patience

[calescent]

Alser's granddaughter has the same suggestive "power" blessing from her first set of three that Kiri has. Her other blessings aren't torz either - flexibility is coru, loyalty is hunti - but she is torz, and Alser's current best guess for a successor. She's about the elder prince's age, just a little older than Kiri. Alser asks Kiri if he might visit her at home with this grandchild-of-interest in tow.

Kiri says sure, why not.

And so Alser and Patience Frothen - who is only named for the blessing of patience, and does not wear it in her hair - comes to the house not too long after the princes do.

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[calescent]

"Which Fr- oh, you must be Patience. Hi!"

[salt_of_the]

"That's me! It's nice to meet you, since you are why I am here and everything. I didn't even know when we started that Hector and Isten were going to be here, Grandpa told me that you'd made a standing invitation but I didn't expect to overlap."

[calescent]

Kiri glances at the prince when Patience says "Hector".

[pythbox]

He makes a little bit of a face and shrugs a little bit of a shrug.

[calescent]

"Anyway. Patience, did your grandfather warn you about getting too near me?"

[salt_of_the]

"Well, he told me about it, and I probably won't braid your hair, but I'm not going to freak out about little bits here and there," shrugs Patience.

[pythbox]

The prince giggles. "Braiding people's hair sounds fun, though! Hey Kiri, can I braid your hair sometime?"

[calescent]

"Sure," laughs Kiri. "You can do that."

[pythbox]

"Great," beams the prince. He skips over to Kiri and hugs her.

[calescent]

As long as he's there she has a look at what she thinks of Patience calling him "Hector".

[pythbox]

He does not like it, but it happens a lot anyway and will continue happening regardless of how much he doesn't like it; Kiri's family is an exception to a general habit of not correcting people in case word gets around to his father - the consequences of which would probably be worse than people calling him Hector a lot.

[calescent]

Kiri elects not to bring it up aloud in front of Patience, who she does not know well enough to know of where that loyalty coin in her hairclip points.

[pythbox]

Anyway, he's mostly not focused on it right now; mostly he is focused on hugs. Hug hug hugs.

[calescent]

Plenty of hugs, yes.

[salt_of_the]

Awwwww.

[pythbox]

On a whim, he bounces over to Patience and asks, "Do you want hugs too?"

[salt_of_the]

"Sure!"

[pythbox]

So he hugs her.

[salt_of_the]

Patience turns out to be highly huggable.

[pythbox]

That is excellent. He is so pleased. Hug hugs!

[calescent]

Kiri goes around them to head out of the library to greet the current torz prime.

[pythbox]

"This library is really great," says the prince, still hugging Patience. "Me and Kiri are learning Soechin from it and it's fun."

[salt_of_the]

"Learning Soechin is fun? How do you make it fun?"

[pythbox]

"By just liking it, I think," he says after some consideration. "And by not having teachers because teachers are boring."

[salt_of_the]

"Oh, I guess that would probably help, wouldn't it."