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[iniquiticity]

Fic meme: 19 (things you said when we were the happiest we ever were) + any HOTE characters. Or Rhodin/Conju if you can’t decide

 

Conju looked up at the sound of his window opening and the curtain being pushed aside. Sunlight and the smell of the ocean spilled into his room, and it illuminated Rhodin from behind: dark tunic, his long-grey-streaked hair pulled back, his youthful face.

"You can't knock, like a normal person?" he asked, putting down the embroidery loop and turning more fully in his chair to take in his friend.

"I don't even have to unlock the window anymore," replied Rhodin, tying the curtain open. Conju was reminded of how, a long, long, long, long time ago an emperor had glowed from within. That emperor had been suffering; this quasi-divine presence, Conju was certain, not so much.
 

Rhodin came over and sat in the chair nearest to Conju. He smiled his easy smile, and then he bent to kiss Conju's cheek. Conju reached over, pulling the band out of Rhodin's hair so it fell past his shoulders. He loved running his hand through Rhodin's pin-straight hair, braiding it in steadily more complex patterns and twists, and the longer it go the more he was able to play with it. Rhodin closed his eyes and rumbled, content, in his throat.

"Sit," Conju said, and Rhodin settled in front of him, his shoulders lax. Conju kissed the top of his head and revealed a long brush with the pick at the other end, separating the sections. "Did you hear what happened at the bank yesterday?"