm used to seeing her all the time, you didn't ask for all of that she's just...incredible? She's a force of nature in the best way."
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Sometimes it catches up with her that it's really been two years, that she's going to hit that mark of two whole years somewhere that isn't her home. That she's made a life for herself with these people and in this place, worked just as hard as any of them (harder, she'd argue, some in the world have to work at least twice as hard to prove themselves twice as much) without making a spectacle of it. Keeps her nose down, does all that she can.
"Korrin has the other half of this, it's a tradition for some of her people to split a dragon's tooth so that no matter how far apart you are, you always have a piece of the other with you, I had a mermaid ring made for her, that's a thing you give to a woman where I come from." And then she seems to realise she's gushing a little bit to a girl who just asked her to confirm if she did indeed say girlfriend and she stops, seeming to realise that, not embarrassed exactly but a little self-conscious at rambling. "Sorry, she's away just now seeing her parents in Wycome and I'm used to seeing her all the time, you didn't ask for all of that she's just...incredible? She's a force of nature in the best way."