#Teran Williford

[thegoddesswater]

🎃 Trick or Treat? 🎃

-@forthesanityofstorytellers

Treat!

I offer you this small snippet of Blaise and Teran from Miadhachain Legacy.

Blaise hadn’t actually expected his parents to let him go to Teran’s, but whatever Teran had said had clearly convinced them to let him leave. A couple hours later, with his bag fit to bursting, filled with probably far too much stuff, Blaise sat in the passenger seat of Teran’s beat up coupe as they sped away from their parents’ house. “Teran?” Blaise ventured, “Can you tell me what’s going on yet?” They sat at a light, and Blaise watched his brother’s fingers drum anxiously on the steering wheel. Teran didn’t look at him, kept his eyes fixed on the car in front of them. “When we’re home.” The use of ‘home’ to refer to Teran’s assigned apartment was not lost on him. Something uncomfortable twisted its way up from Blaise’s stomach, settling like a hard lump under his collarbone. Teran spared a glance for Blaise. “You brought as much as you could? School work, clothes, toothbrush, all that?” “Yeah. I still don’t know why.” “I’m invoking my guardianship. Did you leave anything with Maman et Papa that we need to go back for?” Blaise stared at Teran. “You... Why couldn’t you tell me that?” “Would it have changed anything in what you brought?” That was what he was worried about? That Blaise hadn’t brought all of his important belongings? “Not really, but... I don’t understand.” “It’s a paperwork thing. I’m requisitioning a bigger place and I can get that with you as my dependant.” “You took me from Maman et Papa for a bigger apartment?”

[thegoddesswater]

Jance and Teran?

Part of me is surprised that you managed to pick folks from the same project, considering I made no effort to label which stories any of those characters are from in the tags.

These two are kind of fun, because you get a different answer about their relationship depending on who you ask. They go way back because Teran was childhood friends with Jance's brother.

Jance likes Teran well enough; he doesn't think of Teran as exactly a 'Top tier' friend, but ranks him higher than an acquaintance. To Jance, he's the kind of pal that you'd invite to your wedding because you'd feel weird if you didn't, but you also wouldn't be exactly distraught over having them RSVP "No" to that. Teran is someone Jance is completely happy to see at an evening out with friends, but not someone he actively tries to spend time with. He thinks Teran's pretty reliable and an all-around solid guy, who maybe takes things a little too seriously.

Teran, on the other hand, tolerates Jance. Jance is just overall too much for him - too loud, too squirrel-brained, too present; if they were dogs, Jance would be a Jack Russell Terrier to Teran's Saint Bernard. If Teran was given the choice between a last-minute, overnight shift in an understaffed maternity ward where he alone is responsible for 17 colicky newborns, or two hours alone with Jance Rios, he'll take the babies - at least he gets paid for that. When Teran thinks too hard about the fact that Jance was considered the de facto "responsible older child" for their gaggle of neighbourhood kids growing up, he marvels that all of them survived to adulthood.

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