Ouroboros Spine kuli ⧫

Zane didn't believe her. Funny that the one time she came at someone with the total and honest truth, that was the time she got accused of bullshitting. 

Zane finished with a description of some dramatic scene, with some lovesick guy throwing himself off of a cliff to protect a girl's honor. That was supposed to be love? Lane wrinkled her nose. 

"Pass," she said, with a shake of her head. She was a medic, for fuck's sake-- the last thing she wanted was someone else's blood on her hands. If it ever came down to a choice between death or betrayal, Lane only hoped her hypothetical mate kept his back-stabbing knife sharp. 

"I'm sure it works for some people," Lane allowed. It might even work for her, someday. Who knows? "I'm just saying, why can't we make the rules for our marriage, instead of marriage making rules for us?" Lane had no words to describe the idea of open marriage, or any precedence or experience to base it on. She imagined that she was probably the first one to come up with the idea. 

Lane turned away, gazing out over the water. "I'm tired of pretending that I'm better than I am. It would just.. be nice to have someone I could be myself with." She wasn't looking for any more responsibilities. She wasn't looking to make anyone responsible to her. If that's what marriage had to be, then it wasn't for her. 

"What are you looking for, Zane?" Maybe Lane had put the cart before the horse here. Maybe, despite all of his joking, Zane was actually a traditionalist at heart. Maybe he was looking for the girl who would make him want to jump off a cliff, or whatever (was that really the ideal??). Since Kukutux had summoned her here, that meant that Zane had asked her to find him someone, for some purpose.. right?