@daisyscape asked: River will never know how Rielle deals with Graves checking in on him like this. Maybe he should start charging Rie every time he’s caught - just compensation for hearing Graves’ mouth. He’s partly tempted to just stay under the covers, pretending to be asleep, in some effort to preserve this ruse of theirs, but he has a feeling Graves will see through him anyways. “I’m feeling a bit under the weather, Graves,” River replies from under the covers in a terrible impersonation of Rielle, not that he’s actually trying to come off has convincing. “Feeling sick without my boyfriend, Jade, whom I love so very much and can barely go a day without seeing. I’m definitely not thinking of sneaking out to go see him or anything.”
the fact that rielle has yet to realize it’s easier on himself and graves if he just tells graves when he’s slipping away to night raven college instead of insisting on this futile secrecy is astounding. graves can count the number of times he’s not found out the truth on one hand. on two fingers, to be exact.
and so here the vice housewarden is, staring at the bundle of blankets that makes up one of the older nerites’ brothers’ poor disguise... if it can even be called that. “ of course you’re not thinking about sneaking out to go see him because you already have... river, ” he replies, his voice flat with a remarkable lack of amusement.
“ is rielle gone for the weekend, or just the night?? ”