#and Matthias Nonius hitting back with a rather more tender version of ''jokes on you I'm into that shit''

[hedge-rambles]

"I wield a sword but you wield your heart. Your devotion to my memory could call my soul through a thousand years of death, and past that you've treated me with care and devotion still. How could you think I'd not look at you twice?"

So I kinda keep this blog safe but, uh, I'm legit proud of having written this?

Do you think Ortus Nigenad deserved better?

Do you have strong feelings about him and Matthias Nonius?

Do you want to read 7k words of finely crafted emotional interaction with love and mutual caring and tenderness and also they do the sex?

Do you want three new lines of ennameter poetry used for both in story expansion to the concept of magic and also a very stupid pickup line?

Do you want to see a man who thinks he's unloveable finding out that he is truly not?

Ortus and Matthias living on past the battle in the river because ??? but they have each other?

Well boy oh boy have I written the fic for you!

Yes, on the weekend I wrote an attempt at Noniad smut in the form of Ortus writing a self-insert Otrus/Matthias poem in ennameter, badly, because I didn't really get it until after I was done. But I liked the wee story I constructed so I decided to write a new version of it in prose, with context, and more insight, and so I sat down and churned out seven thousand words of what I'm going to call "actually good writing". Tbh outline's the same but the actual everything is quite different to the poem.