between the three children of heda, blixen falls firmly somewhere in the middle of the scale re: formality -- not as laid back as the perpetually goofing off bobby, but certainly not a buttoned-up goody two-shoes like artaax. she snorts a little at seri's teasing and grumbles, "too long, if you ask me." considering she'd been a glorified babysitter for the war effort.. maybe she'd feel differently if she'd actually gotten in on the action. "i got stuck watching my baby cousins even though mother came back early," she says, somewhere between explanation and complaint, and sighs.
"how was it here?" part of her - a big part - wants to ask about arrille, wants to know if there was any sign before he left. but seri probably hadn't even seen him. nomi had made him stay on the outskirts, hadn't she?
seri doesn't tell her anything really. no news is usually good news, right? though it doesn't do much to settle her worries about arrille, she doesn't get a chance to dwell before the kru asks her about furi. oh, hell, they had talked about that before, hadn't they. she squirms for a minute, wondering if it's okay to answer, but the emotion gets the better of her and she blurts: "i told her how i felt about her -- well, first i realised how i felt about her, of course, but i told her and -- oh, yeah, before that we did sorta talk about the reason we fought, though i didn't really figure it out 'til i figured out how i felt 'cause it was 'cause i was jealous of rose all along!"
she takes a breath. embarrassment floods her as she realises how much she's divulged, but, well, there's no going back now. her gaze drops to her paws as she continues, her voice returned to normal. "um, so i told her before - we parted for our jobs in the war, and long story short, we're together now." it hasn't occured to blixen yet that furi might have interpreted the events that unfolded a bit differently than her. she told her she liked her, furi basically accepted, now they're dating and they'll figure out the rest later. right?
"yeah!" blixen says giddily, unoffended by seri's shock -- hell, she's shocked and she's the one who brought it up. "together together - though i guess we haven't like, said we're mates yet. at least not out loud?" the redhead pauses, feeling a momentary ripple of doubt. it passes as quickly as it comes and she shakes her head, grinning. "but i don't care, all that matters is we both feel the same and we're together." in the afterglow of that fact, even their shared crush on rose feels so silly and distant now.
seri's question confuses her at first - she says, "well, you," and then pauses, realising maybe it's the girl's way of finding out how secret they're being. hm. "i haven't told anyone else yet," blix explains, "dunno about furi. i don't care who knows, though." she should tell her parents officially come to think of it - oh, but she wants to do that with furi, so she should wait.
seri's praise earns her a big beaming smile from the redhead, who despite everything is still riding that new-relationship high. "thanks," she says, laughing a little, "i do feel kinda dumb for not figuring it out sooner -- my feelings, i mean, but i'm not good at.. feelings, honestly." blixen winces slightly as she admits it. she's glad to have wolves like seri and tirgatao in her life who can do the feelings work that she sucks at -- and furi, too, furi seems better at feelings, having them and all of that. not that blixen doesn't have feelings, because she has them constantly, they're just always confusing and running together and impossible for her to name.
except for like, angry, she understands angry. anyway. "uh, so, thanks for talking it out with me before," the gona adds with a shy duck of her head, "i guess arrille did one thing right, bringing you along with him." she flashes seri a playful smile, feeling pretty good about life.